Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Artificial intelligence can help identify easy to miss patients who might be good candidates for a palliative or hospice care referral, a recent pilot at Mass General Brigham (MGB) revealed. | The pilot at Newton-Wellesley Hospital relied on an AI-driven tool from Radial.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2021

The post Transactions: Alivia Care Acquires Better Life Home Health; Charter Health Care Group Buys Generations Hospice Care appeared first on Home Health Care News. Contact us for more information. * per member. Already a member?

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The February 2023 quarterly refresh for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. For additional information, please see the FY2023 Hospice Wage Index Final Rule at [link].

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Healthy Debate

JUNE 23, 2020

Virtual care is probably the most visible and stark change. The COVID-19 global pandemic has led to many paradigm shifts in the delivery of healthcare.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

This weekly recap focuses on why the United States “stayed the unfavorable course” in Afghanistan, the Ohio train derailment, state data on gun deaths, and more.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 24, 2024

“We are excited to welcome Haven Hospice into BrightSpring, bolstering our existing hospice care line of business and expanding our hospice services into the CON state of Florida,” BrightSpring President and CEO Jon Rousseau said in a statement. Its 7,000 employees provide care across 30 states.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Everyone in home-based care wants to get further into value- and risk-based contracting. Some providers believe that honing in on just one or two core service lines – like home health and hospice care, for example – is the best way to go. No one can agree on the best way to do so.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

People who receive home health care during the last three years of their lives are more likely to utilize hospice care at the end of life. What’s more, these older adults were more likely to use hospice compared to individuals who have never used home health care.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“Additionally, if the plan’s policies restrict access to necessary treatments or fail to support the level of care required for patients, it becomes difficult to sustain the partnership.” Founded in 1966, Interim HealthCare provides home health care, personal care and support, hospice care and medical staffing services.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Through my work in revenue cycle management, I began to understand and appreciate the home care industry.

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Home Health Care

JULY 8, 2024

The Troy, Michigan-based company is already in 15 states and cares for over 70,000 patients under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs. It provides in-home primary care, as well as home health care, hospice care, palliative care, radiology and laboratory services.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 22, 2024

Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Compassus provides home health care, home infusion, palliative care and hospice care. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Gentiva provides palliative care, hospice care and other home-based care services via about 600 locations across 38 states. You’ve got to have data.”

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

“We are excited to welcome Haven Hospice into BrightSpring, expanding our existing hospice services into the CON state of Florida,” BrightSpring President and CEO Jon Rousseau said in a statement. ” Compassus provides home health, home infusion, palliative, hospice and home care services across 30 states.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 30, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Hospice care is for terminally ill patients who decide to forgo curative treatment and instead receive palliative care. Hospice care generally includes nursing and aide services, drugs, and supplies.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Alex Oosterveen, co-founder and CEO of Miami-based Caribou Health Technologies, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 29, 2023

Tennessee Quality Care serves an average daily census of about 1,800 patients through 17 locations, and was formerly owned by American Health Partners. The provider’s biggest service line is home health care, but it also provides private-duty nursing and hospice care. “We

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HIT Consultant

MAY 22, 2024

They aim to achieve this by: Earlier Intervention: Providing supportive care earlier in a patient’s journey, ensuring they receive the best services from the best providers at the most opportune time.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2022

This is its fourth of its acquisitions, one of which is Senior Helpers, which offers in-home personal care services. Advocate Aurora is building out its portfolio of technologies and services for its aging patients, including home health and hospice care.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Amedisys is one of the largest providers of home health and hospice care in the country. Its 521 care centers and 19,000 employees span 37 states and the District of Columbia. UnitedHealth Group’s Optum agreed to acquire Amedisys last June.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2024

The JV will be branded as Adena Home Health and Hospice, and will focus on caring for seriously and terminally ill patients in South Central and Southern Ohio. This is an exciting and significant step forward in our home health and hospice care delivery,” Adena Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Shaheed Koury said in a statement.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 13, 2023

Healthcare systems can now configure the use of any available standard rules for exchanging healthcare data (FHIR API) fields to generate greater reporting using the AMN Healthcare Language Services portal, which helps healthcare systems adhere to industry compliance and joint commission requirements.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Indiana Association for Home and Hospice Care (IAHHC) has introduced C.A.R.E. Creating Action and Resources for Employees) Connect, a new workforce support program for direct caregivers. Funding for the program is provided by UnitedHealthcare.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Based in Dallas, VitalCaring provides home health and hospice care to patients in the Southern U.S., The program provided personalized therapy to patients with cognitive disorders using Constant Therapy’s digital speech, language and cognitive therapy platform as part of its home-based services for selected patients.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Compassus provides a wide range of home-based care services, including home health care, home infusion, palliative care, hospice care and home-based high-acuity care. We know that most patients would benefit from being in hospice much, much earlier.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

When a patient is treated for a diagnosis associated with hospice care, but the physician participating in the patient’s treatment is not compensated by or employed by Hospice, a GV modifier is added to the claims. In this case, the doctor’s procedure had nothing to do with their training in hospice care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Ashley Gore, market leader at Chicago-based Help at Home, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

MAY 4, 2023

The combined company will now be able to deliver home health care, hospice care, palliative care, high-acuity care and infusion services, providing a genuine full continuum in the home. There are many reasons why this deal makes strategic sense. The overlap in home-based services makes sense.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The other is Optum, which is a diversified health care services provider that delivers primary, specialty, urgent, surgical and home health and hospice care to about 103 million consumers. The first is UnitedHealthcare, which is one of the largest insurance providers in the country.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 1, 2024

The Clearwater, Florida-based Empath Health provides hospice, home health care, palliative care, grief services, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), adult day services, primary care, physician services and more. It is the parent company of 17 affiliates and two philanthropic foundations.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2023

These donations are part of UnitedHealthcare’s commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of the most underserved and, particularly, the population aging at home.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Shelbie Kuhn, Indiana market leader at Help at Home, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Enhancing program integrity in noninstitutional care settings, such as home health and hospice care. In FY 2022, criminal charges were brought against 21 defendants for their alleged activities exploiting COVID-19 programs.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Aveanna provides pediatric care, home health care and hospice care to patients in 33 states. The company went public in 2021, transforming from strictly a pediatric care provider to a large home health and hospice enterprise through acquisition.

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