NASHP

MARCH 14, 2022

Strengthening Care for People with Serious Illness Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid. People with complex or life-threatening conditions often need extra support to manage symptoms and make critical decisions about their care and quality of life. March 14, 2022.

Medicaid 94

Medicaid Rehabilitation Quality Assurance Patient Experience 94

Home Health Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

Researchers found that participants in MA, especially racial or ethnic minorities, are less likely to receive home health care and use fewer days of care at the end of life compared to those enrolled in traditional Medicare. The rate of home health care usage was 37.5% The researchers identified more than 1.7 were MA enrollees.

Medicare 52

Medicare Hospice Care Medicaid Nursing 52

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Bill Frist and Brad Smith – the former director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) – started the company. Eden Health acquires A Plus Hospice Care Eden Health of Northern Nevada has acquired A Plus Hospice Care. Both Paragon and CareBridge will fall under Elevance’s Carelon arm.

Hospice Care 85

Hospice Care Medicaid Medicare Nursing 85

Home Health Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

Headquartered in Atlanta, Aveanna Healthcare provides a range of pediatric and adult health care services, including nursing, rehabilitation, occupational nursing in schools, therapy services, day treatment centers for medically fragile and chronically ill children and adults, and home health and hospice services.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Rehabilitation Hospice Care Nursing 52

Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 13, 2023

GAO’s review of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for reporting and responding to abuse and neglect allegations found two gaps in the requirements for hospices, compared with requirements for extended care provided in hospitals and nursing homes.

Hospice Care 52

Hospice Care Nursing Medicaid Medicare 52

Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2024

Steel also pointed to a potential discrepancy in the way home health agencies are accounted for, and how HHS and the the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) tracks enrollment data. The post Discrepancies In Home Health Enrollment Data Raise Red Flags In Congressional Hearing appeared first on Home Health Care News.

Medicare 111

Medicare Medicaid Hospice Care Integration 111

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 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. What do you foresee as being different about the home health or home care industry looking ahead to 2025? My hope is that [the U.S.

Home Care 59

Home Care Hospice Care Regulations Medicare 59

Home Health Care

AUGUST 6, 2024

The main reasons behind a more aggressive acquisition strategy are the Medicaid Access Rule and value-based care opportunities, according to Addus CEO Dirk Allison. “We When Humana Inc (NYSE: HUM) fully acquired Kindred at Home, it kept the home health assets, and divested the personal care and hospice assets.

Medicaid 105

Medicaid Hospice Care Medicare Home Care 105

Home Health Care

MARCH 8, 2023

The Frisco, Texas-based Addus provides personal care, home health care and hospice care, but personal care makes up the great majority of its revenue. Overall, the company provides home-based care services to about 46,500 consumers through 202 locations across 22 states.

Medicaid 98

Medicaid Home Care Hospice Care 98

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We are really trying to elevate the awareness of home care, home health, and what all can be done in the home.” In the 2022 session, the state received a 7% increase in Medicaid rates for home care. We have Medicaid rates that are $40-$50 lower than commercial payers, or even Medicare,” he said. “As

Home Care 124

Home Care Medicaid Nursing Hospice Care 124

Home Health Care

MARCH 22, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving home health providers in North Carolina and Florida time to acclimate to the full implementation of Review Choice Demonstration (RCD). For providers in North Carolina and Florida, the rollout of RCD has meant keeping an eye out for key changes. . NAHC was not alone in its advocacy.

Hospice Care 118

Hospice Care Home Care Medicare Medicaid 118

Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has an important role to play in ensuring that hospices are providing necessary and critical, high-quality care to our Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life. Unfortunately, hospices are profiting from fraud at the expense of beneficiaries far too often.

Hospice Care 40

Hospice Care Integration Medicare Medicaid 40

Home Health Care

AUGUST 22, 2024

That may not always be evident, particularly in conversations with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Compassus provides home health care, home infusion, palliative care and hospice care. You’ve got to be innovative.

Hospice Care 105

Hospice Care Medicare Accountability Medicaid 105

Home Health Care

MARCH 5, 2025

WesleyLife at Home recently launched a palliative care program, providing one model for how at-home care providers can incorporate this service into their models. Palliative care is reimbursed under Medicare Part B, with supplemental insurance covering remaining costs.

Hospice Care 40

Hospice Care Nursing Primary Care Hospitals 40

Home Health Care

AUGUST 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decides to do with its home health final payment rule , industry experts believe providers need to drastically improve their cost reporting data. At the same time, Markette believes CMS is too far removed from the actual day-to-day realities of home health and hospice care.

Law Firms 98

Law Firms Medicaid Hospice Care Regulations 98

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Though home-based care is more in demand than it has ever been, home health providers are trying to navigate the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) slashing payment rates and Medicare Advantage’s growing influence. .” Tortorella joins the home health industry at an interesting time.

Urgent Care 115

Urgent Care Hospice Care Accountability Accountable Care 115

Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2023

Those trends are especially noteworthy amid looming payment rate cuts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). But what we’ve learned in the past few years is we actually can do more clinically complex care at home.” They are also causing home health providers to redefine operational best practices.

Hospice Care 105

Hospice Care Nursing Hospitals Medicaid 105

Home Health Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

VCU Health at Home’s service lines includes home-based primary care, primary and specialty telehealth appointments, remote patient monitoring as well as skilled home health and hospice care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care At Home waiver program. “We

Quaternary Care 98

Quaternary Care Hospitals Hospice Care Primary Care 98

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 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. Some of this care will be paid for through Medicaid or privately by families, but funding for home care is a pressing issue that needs to be addressed.

Home Care 98

Home Care Quality of Care Hospice Care Medicare 98

Home Health Care

MAY 12, 2022

Based in Atlanta, Aveanna Healthcare (Nasdaq: AVAH) delivers home health, private-duty services and hospice care to a broad range of patients in 30 states. Though it is now heavily invested in the senior home health space, it began as one of the nation’s largest at-home pediatric care provider.

Hospice Care 105

Hospice Care Nursing Medicaid Hospitals 105

Home Health Care

JANUARY 26, 2024

This topic – home health providers’ collective ability to accept patients – was directly addressed in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2024 final payment rule. The Dallas-based Enhabit is one of the largest independent providers of home health and hospice care in the country.

Medicare 110

Medicare Hospice Care Hospitals Medicaid 110

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave health systems and providers the ability to take hospital at home as a concept and run with it during the public health emergency (PHE). The Brentwood, Tennessee-based Compassus offers home health care services, plus infusion therapy, palliative care and hospice care.

Hospitals 105

Hospitals Hospice Care Home Care Nursing 105

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 17, 2022

Here’s a look at the contents: “Projections for the Future : Total annual payments for health care, long-term care and hospice care for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias are projected to increase from $321 billion in 2022 to just under $1 trillion in 2050 (in 2022 dollars).

Medicare 105

Medicare Hospice Care Primary Care Medicaid 105

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based Griswold Home Care currently provides personal care services across 200 locations in 30 states. The franchiser has seven corporate-owned offices and also offers hospice care at some of its locations, plus an array of other services aimed at enabling aging in place.

Home Care 105

Home Care Hospice Care Medicaid Medicare 105

Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 1, 2023

HHS-OIG conducted investigations resulting in 661 criminal actions against individuals related to Medicare and Medicaid, as well as 726 civil actions, including false claims, unjust-enrichment lawsuits, and civil monetary penalty settlements. Enhancing program integrity in noninstitutional care settings, such as home health and hospice care.

Telemedicine 52

Telemedicine Hospice Care Medicaid Medicare 52

Home Health Care

JANUARY 16, 2025

Hospice agencies evaluating new markets for organic expansion can compare a regions rate of hospice utilization to the national average to identify areas that are already saturated with hospice care. Outside of all of the data you analyze, what qualitative challenges are you hearing from industry leaders?

Medicare 52

Medicare Integration Hospice Care Quality of Care 52

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.

Hospice Care 52

Hospice Care Medicare Patient Experience Hospitals 52

Home Health Care

JULY 28, 2023

The Sunrise, Florida-based company – a part of Caring Brands International, which Sheets also was the CEO of – also provides personal care, hospice care, palliative care, pediatric care and staffing services. locations, it cares for about 200,000 individuals per year. Through its over 330 U.S.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Home Care Hospice Care Nursing 98

Home Health Care

MARCH 7, 2024

But the failure of hospice’s fit within VBID points to larger problems that exist somewhere between home-based care providers and MA plans. Along the way, hospice care and other tangential services were supposed to become a larger part of the program. VBID was designed to help modernize the MA program.

Medicare 105

Medicare Home Care Hospice Care Accountability 105

NASHP

MARCH 15, 2023

Palliative care can be an important component of these strategies. Palliative care is an interdisciplinary service addressing the symptoms and stresses of serious illness. Unlike hospice care, palliative care can benefit people with serious illness prior to end-of-life and is provided concurrently with curative treatment.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Primary Care Nursing Integration 52

NASHP

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the first notable accomplishments of this council included developing and launching the Texas Health and Human Services system supportive palliative care and hospice care websites, which include resources for patients, families , and professionals. Oregon leveraged its Patient-Centered Primary Care Home Program (PCPCH).

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Hospice Care Medicaid Rehabilitation 52

Briggs Healthcare

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Many Americans rely on hospice care for end-of-life support. million Americans received hospice care, with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) spending $20.9 billion on hospice services (MedPAC, 2021). High quality hospice services are critical to terminally ill patients.

Hospice Care 52

Hospice Care Quality of Care Integration Medicaid 52

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

“We really believe that that’s going to be the way that you succeed financially,” Ponder-Stansel told Home Health Care News. The Jacksonville, Florida-based Alivia Care provides home health care, hospice care, personal care, palliative care, advanced care planning and other services across Northern Florida and Southern Georgia.

Hospice Care 89

Hospice Care Prevention Medicaid Home Care 89

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Ed and his team are extremely well respected and have a strong reputation for delivering high-quality personal care services to seniors across Massachusetts,” Michael Trigilio, CEO of HouseWorks, said in a statement. Residential has managed home health and hospice services for Edward-Elmhurst Health for more than a decade.

Home Care 52

Home Care Healthcare Hospice Care Nursing 52

NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

There are a number of strategies state health officials can use as they build sustainable access to palliative care services in their Medicaid programs. Target Populations That Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services Use data to identify Medicaid enrollees with serious illness.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Quality Assurance Quality of Care Hospitals 52

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 31, 2022

This rule announces a potential future update to the CAHPS Hospice Survey, which is used to collect data on experiences of hospice care from primary caregivers of hospice patients. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare.

Hospice Care 52

Hospice Care Medicare Medicaid Hospitals 52

Briggs Healthcare

JULY 28, 2022

Today (July 27, 2022), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule (CMS-1773-F). For the Hospice Quality Reporting Program, the final rule provides an update on the development of a patient assessment instrument, titled Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE).

Hospice Care 40

Hospice Care Medicaid Medicare Healthcare 40