Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2024

Amid Medicaid changes, the most relevant news to home care providers is the aforementioned 80-20 provision, which will force HCBS providers to direct 80% of reimbursement to direct care workers. “We National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. There have been multiple D.C.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Provider leaders see home care union demands as unrealistic. Private-pay home care is the exception, where agencies can pass additional wage costs onto the consumer. Home care unionization efforts ticked up prior to the pandemic, but slowed once COVID-19 began to spread. At least for now. Yes,” he said.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Before other states start to consider minimum wage increases for home care workers, it would be beneficial for them to understand what has – and hasn’t – gone well in New York. In the spring of 2022, New York legislators passed a law that gave home care workers an extra $1 per hour above the state’s $15 minimum wage.

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Home Health Care

JULY 20, 2023

Although the news will be greeted warmly by caregivers in the Golden State, experts in the home-based care space are worried the minimum wage increase will have adverse effects on providers. “It

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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. Over the years, Maxim said she has seen providers cutting corners firsthand when hiring accountants to put together cost reports.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Mostly, though, the Obama-era regulation has ended up decreasing the amount of live-in care that home care agencies provide. Live-in care used to be a less expensive way of getting 24-hour care,” Georgetown Home Care (GHC) CEO John Bradshaw told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2021

“I see home health activity picking up now, conversations are taking place now, meetings are taking place now,” Mark Kulik, managing director at The Braff Group, said this week at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference. Schabes said during the NAHC event.

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