Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stated its objective to enroll all of its Medicare beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030. million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries are assigned to an ACO. Currently, roughly 13.2 We’d like to try it that way.’ We have these conversations.”

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SCAN Group has entered into the in-home senior primary care space with the launch of Welcome Health. Dr. Scott Weingarten will serve as CEO of the independent primary care medical group moving forward. Welcome Health will care for predominantly Medicare Advantage patients,” Weingarten told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Heidi Schwarzwald, chief medical officer at Signify Health Home and Community Services, told Home Health Care News. Of course with our Medicare Advantage population, that involves a large part of that population. You can prevent worsening complications, as well as remove barriers to access to care.”

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 28, 2022

Johns Hopkins Home Care Group is attached to one of the top health systems and educational institutions in the country. It’s often a place where health care breakthroughs take place and new home-based care ideas are formed. How has home-based care advanced over the past few years, from your perspective?

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In order to become less dependent on fee-for-service business, home health providers have begun to take on more risk. That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. These areas are chronic care management and preventative care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 12, 2022

More than ever, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are stepping up and responding to the demand for more access to care in the home setting. This, in turn, has created an avenue for home-based care providers to lean into new opportunities.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Half of the patients were treated at their homes and half were treated at a SNF. The pilot was similar to the one the same researchers performed about five years ago, which was the country’s first randomized control trial of hospital-level in-home care. Now we need to do the rest of the work to replicate it in a bigger sample.”.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 11, 2022

In December, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) shared its strategy for “revolutionizing” the consumer experience through its primary care, payer, digital and omnichannel health services offerings, including home health care. Its payer arm, Aetna, is similarly focused on the home. “I In its 2022 guidance released on Dec.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

With the annual enrollment period just around the corner, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations are starting to tout what benefits they’re offering seniors for the upcoming year. MA is a form of Medicare that is administered by private insurers. Medicare open enrollment runs from October 15 to December 7, 2022. Humana Inc.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Kang is the former CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The Chicago-based WellBe offers home-based medical care services to patients who are facing multiple complex health challenges. Home health agencies existed then, and it was covered by Medicare. I was at CMS from 1995 to 2002.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a new state-focused demonstration model Tuesday. One of the model’s primary objectives is to shift health care spending and utilization more toward primary and community-based care. The Washington, D.C.-based

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Two months later, the at-home primary care provider has announced its first partnership, with Independence Blue Cross, to serve Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries in Pennsylvania. Patina deploys primary care teams that conduct both in-person and virtual visits with patients.

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Home Health Care

MAY 23, 2023

Nasdaq: AHCO), a home medical equipment (HME) provider. AdaptHealth will become the “capitated provider of durable HME and supplies” for at least one million Humana Medicare Advantage (MA) members in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The partnership is a part of Humana’s overarching home- and value-based long-term care strategy.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Staffing shortages, rate cuts and Medicare Advantage penetration will continue to be trends in the home health market in 2024. Home health leaders are focused on mitigating margin compression, utilizing more technology, leveraging Artificial Intelligence, working smarter with MA plans and more in the new year. Those aren’t new.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – ConcertoCare , a value-based care provider of at-home care for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs raises $105M in Series B funding led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. At-Home Care Model to More Seniors with Unmet Health and Social Needs. Why It Matters.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Jamie Sharp, chief medical officer for Aetna Medicare. “We’re We’re kind of assuming a new landscape for the delivery of health care and moving away from acute,” Sharp told Home Health Care News. “I million Medicare members nationwide. That’s what those care counselors are about,” Sharp said.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2023, it owned close to 20% of the entire Medicare Advantage (MA) market, with about 5.8 Its health care services arm – CenterWell – includes pharmacy, home health care and primary care. CenterWell Home Health specifically has over 360 locations across 380 states. million members.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With enrollment up and more plans launching each year, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations have had to figure out how to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive field. For many, MA differentiation has meant embracing in-home care and actually acquiring, or investing in, provider partners.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care providers avoiding the shift to value-based care are running out of time and excuses. Home health providers are already under the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model, which is, by definition, a value-based care model.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

HUM (NYSE) leaders say the investments they’ve made in value-based payment models and at-home care capabilities continue to pay off. It continues to leverage its home health engine – CenterWell Home Health – to deliver on those value-based care initiatives. “In million Humana Medicare Advantage (MA) members.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Are they participating in co-management of these patients and families, who are living with serious illness, or are they assuming some sort of primary care role in providing palliative care?” For home- and community-based palliative care providers, this variability can be an advantage. “It

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Now, the Medicare Advantage insurer plans to expand its footprint to two additional states, opening new doors to potential home care partners in the process. Founded in 1977, Long Beach, California-based SCAN Health Plan is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, serving more than 220,000 members.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new proposed model that will undoubtedly affect home health providers, and also allow them the opportunity to get more involved in value-based care initiatives. TEAM would be yet another model furthering that goal, if enacted.

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Home Health Care

MAY 8, 2023

“The outstanding depth of his experiences and accomplishments as a leader within a variety of nonprofit and academic health care settings makes him the ideal person to lead Hebrew SeniorLife in its mission to empower seniors to live their best lives.” Nasdaq: MODV). PopHealthCare names new COO PopHealthCare has named Jill Langenfeld as COO.

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Home Health Care

MAY 4, 2022

That included the launching of “all-payer health products and services” to diversify the company’s growth portfolio and, more importantly, an “expansion of home health services.”. On its fourth quarter earnings call a month later, the company even flirted with the idea of getting into fee-for-service Medicare home health through acquisition.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2024

Devoted Health, a next-generation Medicare Advantage plan and tech-enabled startup , made a financial splash to end 2023 – announcing $175 million in new funding. The Massachusetts-based Devoted Health is an all-in-one health care company that delivers virtual-first care and insurance to primarily Medicare Advantage patients.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2022

Retail and technology giant Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) last month announced plans to acquire primary care innovator One Medical for an astounding $3.9 The transaction doesn’t immediately affect senior-focused in-home care providers, but it’s another major stepping stone on the path toward disrupting the current U.S.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

For close to a year now, Shetty has led Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) health care services division, which includes CenterWell Home Health, CenterWell Primary Care and CenterWell Pharmacy. Previously, he was the president of Steward Health Care System. Unlike many other leaders, he’s in the position to prove it.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Employees using Galileo avoid more expensive visits to in-person specialty, urgent or ER care 80% of the time. More than 85% of patients report improved health after receiving care from Galileo. From there, we established partnerships with both regional and national health plans to offer virtual-first care to their members.

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Home Health Care

MAY 26, 2022

“A few years ago, as our board was doing a strategic refresh, there was an acknowledgement that there are many ways to keep seniors healthy and independent,” Dr. Sachin Jain, president and CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, told Home Health Care News. Medicare Advantage is one way to do that, but it’s by no means the only way.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Humana divested the majority of CenterWell Home Health’s personal care and hospice footprint to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) last year. CenterWell has a home health arm and a primary care arm. In April, however, there have been a few notable home health transactions already.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

Wall Street has largely focused on CVS’s efforts to add primary-care practices and doctors to its payroll, though executives have also discussed their ambitions to expand its in-home health presence. agreed to buy the primary-care clinic operator for about $3.9 B last month. B last month.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 10, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Thanks to impactful, large-scale transactions over the last decade, the collective face of home-based care has changed forever. Traditional providers in both home health care and personal home care have merged. PE has always been involved in home care.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 14, 2023

One of the pillars of that plan is a comprehensive home-based care strategy, one that will be bolstered by its recent $8 billion acquisition of Signify Health. We’re envisioning a new landscape for the delivery of health care,” Jamie Sharp, VP and Medicare chief medical officer at Aetna, said.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

One of the biggest opportunities that home-based care providers have today is to dive deeper into patient engagement, according to SCAN Group CEO Dr. Sachin Jain. The number one value that I think all of us see with moving into the home is engagement, but we have a huge problem with it in American health care,” Jain said.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2023

What’s troubling is what they’re able to do that traditional home-based care providers may not be doing, Chapters Health System President and CEO Andrew Molosky said Tuesday during a panel discussion at the Home Care Innovation + Investment Conference in Chicago.

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