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Hospice Fraud Back In The Spotlight, With New Data Also Raising Questions About Home Health Care

Home Health Care

A similar trend could be happening in home health care in one major county, U.S. In hospice, the surge of new providers and potentially fraudulent activities has been concentrated in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas. In home health care, it’s Los Angeles County. fell 12% over that nearly five-year window.

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Supporting Youth Behavioral Health through Crisis Receiving and Stabilization Facilities: New York Case Study 

NASHP

The behavioral health needs of youth across the country have increased substantially over the past decade, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to these challenges, states continue to build out their crisis continuum of care and consider innovative policy approaches to support children and adolescents.

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Supporting Youth Mental Health through Crisis Stabilization Facilities: Wisconsin Case Study

NASHP

Across America, the alarming increase in youth behavioral health needs is considered a public health crisis.[1] 1] The behavioral health system is challenged to meet the needs of youth, which has resulted in youth seeking treatment and services in emergency departments or institutional settings that inadequately address their needs.

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Shifting the Health Disparities Paradigm

NASHP

This report is one section of of Healthy People, Healthy States: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities. States are shifting the health disparities paradigm from the more narrow focus on chronic condition interventions to cross-agency/cross-sector approaches to identifying and addressing health disparities.

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NAHC’s Bill Dombi: Horizontal Integration, Workforce Innovation to Accelerate in 2022

Home Health Care

The end of 2021 brought a handful of key home health policy issues to a temporary conclusion, including the congressionally secured delay to Medicare sequestration. HHCN is pleased to share the recording and transcript of our HHCN+ TALKS conversation with Dombi, recorded in late December. starting with Choose Home.

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July 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review

HIT Consultant

2022 ushered in Act III of the market’s latest transitionary period: The Post-Inflation Era. Act I: Pre-COVID (Pre-2020) Act II: Post-COVID (2020 – 2021) Act III: Post-Inflation (2022 – ?). The amount of investment going into Health IT is nearly half the Post-COVID peak, but still 27% higher than Pre-COVID levels.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

Private equity is rapidly moving to reshape health care in America, coming off a banner year in 2021, when the deep-pocketed firms plowed $206 billion into more than 1,400 health care acquisitions, according to industry tracker PitchBook. FFL Partners and Kool Smiles had no comment but denied liability in court filings.

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