Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Home care executives are expecting a few separate things to shake up the market in the coming years. Consolidation in home care has lagged compared to home health care. One of the reasons why is that PE involvement in personal home care has also lagged. Sorrenti, CEO of Best Life Brands.

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Meditech

MARCH 21, 2023

Our home care spotlight continues as we kickoff the 2023 Home Care Symposium , our virtual event featuring three days of educational content. On this episode of the MEDITECH podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with one of our keynote speakers, Lindsay Doak , BerryDunn’s Director of Research.

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Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2022

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have considerably increased their home-based care arsenals over recent years. They’ve also diversified the types of home-based care they offer, and are finally finding ways for it to make economic sense in capitated models. Source: Institute for Accountable Care.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new rule that would make major changes to the way that home care workers are compensated under Medicaid. Anderson also noted that home care agencies working under Medicaid often vary in size. On Thursday, the U.S.

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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

APRIL 27, 2023

About a dozen years ago when Will Putman took over the business development side of Continuous Home Care, his dad — the co-founder of the company — had an unofficial benchmark nicknamed “blackjack.” Continuous Home Care is a Pennsylvania-based home health provider with about 350 employees.

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Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2022

If passed, the Home Modification for Accessibility Act would provide a boost to aging-in-place efforts, perhaps spurring greater partnership between home care companies and home-modification businesses. ??Already, TruBlue specializes in house care, home maintenance and safety modifications for seniors aging in place.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2022

Integrated Home Care Services hires new CEO. Integrated Home Care Services Inc. Indeed, the appointment comes on the heels of Integrated Home Care Services’ national expansion efforts. Currently, Integrated Home Care Services delivers home-based care to over 2.2

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Thanks to the injection of capital, Honor additionally plans to triple its overall research and development spend, which will surely help in its quest to fundamentally transform the highly fragmented $83 billion global home care market. That list includes funds and accounts advised by T. billion in home care services revenue.

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Home Health Care

MAY 31, 2022

Brandon Ballew, the CEO of AccordCare, is a former Kindred at Home executive. But as the home health industry changed, he saw increased opportunity on the non-medical home care side. HHCN: You’ve come from the home health space, having previously worked for Kindred at Home.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Ventricle Health’s home-based and virtually enabled care model can reduce the overall average annual cost of heart failure care by at least 30-50%.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

Both the changes to Nursing Home Care Compare and the publishing of the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.gov will take place on June 28, 2023. Affiliated entity names and ID numbers will be published in the ownership sections for each facility on Nursing Home Care Compare.

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Home Health Care

MAY 8, 2023

LightSpring Home Care appoints new managing director LightSpring Home Care has named a new managing director, Marcus Primavera. Previously, Primavera held leadership roles at Sevita Health, a provider of home- and community-based services. Nasdaq: MODV).

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Home Health Care

APRIL 6, 2022

Take into account the plans offering IHSS through either pathway, and that number jumps to 18% of all plans, or 952 total plans. We actually see that in-home support services has 952 plans offering it, which makes it the most common benefit offered, by plan count, of any of these benefits,” Tyler Cromer, principal at ATI Advisory, told HHCN.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Briggs sat down with HHCN to talk about: how summer camp led him to home care, the importance of empathy while working in the space and ways to make care more affordable for those who need it. My wife also works for the same home care agency — Family & Nursing Care. HHCN: What drew you to this industry?

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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. Amid the pandemic, the company approached CMS about expanding at-home care services, for instance. “We Currently, roughly 13.2 We have these conversations.”

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“The real elephant in the room for all of us is that I think most of us in this space are really trying to recruit our way out of a retention problem,” Kevin Kirkland, a senior business strategist with MissionCare Collective, said during a National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) webinar Thursday. “I Make it assignable.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Help at Home has made the decision to exit Alabama in-home personal care operations across the state, which was not made lightly,” Trenaman said in an email. “We We take our responsibility to provide the safest, in-home personal care services to our clients very seriously.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 18, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Transaction volume for home health, home care and other in-home care businesses dipped in 2023, with inflation, higher interest rates and global unrest contributing to the downturn. They don’t want to just let it park in a savings account in a bank.”

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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. “In

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2023

As home-based care continues to be the preferred care delivery method, it follows that companies delivering these services, as well as vendors in the space, would see growth as a result. The company touts in-home care as one of its key solutions. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies. 5000 ranks U.S.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The cost of home health care and home care increased more than it did in any other provider setting in 2021. s (NYSE: GNW) annual cost of care survey , which showed that while the cost of all long-term care services increased in the last year, home-based care was especially impacted by the turbulent labor environment.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Specifically, the study found that although nursing home residents only represent 2% of the Medicare population, they accounted for 22% of all COVID-19 cases among Medicare members. 31, 2020, accounting for the majority of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. The study period was between March 1, 2020, and Dec.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2022

A number of home-based care providers – and businesses in the aging services sector at large – are among some of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. One of these companies, connectRN, is a platform meant to aid nurses and other care professionals trying to find work. In fact, these companies recently grabbed a spot on Inc.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2024

In Medicare, duals make up about 19% of all enrollment, but they account for 34% of total spending. In Medicaid, duals account 30% of spending and 14% of enrollment. Compared to the broader Medicare population, there is a greater share of dual-eligible individuals in home health care.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 7, 2024

Providers with the means tried to gain more scale to better account for a landscape with the hospice carve-in. Home health providers will be the first ones to tell you so. But the hospice carve-in also mirrors the supplemental benefit ups and downs that home care providers have seen with MA.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2023

And some of the highest-performing, most innovative Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the program continue to generate savings by effectively using home-based care. The ACO is a consortium of health care organizations and provider practices in central and northeast Pennsylvania.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the main takeaway from a National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) webinar that took place on Thursday. Broadly, the employee retention credit was one of the main components of the CARES Act , which came to be due to the anticipated financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 10, 2024

We believe Jerry will be a terrific addition to the executive team at Aveanna as we continue our mission to revolutionize the way home care is delivered, one patient at a time.” Most recently, Thompson was an advisor at Getlabs, and Saul was national accounts director at Butterfly Network Inc.

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Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2023

It was something I dreamed about: value-based care, margins, the caregiver crisis. After a few months of looking for his next chapter, Primavera landed at LightSpring Home Care, a Philadelphia-based home care company that provides services in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Nasdaq: MODV).

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Specifically, in-home support services (IHSS) will be available in 1,091 MA plans in 2023, which accounts for almost one in every five plans. The growth for in-home support services is really significant,” Cromer told Home Health Care News. It’s really good news for home-based care providers,” Cromer said.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2024

Home Health Care News recently caught up with four C-suite executives to find out which leaders they believe are driving home-based care forward and why. Last month, HHCN talked to five leaders in the home care space. Home-based care is extremely personal and private.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 18, 2024

As at-home care has increasingly become a more popular model for health care, a significant portion of fraud convictions over the last 10 years have involved personal care services attendants. Source: OIG The OIG report cited 43 criminal convictions from home health agencies and 26 civil settlements in 2023.

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2024

Despite the response to the 80-20 provision, the rule can be seen as largely positive, according to Damon Terzaghi, director of medicaid advocacy at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Roughly, 90% of the rule is beneficial, and a good step forward for home- and community-based services,” he told HHCN.

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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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