HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. DispatchHealth , a provider of in-home medical care raises $330M led by Optum Ventures with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital. MEDITECH, SeamlessMD Collaborate on Digital Health Integration.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Congressional Research Service, which analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) National Health Expenditure Accounts (“NHEA”) on the personal health expenditures for LTSS by payer, in 2021, an estimated $467.4 trillion spent on personal health care. [3] This represents 13.2%

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Policymakers are recognizing the need for payers to increase coverage and reimbursement for integrated behavioral health services, which entails primary care and behavioral health collaboration, to achieve better clinical and cost outcomes along with a healthier workforce.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 20, 2022

Soon to be Enhabit Home Health & Hospice, the Encompass home health and hospice business is one of the largest providers of those two services in the country. Meanwhile, Addus is mostly known for Medicaid-based personal care services, but has increasingly voiced its eagerness to get further into home health care and hospice. “We

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Home Health Care

MARCH 3, 2022

One thing that has remained constant, though, is the organization’s push towards a value-based health care system. For Signify, the recent completion of its Caravan Health acquisition — an accountable care organization (ACO) manager — is a major move toward driving more participation and success in value-based payment arrangements. “We’re

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 1, 2022

The home health industry at large is excited about the prospects of the Choose Home Care Act of 2021. It’s also – to some extent – been cast aside in home health providers’ minds, given all the mayhem going on related to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule for 2023. . “If

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

Now, there’s a better recognition of the value at-home care provides, and the appropriate company – VillageMD – to help support that kind of model. VillageMD] has a huge desire to expand home-based primary care,” Cornwell said at the event. As Village Medical at Home grows, it will become more integral to VillageMD.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Its current portfolio includes a wide range of home-based care companies, including: Mission Healthcare, a home health and hospice company; Medalogix, a home health predictive analytics platform; and Help at Home, one of the nation’s largest home care companies. The Washington, D.C.-based

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The information on this map comes from a 50-state survey of a variety of stakeholders, ranging from Medicaid officials to Community Health Workers, on their states’ approaches?to?integrating?CHWs integrating?CHWs ACO Accountable Care Organizations. CBCM Community Based Care Management Program. Acronym Guide.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2022

“We’re seeing a massive shift to value-based care versus our previous form of care, which was volume-based,” says Erika Sessions, director of compliance and policy development for online caregiver training platform CareAcademy.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

We enroll patients — in the PACE world, we call them participants — who are living in the community prior to enrollment, but who would qualify for nursing home placement based upon their level of impairment and their care needs. We enroll them, and then we receive capitated payments for Medicare and Medicaid.

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NASHP

MAY 26, 2023

With caregivers increasingly asked to perform more intense and complex care , respite care is integral to giving caregivers a much-needed break. Respite care is a service typically delivered in the home or a facility-based setting that provides short-term relief for caregivers.

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NASHP

JUNE 29, 2022

It also helps states determine their impact on the needs of Medicaid members and the costs associated with their care, which can be crucial to demonstrating cost effectiveness and securing funding for caregiver support programs. Administrative data: family caregivers are not identified in Medicaid claims or encounter data.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

“Consolidating our home-based services under Modivcare Home puts us in a position to accelerate our value-based care initiatives,” Daniel Greenleaf, president and CEO of Modivcare, said during the company’s Q4 earnings call Friday. “We

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This map highlights state activity to integrate CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification, and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. Medicaid Reimbursement. Medicaid Reimbursement.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 21, 2022

The article is based on an interview that took place during a live panel discussion with Adrian Schauer, Founder and CEO of AlayaCare; Vicki Hoak, Executive Director of Home Care Association of America; Todd Austin, Chief Operating Officer for Home Care Pulse; and Shiwan Chung, leader of MedTec Healthcare.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. As the co-founder and former chief medical officer of Landmark Health, he was integral in helping build a company that would eventually catch the eye of UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a critical report during the pandemic , finding that “the way the United States finances, delivers, and regulates care in nursing home settings is ineffective, inefficient, fragmented, and unsustainable.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. As with public sector healthcare spending (“entitlements” in the form of Medicare and Medicaid), healthcare spending crowds out U.S. economy by 2026.

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NASHP

MARCH 28, 2022

State Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports (LTSS) systems are not well-positioned to compete for this shrinking pool of workers. The shortage of direct care workers undermines a state’s ability to serve people with disabilities in the most integrated setting appropriate to a person’s needs and preferences.

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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.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Home Health Care News: Brad, what career experiences do you most draw from in your role today as COO of Careficient? Brad Caldwell: I have been in the home care and hospice space since I was a 22-year-old telehealth sales rep. A few years ago, you would see a company that was 100% Medicare home care only.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stress is integral to overall health and well-being based on consumers’ own definition of “health.” These forced 3 in 5 workers to reduce contributions to savings accounts, especially among Millennials. enabling enrollees in Medicare and Medicaid to order fresh produce online.

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Home Health Care

JULY 15, 2022

This article is sponsored by Integrated Home Care Services. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS) co-founder Paul Pino to learn the top challenges in the home-based care space, and how the IHCS model addresses those challenge s.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded one of its ACO REACH contracts to Upward Health, a multidisciplinary at-home care provider. ACO REACH is a risk-sharing program between companies and the government, standing for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

The pandemic has highlighted the tragic impact of substandard conditions at nursing homes, which are home to many of our most at-risk community members. million people live in over 15,500 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes across the nation. More than 1.4 Reduce Resident Room Crowding.

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