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

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Like so many providers that survived the COVID-19 pandemic, HCR Home Care feels like it is just getting its feet underneath it again. Founded in 1978, HCR Home Care is a provider of home care and health services across New York state. at the time and she was trying to find care for her father in Rochester.

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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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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Compassionate owner, Francis Kimaru, pleaded guilty to separate criminal charges brought in by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Division in September 2019. OIG releases Medicaid fraud report. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released its latest Medicaid fraud report.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While there’s still much to learn about Omicron, its emergence is yet another reminder that the pandemic is far from over for home health and home care providers. Be vigilant,” a LeadingAge spokesperson told in-home care providers in a message shared with Home Health Care News. In the background.

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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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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

MARCH 14, 2024

Individuals who are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up a sizable portion of the overall home-based care population. Too often, though, this dual status comes with frustrating challenges around care plans and coordination. In Medicaid, duals account 30% of spending and 14% of enrollment.

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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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Home Health Care

MAY 4, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) latest proposed rule , which includes a provision that would require at least 80% of Medicaid payments to go toward compensation for personal care workers. During the call, Sampson also discussed Medicaid redetermination and how he believed it would impact Modivcare.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an informational bulletin detailing actions that states can take using existing Medicaid authorities to drive better health outcomes for nursing home residents and improve staff pay, training, and retention efforts.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Part 521 governing the implementation and operation of effective compliance programs for certain “required providers,” including, now for the first time, Medicaid managed care organizations (MMCOs). [1] New Subpart 521-1: Compliance Programs The adopted regulations represent substantial changes to 18 N.Y.C.R.R.

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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

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

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).

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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

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

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. His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 6, 2022

And while there are plenty of kinks to work through before these benefits become a significant revenue driver for home-based care agencies, their increasing popularity is undoubtedly encouraging. Take into account the plans offering IHSS through either pathway, and that number jumps to 18% of all plans, or 952 total plans.

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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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NASHP

MAY 26, 2023

Respite care is a service typically delivered in the home or a facility-based setting that provides short-term relief for caregivers. It is one of the most desired caregiver services , and Medicaid is one policy lever to fund it. nursing home) to receive long-term care services in their home and community.

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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 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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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care October 25, 2021 / by Salom Teshale, Kitty Purington, Wendy Fox-Grage, and Mia Antezzo. Comprehensive care coordination. billion on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) per year. Assessment and management of pain and other symptoms.

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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

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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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday that MSSP saved Medicare $1.8

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that health care spending in the U.S. And home health care, in particular, experienced robust spending growth. billion in 2020, accounting for 20% of total national health care expenditures.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sure to add more fuel to the fire for the “Choose Home” initiative and other movements aiming to bring more care into the home. 31, 2020, accounting for the majority of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. A recently published study by the U.S.

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NASHP

JANUARY 12, 2024

Direct care workers — such as personal care and home care aides as well as certified nursing assistants — provide care services to individuals and older adults with complex needs. In 2024, people with Medicare and Medicaid coverage (i.e.,

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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

MARCH 7, 2024

But the failure of hospice’s fit within VBID points to larger problems that exist somewhere between home-based care providers and MA plans. 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.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 17, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its FY 2023 home health proposed payment rule late Friday. Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), wrote in a comment shared with Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

JULY 28, 2023

There are a number of factors that are contributing to this trend of bankruptcy filings, including capital market constraints, care shifting out of institutional settings and the expiration of continuous Medicaid enrollment. It’s not an absolute certainty that home-based care providers will continue to go unscathed, however.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave states an unprecedented ability to temporarily modify their Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) programs. Medicaid, a federal-state health financing program for certain low-income and medically needy individuals, directs HCBS to more than 3.6

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