Home Health Care

MARCH 30, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership During the last week of March, hundreds of stakeholders vied on behalf of home-based care in Washington, D.C., Personal home care provider and advocate voices did so with an excitement for the future, fresh off the high of the president mentioning multiple times in a month.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decides to do with its home health final payment rule , industry experts believe providers need to drastically improve their cost reporting data. Over the years, Maxim said she has seen providers cutting corners firsthand when hiring accountants to put together cost reports.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

2] The increasing demand for these services will also likely proportionally increase health care expenditures of LTSS. trillion spent on personal health care. [3] 3] Notably, the first and second largest payers of LTSS are Medicaid and Medicare, respectively, accounting for 64.1% trillion spent on personal health care. [3]

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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

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

JANUARY 26, 2022

Patrick Blair, formerly of Bayada Home Health Care, has been named president and CEO by InnovAge’s board of directors. The appointment comes after reports that Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stopped reimbursing InnovAge for new clients.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. Clinicians partner with patients, often in teams and group-based care.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses. While EvergreenHealth Home Care found success under HHVBP compared to state peers, increasing its star ratings and overall quality amid the demo, it didn’t see significant upside adjustments. “We Our home health [represents] about $40 million,” Korte said. “The

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

CMS has also finalized updates to regulatory text to consolidate statutory references to data submission and to codify in regulations the HH QRP measure removal factors previously finalized via rulemaking. The HH PPS Final Rule (232 pages) is available at [link]. Change the Model baseline year from CY 2019 to CY 2022 starting in CY 2023.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The second graphic titled “ready to start your health journey” kicks off the downloading of the app and creating an account, and ends with a $10 off grocery coupon. As many consumers told Morning Consult, “price” and cost of apps are top-of-mind when it comes to opting-in to their adoption and continued use. .”

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

A clinician that receives those orders needs to have enough critical thinking skills and wound care knowledge to be able to generate some possible treatment options to present back to that provider. What are some of the most pressing home care issues outside of staffing today? That’s not so great for home health.

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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. The heightened attention on personal care services leads to necessary sophistication, oversight and regulation.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Kris Novak, Managing Director, Home Health, Home Care and Hospice, The Braff Group, to share the lessons he’s learned as a buyer of home health and hospice agencies that every seller should know. Delays are never in the seller’s favor.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Arizona’s End of Life and Advanced Care Planning benefit is referenced in its MCO contracts and further described in state regulations.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And then, at the same time, let’s look at the longer-term solution, which is that we need to move towards an episodic-type rate that is more comparable to Medicare fee for service.” But as a service line, home health care only makes up about 5% of Addus’ revenue.

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Etactics

JANUARY 12, 2023

HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. These regulations apply to anyone and everyone working with PHI. times, accounting for 76% of all attacks. Let’s look at a real-world example… Aveanna Health is a pediatric home care provider that suffered from a phishing attack in August 2019.

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Home Health Care

MAY 10, 2022

Steve Morgan: For those of you not familiar with WellSky, we are the leading provider of technology services and solutions for post-acute home care and community-based service providers. The big jump actually happened in non-medical home care, where there was an 84% increase in transaction volume from ’20 to ’21.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 29, 2023

The Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) took to Capitol Hill Wednesday to educate lawmakers – and their staff – about home care and to highlight critical policy issues. The effort is part of the organization’s National Home Care Advocacy Day, which involved roughly 130 members from more than 21 states.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its FY 2023 home health final payment rule late Monday. It comes with an estimated increase to 2023 home health payments of 0.7%, or $125 million, compared to 2022 aggregate payments. For providers with a Medicare certification date prior to Jan.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

On February 15, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that would require nursing homes enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid to disclose new information about their ownership and management structures. Finally, CMS proposed a number of other definitions (e.g.,

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NASHP

MARCH 28, 2022

A certified nurse assistant (CNA) is qualified to work in a Medicare-certified nursing facility. Home Health Aides. Home health aides (HHAs) also provide personal assistance with self-care activities and health-related tasks, such as changing bandages or administering medications.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 29, 2023

This comprehensive report (478 pages) summarizes results from the Nursing Home Staffing Study activities between May and December of 2022 and presents options for minimum nurse staffing requirements for consideration by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Below are key findings from the Staffing Study.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

In February 2022, President Biden announced a comprehensive set of reforms to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care, hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide, and make the quality of care and facility ownership more transparent so that potential residents and their loved ones can make informed care choices. [1]

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s comprehensive behavioral health approach included efforts to increase uptake of CoCM through additional training and practice supports and Medicaid rate increases to 120% of Medicare rates for behavioral health providers. An action plan dashboard tracks targets. CMS’s Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive!

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NASHP

MAY 26, 2023

States understand that an individual’s care plan should not be a snapshot in time, but rather malleable to account for unexpected changes in a care recipient’s life. As promulgated in Iowa’s Human Service’s regulation 441-78.3 As codified in Iowa’s Human Service’s regulation 441-78.34(13)

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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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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 17, 2021

In order to be a PACE participant, an individual generally has to be over the age of 55 while being dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. An alternative for nursing-home eligible patients, PACE is normally run out of communities, using a group of different providers to provide holistic care for participants.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Earlier this year, CMS and HHS also proposed a rule in September to establish national minimum staffing standards for nursing homes to enhance the quality and safety of care. HHS continues to take action to improve the safety, quality, and accountability of nursing homes,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

The recent announcement of the prescription drug cost regulation blueprint, “American Patients First,” speaks to President Trump’s and Secretary Azar’s focus on regulatory reforms targeting the prices of medicine. Last year’s rate of growth was 4.6%.

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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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