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Accountable Care Organizations Are Diving Head First Into Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

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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24 Of The Fastest-Growing Companies Operating In Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

Upward Health — Hauppauge, New York — Rank: 7 — Growth: 30,808% — Upward Health is an in-home primary care and behavioral health care company. The company touts in-home care as one of its key solutions. The company touts in-home care as one of its key solutions.

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How CMS’ Goal To Enroll All Medicare Beneficiaries In ACOs Could Impact Home-Based Care Providers

Home Health Care

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stated its objective to enroll all of its Medicare beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030. They go out and try to aggregate nursing homes, or home health organizations that they can work with in a much tighter knit way.” Currently, roughly 13.2

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3 Senior Living Providers Merge to Form Curana Health

HIT Consultant

The organization includes a medical group (Curana Health Medical Group), an operator of Medicare Advantage health plans (AllyAlign Health), and an Accountable Care Organization (Curana Health ACO). . – The combined Curana Health organization spans 26 states and over 1000+ senior living community partners.

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CMMI Prioritizes Multi-Payer Alignment in New Models

NCQA

The Innovation Center also released the Making Care Primary (MCP) model and the GUIDE model this year, innovative solutions to achieve multi-payer alignment and focus on populations that have historically been underfunded in health care.

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CMS Announces Proposed Rule for 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Sheppard Health Law

Notably, within this overall decrease, CMS is also proposing increases for certain forms of direct patient care, including primary care. The Proposed Rule also includes changes to the financial benchmarking methodology that is meant to encourage participation by accountable care organizations serving complex populations.

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Getting To Know Laura Tortorella, The Next CEO Of AccentCare

Home Health Care

According to her LinkedIn, the roles she held at Steward Health Care include: COO; EVP of operations; SVP of corporate operations; SVP and chief of staff; VP of operations and strategic initiatives, senior director of primary care and medical specialties; and director of practice operations.