Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement dmuoio Mon, 04/24/2023 - 14:08

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 13, 2024

Eli Lilly is partnering with Amazon's pharmacy unit to offer home delivery for diabetes, migraine and obesity medications, including GLP-1 weight loss drug Zepbound. |

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a rule Wednesday that increases the 2024 home health payments by 0.8%, or $140 million. | CMS' new proposed rule will increase home health payments by 0.8%, or $140M, among other changes.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2024

BrightStar Care has built a reputation as one of the home care industry’s innovators. Past examples of the home care franchise company’s pioneering spirit include its investment in small-home senior living residences and its educational partnership with Chamberlain University.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 25, 2024

The health system is selling Senior Helpers to Waud Capital Partners just three years after it acquired the home care group.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The final rule comes in response to growing concerns about the role of private equity firm ownership in nursing homes.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 16, 2024

Home-based care dealmaking remains in a lull, one it hasn’t been able to shake since the historical M&A highs of 2020 and 2021. “We When looking at home-based care deal trends, hospice saw a 67% dropoff. On the Medicare-certified home health side, there was 33% dropoff in deals.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 18, 2024

The budget proposal includes over $1 billion in cuts to the states’ home care programs. CDPAP is a state Medicaid program that allows people who need care, known as home care consumers, to hire the caregiver of their choice. This program is popular in the state because of the autonomy it gives home care consumers.

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Home Health Care

MAY 8, 2024

The home health and hospice giant spun off of Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) in July of 2022. Based in Dallas, Enhabit has 255 home health locations and 112 hospice locations across 34 states. The post Home Health Giant Enhabit Completes Strategic Review, Will Remain Independent Company appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

Home care leaders are not just operating in their own individual bubbles. These leaders are part of a larger ecosystem of organizations that make up the home-based care space. In a sea of providers, the best leaders are the ones who are able to recognize which of their home-based care peers are standouts. Much respect.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 29, 2024

Jeff Bevis – who co-founded FirstLight Home Care – has been named the next CEO of Concierge Home Care, a home-based care company backed by Waud Capital. After Bevis co-founded FirstLight Home Care, he led the company for over a decade. Waud Capital recently acquired the large home care franchise Senior Helpers.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 25, 2024

One of the ways that home health providers are tackling access to care challenges is by focusing on delivering care to home health deserts. Broadly, home health deserts are low-income communities that are the hardest to staff and where people who need home health care are unable to access it.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Legacy Care Partners Acquires Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice of Texas Legacy Care Partners – which also owns Advanced Home Care – has acquired Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice of Texas. It will now fall under the umbrella of SSM Health at Home.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2024

Nasdaq: AMED) continues to grow its home health segment – primarily through non-Medicare revenue – and its higher-acuity care segment. The company reported its first-quarter earnings late Wednesday, which showed a 10% increase in total same store admissions in home health care and a 23% year-over-year jump in higher-acuity care admissions.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2024

Home health providers’ fight against cuts to fee-for-service Medicare payment has become a year-by-year battle. One of things we wanted to make sure that we could showcase to Congressional allies was how much home health really has been cut,” PQHH CEO Joanne Cunningham told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 22, 2024

Most importantly, the bemoaned “80-20” provision has gone through as proposed, meaning providers will eventually be forced to direct 80% of reimbursement for home- and community-based services (HCBS) to caregiver wages. The “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule has been finalized. I think we’re all aligned around that.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

Payment denials can be costly and time consuming for home health providers, and they’re often self-inflicted. Noyce noted that providers looking to find the home health coverage and documentation requirements, in order to stay on the right side of compliance rules, should be aware that all of the information is available to the public. “All

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In recent years, home-based care providers have seen the value in being more hands on when it comes to building home health nursing pipelines. CenterWell Home Health — Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) home health provider arm — is one of the providers that has gone this route. We provided them with the curriculum, so to speak.”

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Home Health Care

APRIL 30, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Now that the Medicaid Access Rule has been finalized , home-based care’s company leaders have had time to digest it, and consider what it means for the future of the space. Also excluded are all the other costs that come with running a home care agency. Here’s what six of them had to say.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Well Care Health is divesting its personal home care division to Avid Health at Home. For Well Care Health, it’s an opportunity to capitalize off of the demand for its well-established home care footprint, while also focusing on a new strategic direction moving forward. Since May, it has closed on three acquisitions.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

When it comes to expanding their business portfolios, home health leaders can continue to do what they know best, or they can decide to branch out. Leaders at companies like Choice Health at Home and The LTM Group have found themselves in this exact position. The first question is — will it improve the patient experience? “We’re

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Home Health Care

MARCH 1, 2024

Home health patients under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have worse functional outcomes compared to traditional Medicare patients, likely as a result of receiving fewer visits, according to a new study. Of [nearly 300,000] patients, MA patients had shorter home health length of stay by 1.62 2019 to Dec. fewer nursing visits, 2.7%

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership When the “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule was finalized last week, the 80-20 provision stole the show, due to its unpopularity among home-based care leaders. 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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Home Health Care

MARCH 13, 2024

By breaking down barriers between patients and at-home primary care, the whole continuum wins. Case in point, Patina Health has a specific strategy when it comes to delivering at-home primary care. To be blunt, health care is not age-friendly,” Patina Health Chief Health Officer Dr. Neil Patel told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

DispatchHealth — one of the most successful startups in the home-based care space over the last decade — has reportedly laid off 88 employees. We are focused on supporting our patients and our mission to deliver trusted, compassionate care in the comfort of home,” a company spokesperson wrote to Home Health Care News in a statement.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) nursing home staffing proposal has been a dark cloud over the industry. Some believe it could spell trouble for home health care as well. hours of registered nurse (RN) care, and 2.45 hours of nurse aide care, on a daily basis.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership On Tuesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials vehemently backed the thought process behind the “80-20” wage mandate in home- and community-based services (HCBS). National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year, WellBe Senior Medical positioned itself as the “ general contractor ” for home-based care patients. “We’re We’re like the advocate and navigator … when you’re building a home, you’ve got plumbers, you’ve got electricians, you’ve got masons. I’ve seen it from the provider perspective, certainly in the home.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a home-based care provider, Nascentia Health was already well-versed in delivering care outside of brick-and-mortar settings. Armed with this experience, the company teamed up with a partner to offer hospital-level care in the home. Nascentia Health is a home-focused health care organization based in Syracuse, New York.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership CenterWell President Dr. Sanjay Shetty knows home health care is an extremely valuable service. For close to a year now, Shetty has led Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) health care services division, which includes CenterWell Home Health, CenterWell Primary Care and CenterWell Pharmacy.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 19, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Every year, home health providers await the release of the U.S. While home health providers are likely months away from seeing a proposal, it’s worth examining if what’s happening in other care settings could offer a clue of what to expect.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

footprint, the home care franchise Right at Home is still looking to grow. In 2023, Right at Home closed the year with 24 signings and 17 openings. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Right at Home has more than 700 franchise locations across the U.S. With 2023 in the rearview, Right at Home is focused on strategies for 2024.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Personal home care and home health care are both branches connected to the post-acute care family tree. As such, home care leaders believe that there are numerous ways that their organizations can help alleviate home health provider pain points.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. on care at home programs, gathering evidence and learnings across the various programs.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Recognizing the need for a streamlined hospital-at-home supply chain network, Cardinal Health Inc. At the same time, Cardinal Health is also making major strides in its overall mission to be a driver of at-home care. Broadly, Velocare technicians deliver hospital-grade products and services to patients’ homes.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care agencies that are part of larger franchise networks get to reap the benefits of operating under established names and reputations. Most people, I know, like animals,” Nicole told Home Health Care News. “It The Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based Griswold is a home care franchise.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

In past years, Medicare-certified home health agencies and Medicaid personal care services providers have been big focus areas for government watchdogs. While there’s still plenty of oversight, the spotlight on home health and personal care providers appears to have dimmed somewhat. 1, 2020, and for home health by Jan.

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