Home Health Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

“Minnesota has long taken pride in doing very well in providing care for Minnesotans, whether it be the older adults or people with disabilities, so I think we have continued to work on that,” Kathy Messerli, executive director at the Minnesota Home Care Association, told Home Health Care News. “I

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. My wife also works for the same home care agency — Family & Nursing Care. HHCN: What drew you to this industry?

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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

MARCH 22, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving home health providers in North Carolina and Florida time to acclimate to the full implementation of Review Choice Demonstration (RCD). Broadly, the purpose of RCD is to curb improper billing and fraud by home health agencies in certain states.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing ownership data for all Medicare-certified hospice and home health agencies. It’s plain and simple: families deserve transparency when making decisions about hospice and home health care for their loved ones,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Maria Warren, the vice president of McBee, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2023

These are just a few of the home health referral trends that are reflective of the current landscape. Those trends are especially noteworthy amid looming payment rate cuts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). They are also causing home health providers to redefine operational best practices.

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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. At the same time, Markette believes CMS is too far removed from the actual day-to-day realities of home health and hospice care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave health systems and providers the ability to take hospital at home as a concept and run with it during the public health emergency (PHE). The Boston-based Biofourmis is a tech-enabled at-home care enabler. The startup recently reached unicorn status.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. David Chandler, senior director of strategic programs at the Towson, Maryland-based Senior Helpers, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“There were some [accountable care organizations] that we pursued and started working with closely, the hospitals, and we really wanted to make sure we had contracts with all the major [Medicare Advantage] players in our area. That really helped us grow fast.”. We’ve kind of fallen in that same theme.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

“We really believe that that’s going to be the way that you succeed financially,” Ponder-Stansel told Home Health Care News. The Jacksonville, Florida-based Alivia Care provides home health care, hospice care, personal care, palliative care, advanced care planning and other services across Northern Florida and Southern Georgia.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 11, 2022

Based in Atlanta, Aveanna delivers home health, private-duty services and hospice care to a broad range of patients in 30 states. Though it is now heavily invested in the senior home health space, it began as one of the nation’s largest at-home pediatric care providers.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2021

He does so with a strong emphasis on house calls and caring for the vulnerable elderly, taking a specialized interest in geriatric medicine, home health, hospice and palliative care. Home care is right at the center of an effective health care system. That’s why I love it.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 7, 2022

The ability to deliver higher-acuity care in the home is now table stakes. That’s especially true for health plans and health systems following the introduction of the COVID-related Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in November 2020.

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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. Adults may receive benefits along with curative care until they choose to receive hospice. Access to care coordination.

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NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

Identify Payment Methodologies Palliative care services can be delivered in a range of settings – in hospitals, within specialty medical practices, such as oncology, and as part of primary or in-home care. A recent Health Affairs article reviewed opportunities to incorporate a palliative care benefit into ACOs.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Home Health Care News: Why don’t we all just talk about what your organization does and what you do for them? Ashley Puchalski: I’m with Ohio’s Hospice. We service about 60 of the 88 counties in Ohio, providing hospice care throughout the state.

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