Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2022

“A lot of what we do is looking backwards so that we can look to the future, because we can’t really move forward until we know exactly what we’re dealing with,” Jennifer Schiller, the executive director of the Research Institute for Home Care said at Home Health Care News’ VALUE event last week. “I

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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% billion was spent on LTSS. This represents 13.2%

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2023

In terms of the main provisions, the proposed rule for hospice doesn’t contain a large number of policy changes this year, according to Theresa Forster, vice president of hospice at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). That is, of course, a proposed element.

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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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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. States have responded to this call for action and are integrating principles of equity and inclusivity into their state plans on aging.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Now more than ever, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations are including home-based care services in their plans. While some organizations are giving their members access to these offerings for the first time, others have long embraced home-based care. Clover Health is ahead of the trend.

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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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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. Rhode Island is another state that has invested in coordinated care for complex populations enrolled in Medicaid. The state and U.S.

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Home Health Care

MAY 12, 2022

The appointment followed reports that Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) stopped reimbursing InnovAge for new clients. InnovAge’s plan to remediate and transform — which the company has dubbed “One InnovAge” — has three key dimensions.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Hannah Luetke-Stahlman, Vice President of Solutions Management at WellSky, and Sheila Davis, Senior Vice President of Area Operations at Always Best Care. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022, during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago.

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Home Health Care

JULY 21, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its first ever home- and community-based services (HCBS) quality measures Thursday. The measures are build around three pillars: access, a rebalancing of HCBS spend versus institutional care spend and community integration.

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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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Home Health Care

JANUARY 6, 2023

Home health care’s 2022 was dimmed by the dark cloud of Medicare rate cuts. At the same time, they’re renegotiating arrangements with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and pivoting from certain service lines to others. Over the past few years, the number of existing home health agencies has steadily decreased.

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NASHP

MAY 26, 2023

With caregivers increasingly asked to perform more intense and complex care , respite care is integral to giving caregivers a much-needed break. Respite care is a service typically delivered in the home or a facility-based setting that provides short-term relief for caregivers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

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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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NASHP

MAY 20, 2022

Although states can promote family caregiver services through licensure, regulation, and outreach, the most powerful policy lever that states have to increase access is funding key services and supports. California: Extensive use of self-direction as an alternative to out-of-home care. How States Assist Family Caregivers.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When it comes to policy, Gurian believes a more full-picture approach needs to be taken by health care regulators and stakeholders. From a LeadingAge perspective, there’s also sort of a lack of focus on the continuum and big picture for long-term care and how we need all the pieces to fit together from a policy perspective.

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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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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. A few days ago, TransUnion, the credit agency, announced plans to acquire Healthcare Payment Specialists.

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