HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2023

Adimika Arthur, Executive Director, HealthTech 4 Medicaid Manisha Sharma, Senior Medical Director, Promise Health Plan Blue Shield of California During the pandemic, Medicaid enrollment grew by nearly 30% to cover more than 93 million Americans , due in large part to COVID-19 provisions that included continuous Medicaid enrollment.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Many aging veterans rely on nursing home care to meet their daily needs. billion for veteran nursing home care provided in state veterans homes. GAO conducted a nationwide survey to collect information on the 153 state veterans homes providing nursing home care. The Full Report is found here.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 26, 2024

At the start of the week, the “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule was finalized. The 80-20 provision is, arguably, the most controversial component of the Medicaid rule. Leaders at organizations like Home Assist Health, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and Addus HomeCare Corp.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

The pandemic has highlighted the tragic impact of substandard conditions at nursing homes, which are home to many of our most at-risk community members. million people live in over 15,500 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes across the nation. Establish a Minimum Nursing Home Staffing Requirement.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Home care franchise giant Seniors Helpers entered this year with big ambitions, partly fueled by its April 2021 acquisition by Advocate Aurora Enterprises. For our latest episode of “Disrupt,” Home Health Care News caught up with Ross to learn more about Senior Helpers’ plans in 2022 and its relationship with Advocate.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

HouseWorks announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Greater Boston Home Health Care Inc. Founded in 1992 by Edward McGonagle, Greater Boston Home Care provides personal care services. “I Boston-based HouseWorks is one of the nation’s largest independent home care companies.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care October 25, 2021 / by Salom Teshale, Kitty Purington, Wendy Fox-Grage, and Mia Antezzo. Comprehensive care coordination. billion on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) per year. Assessment and management of pain and other symptoms.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new proposed model that will undoubtedly affect home health providers, and also allow them the opportunity to get more involved in value-based care initiatives. Much of the specifics are still to be decided,” NAHC President William A.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 8, 2022

They include allowing CMS to ban from the Medicare and Medicaid programs those facilities owned by people or corporations with subpar track records and to increase penalties on poor-performing facilities from $21,000 to $1 million. Most states have standards for nursing home staffing levels, but the minimums vary widely.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2022

With more eyes than ever on home-based care, there are a number of legislative and regulatory developments that will be critical for providers to stay on top of. For providers like Help at Home, which is working in the Medicaid space along with private pay, the short-term gains have been apparent. “If

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the last home health proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency in charge of reimbursement rates sent out a request for information on home health aide utilization. For Dombi, the response felt insufficient.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2024

The company delivers in-home care by combining Medicare Advantage coverage with its virtual and in-home care provider — Devoted Medical — as well as partnerships with other home health providers.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sure to add more fuel to the fire for the “Choose Home” initiative and other movements aiming to bring more care into the home. The Choose Home benefit does not have any cost sharing or cost shift to beneficiaries,” Dombi responded. Introduced to the U.S.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The reality of the funding aspect of Medicaid does not make it easy to run a business and to serve all the people that need to be served,” Mollie Gurian, VP of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge, said at the organization’s annual conference in Chicago on Monday. In managed care, many providers don’t have a voice.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday launched a “one-stop shop” for state Medicaid agencies and in-home care stakeholders. The goal of the new digital tool is to “advance transparency and innovation” for home- and community-based services (HCBS), according to the agency.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Self-directed care providers will allow seniors and people with disabilities to choose their own non-medical caregiver. Then, those chosen caregivers are generally paid out by state Medicaid programs. The dramatic rise in consumer-directed care is not just evident in the home-based care space, but in the health care world at large.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The study from RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, looked at 15 different quality measures from patients on MA plans during 2016 and 2017 and found that the quality of care was only slightly better when compared to plans that didn’t have any monthly premiums.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), doubled down on its work to protect nursing home residents and their caregivers from illegal methods of guaranteeing payment for care. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 3, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – announced that states would have an additional year to use funding from the American Rescue Plan to both enhance and expand home- and community-based services (HCBS). The Medicaid waiting lists for HCBS are notoriously long. On Friday, the U.S.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 2, 2022

These actions were developed by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the White House stated. Home health providers] should start preparing for it now, so they’re ahead of the curve.”. It’s not a question of if — it’s a question of when.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2023

This is because most of the biggest issues have already been addressed by Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). For example, CMS early on in the pandemic made permanent the ability of home health agencies to use virtual visits, if authorized by the treating physician or treating practitioner.”

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Home Health Care

MARCH 31, 2023

Traditions provides home health, hospice and palliative care services in 18 states. Klementz believes there’s a disconnect between home health providers and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and that disconnect is partially driven by managed care rates.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 9, 2022

health care system has learned that home-based care companies are well-positioned to respond to unique challenges, with at-home care approaches often boosting patient satisfaction, lowering costs and improving quality of care. Over the past few years, the U.S.

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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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Home Health Care

JUNE 28, 2023

Riggins is a veteran of the home health space, but has been thrust into RCD given the VitalCaring’s footprint in Texas and Florida, two of the five states where the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) demonstration is active. For them, if they run into an issue, it’s typically a one-off.” National expansion next?

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Even more than the pandemic, the past 12 months have been about industry-shaping deals that will continue to shape the in-home care narrative for years to come. Reflect back on this year in home-based care by revisiting 10 of HHCN’s most widely read stories. and several other countries. That’s not our future.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s final rule includes definitions of private equity and real estate investment trusts, setting the stage for identifying whether a nursing home belongs to one of these types of owners. Taking steps to help consumers to learn more about the owners of a nursing home will allow them to make the choice that best meets their needs.” “CMS

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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

AUGUST 24, 2023

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. Target Populations That Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services Use data to identify Medicaid enrollees with serious illness.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first released its home health proposed payment rule for 2022, its nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model was recognized as a potential game-changer for the home health industry.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

starting with Choose Home. Potential cost-saving is what is attracting bipartisan support for this legislation,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), told Home Health Care News during a recent HHCN+ TALKS episode. How NAHC views the in-home care workforce situation.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Any day now, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release the 2024 home health final payment rule. In anticipation, home health providers and advocates have been appealing to Congress, educating, calling to action on social media and more. Home health is the foundation of home-based care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of Tuesday morning. From the start, home health stakeholders took issue with CMS’ methodology for determining whether the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) led to budget-neutral spending in 2020. Overall, industry stakeholders had submitted 691 comments to the U.S. Although a 2.9%

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Now, being partners with the large MA plans and large hospital systems, via our Contessa acquisition, we can drive our risk-taking solutions into traditional home health and hospice, as well as increase our market size into high-acuity home care. Consumers expect health care to come to them. Nasdaq: AMED). * * *.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 31, 2022

All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. In 2021, Contessa was acquired by Amedisys, a home health, hospice and personal care company.

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NASHP

MAY 20, 2022

Medicaid is the largest source of public funding that can be leveraged to support family caregivers. States can support family caregivers through a range of Medicaid authorities and state plan amendments. Those services can include caregiver education, counseling, and training as well as adult day and respite care.

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