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 potential impact on legislation. Introduced to the U.S. We adamantly oppose this bill in its current form,” its statement read.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SCAN Group has entered into the in-home senior primary care space with the launch of Welcome Health. Dr. Scott Weingarten will serve as CEO of the independent primary care medical group moving forward. Welcome Health will care for predominantly Medicare Advantage patients,” Weingarten told Home Health Care News.

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Primary Care Medicare Quality of Care Patient Experience 104

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are increasingly delegating the management of their home health spend to conveners. With MA outpacing fee-for-service in growth, home health providers are increasingly trying to figure out how to best work with the MA subsection of their business. Paul Kusserow; President and CEO, Amedisys Inc.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We will keep doing everything we can to ensure all Americans receive the dignity, care, and respect they deserve.” “CMS CMS is committed to using every tool at our disposal to improve nursing home care and identify trends that enhance residents’ quality of life,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said. “If

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2022

“We’re seeing a massive shift to value-based care versus our previous form of care, which was volume-based,” says Erika Sessions, director of compliance and policy development for online caregiver training platform CareAcademy. That will ultimately benefit the quality of care.”. This article is sponsored by CareAcademy.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

January 18, 2023 … As part of the continuing efforts under President Biden’s initiative to improve nursing home transparency, safety and quality, and accountability, today the U.S. No nursing home resident should be improperly diagnosed with schizophrenia or given an inappropriate antipsychotic.

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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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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

Markovich is worried that the healthcare system is losing the public’s trust – which will make it harder to effectively fix our system – while also not delivering the quality of care and accessibility needed by our population. Monogram Health also spoke to the use of palliative care programs for its chronic kidney disease patients.

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Geek Doctor

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Research has demonstrated that hospital-at-home programs for patients with specific acute medical conditions can reduce complications and reduce the cost of care by 30% or more.[1] Bruce Leff, MD, and his colleagues have tested this program with 455 elderly patients from three Medicare-managed systems and a VA medical center.[2]

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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. As part of contract and systems oversight, states engage in a range of quality assessment and improvement strategies.

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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. T)he benefit will be made available in all care settings including the community, nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities.”

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s comprehensive behavioral health approach included efforts to increase uptake of CoCM through additional training and practice supports and Medicaid rate increases to 120% of Medicare rates for behavioral health providers. An action plan dashboard tracks targets.

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NASHP

MAY 20, 2022

Supporting family caregivers can be an effective rebalancing strategy, as the care they provide allows for a greater number of individuals to remain at home and in the community. Recent research indicates that unmet training needs of caregivers correlated to greater acute care utilization for Medicare home health beneficiaries.

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Vie Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

It’s initiated, not as a preventative or proactive planned thing. And I think we should be looking at home health too. Transitions to home care, especially for dementia patients. Empower your teams to look at the care they provide through the lens of the caregiver. It’s usually a crisis.

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