Home Health Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Medicare enrollment process undergoes annual changes at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure it remains up to date with evolving regulations, policies and health care practices. 1, and several of them will affect home health agencies. A number of changes went into effect on Jan.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Medicare Advantage (MA) supplemental benefits have expanded and evolved over the last five or six years, but there’s a need to concretely prove their value. One way to do so would be by mirroring the regulatory model state Medicaid programs use for home- and community-based services.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Empirical evidence suggests that hospital-at-home care is safe and effective. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the model is still not nearly as widespread as it should be, however, with patients regularly asking their health care providers about the option. Medical care in the home is inherently a team sport,” Shulman said. “In

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AUGUST 16, 2022

The convener platform healthAlign has a front-row seat to see how home care is being utilized in Medicare Advantage (MA). We have pretty good insight into what you see take place over a period of time when these public policy changes occur,” Friedell said at HHCN’s Home Care Conference last December.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stated its objective to enroll all of its Medicare beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030. million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries are assigned to an ACO. Currently, roughly 13.2 We’d like to try it that way.’ We have these conversations.”

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Home Health Care

MARCH 29, 2023

The Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) took to Capitol Hill Wednesday to educate lawmakers – and their staff – about home care and to highlight critical policy issues. The effort is part of the organization’s National Home Care Advocacy Day, which involved roughly 130 members from more than 21 states.

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MARCH 6, 2024

In 2023, Medicare Advantage (MA) plan members represented more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries for the first time. In 2024, while penetration continues, there are other trends within MA that home-based care providers should be paying attention to. UnitedHealth Group is directly involved in home health care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With more eyes than ever on the home care industry, experts are trying to read the tea leaves to determine if greater standardization will eventually follow. Once considered the “youngest kid” in the larger health care continuum, home care has been ushered into the spotlight over the past couple of years.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This year saw home care providers further build on the spotlight the public health emergency placed on the industry. As part of our annual tradition, Home Health Care News caught up with eight home care leaders to document their predictions on trends, challenges and opportunities for the coming year.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Policy and regulations for home care haven’t kept pace with the growing demand for services and the overall increased visibility of the sector. that point to the increasing need for more senior care services. This has implications for the safety of home care clients as well.”.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership When National Association for Home Care & Hospice President Bill Dombi left a home health care-focused hearing in Washington D.C., That’s because, after a long two years for home health providers and advocates, things were finally starting to look up.

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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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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Gary Bachrach, Executive Director of Business Development, Home Care Services at The Joint Commission and Vicki Hoak, Chief Executive Officer at HCAOA. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022, during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago.

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MARCH 7, 2024

In a State of the Union address that evoked Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Vladimir Putin within the first minute, President Joe Biden also made room for home-based care. After urging for higher taxes on the uber-wealthy, Biden challenged Americans to imagine a future with better access to home care.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 27, 2022

Where its home health counterparts are generally built similarly, mostly tied to Medicare as a payer, the personal care market is full of companies with vastly different strategies. Care management and home care services together are not a new – or necessarily rare – pairing.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed last week that it was in the rulemaking stage of a collaboration with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on the establishment of a federal vaccine mandate. If an entity is not regulated under the CoPs, then this requirement would not apply.”.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Like any regulations that home-based care agencies have been subjected to of late, it’s been hard for some providers to adjust and easier for others. Broadly, EVV applies to Medicaid-reimbursed home care providers. It requires them to electronically verify the services they deliver. . …

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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. billion in claims.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Before other states start to consider minimum wage increases for home care workers, it would be beneficial for them to understand what has – and hasn’t – gone well in New York. In the spring of 2022, New York legislators passed a law that gave home care workers an extra $1 per hour above the state’s $15 minimum wage.

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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.

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MAY 2, 2022

Additionally, as the population of seniors continues to grow and more people wish to age at home, the size of the caregiver pool is just not adequate. As the leader of a holding company that has over 500 home care franchise locations across the U.S. Helping beyond the Medicare waiver programs. That’s been a big change.

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Home Health Care

JULY 14, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its home health proposed payment rule for 2024. The proposal, almost immediately, drew a negative response from key home health stakeholders. The main headline was CMS’ decision to propose a home health payment decrease of 2.2%. Cleamon Moorer Jr.,

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

Medicare Advantage (MA) has been viewed over the last few years as a new space for home-based care providers to generate revenue. Changes have allowed MA plans to pay for additional at-home services, whether through primarily health-related benefits or Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI).

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

"The pandemic winding down is great from a public health standpoint, but we know Congress doesn't want to just open the floodgates" with no virtual care regulations. The coalition's perspective, he said, is that regulators should "put guardrails on, but let us continue the good work."

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 8, 2022

President Joe Biden’s top Medicare official suggested Wednesday that forthcoming rules to bolster nursing home staffing won’t be issued under a mechanism, known as interim final rules, that would allow regulations to take effect more or less immediately. This is the title of a KHN News article published on March 3, 2022.

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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

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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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care providers avoiding the shift to value-based care are running out of time and excuses. Home health providers are already under the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model, which is, by definition, a value-based care model.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate – which requires all home health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 – was allowed to stand. The latter ruling offers more clarity for home health providers, but does not completely clear the mandate from further litigation.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2023

Looking back at Congress’ role in improving home-based care workforce issues in 2022, the industry saw more of an “aspirational” year than a “productive” one. That’s according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Home Health Care

MARCH 24, 2022

A group of New York home-based care providers are taking aim at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a lawsuit filed Friday. The plaintiffs in the case are Safe Haven Home Care Inc.,

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Home Health Care

APRIL 22, 2024

The White House teased the finalized Medicaid Access Rule early Monday, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) later revealed more intricate details attached to the rule. I think disappointed is probably a better word,” National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In July, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over home health payment cuts. Dombi said in a statement shared with Home Health Care News. Under 42 U.S.C. §

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Kang is the former CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The Chicago-based WellBe offers home-based medical care services to patients who are facing multiple complex health challenges. For about 10 years, I was running a group practice, doing that, caring for people in nursing homes, in the home etc.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many people still consider home health and home care as sectors completely separate from hospital-at-home care. As more care comes into the home, home-based care organizations are finding ways to become involved – whether through partnerships or proprietary programs. Nasdaq: AMED).

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2023

What’s troubling is what they’re able to do that traditional home-based care providers may not be doing, Chapters Health System President and CEO Andrew Molosky said Tuesday during a panel discussion at the Home Care Innovation + Investment Conference in Chicago.

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