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

JANUARY 9, 2023

She shares some best practices for building a wound care management program in today’s operating environment, and she also discusses the key ways in which providers can cut costs without sacrificing quality of care. Home Health Care News: What career experiences do you most draw from, in your role today?

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But the vast majority of the doctors and nurse practitioners that provide treatment to LifeMD’s patients across all 50 states, this is their full-time job and they love it. I mean, hiring full-time providers and doctors and nurse practitioners and all the licensing that goes into this. They’re super passionate about it.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 29, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Nursing Home Staffing Study Comprehensive Report – June 2023 was posted this afternoon. The study also explores potential implications for feasibility of increased staffing and costs to nursing homes. million nursing home residents nationwide.

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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. In Rhode Island, MCO plans of care must include “interventions to address special needs (e.g.,

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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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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.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 2, 2022

nursing homes under greater scrutiny. And though the reforms are focused entirely on nursing homes, providers in other sectors – including home health – are wondering if there will be reverberations throughout post-acute care. In particular, he called out private equity (PE)-owned facilities. “As

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s InCK program , led by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, brings together partners from Medicaid, behavioral health, child welfare, juvenile justice, education, Title V, mobile crisis, and more to coordinate care and address the health and social needs of children in five counties.

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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. Training includes health education, telephonic counseling, and active coordination with care management.

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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. The quality-of-care issues are not solely found in the U.S.

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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. HHS continues to take action to improve the safety, quality, and accountability of nursing homes,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “HHS

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