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2024 Executive Forecast: What 9 Home Care Leaders Expect Next Year

Home Health Care

While home care providers are working to mitigate headwinds – such as the rising cost of delivering care and staffing challenges – they also have their eye on where the industry goes from here. As 2024 approaches, home care leaders are embracing AI, alternative payer sources, employee-centric solutions and much more.

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With Medicaid Access Rule Finalized, Home Care Providers Enter ‘Wait-And-See’ Mode

Home Health Care

Amid Medicaid changes, the most relevant news to home care providers is the aforementioned 80-20 provision, which will force HCBS providers to direct 80% of reimbursement to direct care workers. “We National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. We would advise against that.

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2022 Home Care Executive Forecast: ‘Buckle Up For A Wild Ride’

Home Health Care

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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What The ‘Fundamentally Contradicting’ Medicaid Access Rule Includes

Home Health Care

The Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services (Access rule) final rule advances access to care and quality of care, and will improve health outcomes for Medicaid beneficiaries across fee-for-service (FFS) and managed care delivery systems, including home- and community-based services provided through those delivery systems.”

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Why Accurate Data is a Lifeline to Care in the Medicaid Redetermination Cycle

HIT Consultant

In recognition of the procedural burden our existing processes and systems exact, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has encouraged states to use all available strategies to streamline redeterminations and prevent eligible enrollees from losing coverage due to procedural issues.

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Voices: Julieann Esper Rainville, Chief Executive Officer, Viventium

Home Health Care

What are some industry challenges and market conditions in home care, home health, and hospice you pay the closest attention to? The big challenge in this industry is caregiver recruitment and retention, and according to the 2023 Home Care Pulse Benchmarking Report, turnover in 2022 was 77.1% — its worst since 2018.

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Day 2 Notes from the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Sheppard Health Law

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. For example, Christopher Riopelle, CEO of Strive Health, shared today that 42% of U.S.