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Health Plans Continue To Reduce Prior Authorization Burden For Home Health Providers

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“We continuously evaluate all our programs to ensure our members are receiving the highest quality of care and work closely with our provider partners to decrease their administrative burden wherever possible,” Dr. Hemant Hora, senior medical director at Point32Health, told Home Health Care News in an email. “We

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One of the Largest Health Systems in the US Is Diving into Home-Based Care

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To pull this off, the hospital has formed a partnership with the Visiting Nurse Association of Florida (VNA), a home health agency. Together, the two organizations have formed TGH Home Care, powered by VNA of Florida. In terms of the partnership, TGH Home Care will be operated by VNA.

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Study: In-Home Outpatient PT Reduces Costs By 52% Compared To Traditional Home Health Services

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According to data from Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), traditional home health PT for post-surgical rehabilitation in 2021 accounted for 10.4% Overutilization of traditional home health poses a challenge in reducing post-surgical costs, especially as demand for those services continues to rise, the study argues.

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Transactions: Choice Secures $190M Credit Facility; Androscoggin Announces Behavioral Health Acquisition

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The Tyler, Texas-based Choice is a home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider that has made some serious growth moves of late. The private equity company InTandem Capital Partners has completed a growth investment into Providence Care. It is the home-based care arm of the BayCare Health System. “We

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NAHC’s Bill Dombi: Horizontal Integration, Workforce Innovation to Accelerate in 2022

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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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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

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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.