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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Home Health Care

MARCH 19, 2024

Building a successful and sustainable caregiver training program in personal home care demands meticulous planning and execution. “My old business manager used to have a saying: ‘He or she who has the caregivers wins,’” Bob Roth, co-founder and managing partner of Cypress HomeCare Solutions, told Home Health Care News. “In

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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

JANUARY 9, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The rising costs of home care were a trend in 2022 and 2023. That’s only one trend, of many, that will impact home care providers in the new year. Login The post Top Home Care Trends For 2024 appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“Medicare Advantage plans were early in understanding and embracing the value of in-home support, but they came at it through a relatively new approach with the contractor — 1099 — model,” he said. Medicaid] has always kind of relied on that regulated agency model that the states have kind of set up around caregivers entering the home.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership For years, many industry advocates have pushed for more standardization across home care. Home care licensure is largely seen as one of the main avenues to industry standardization. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Get Membership Already a member?

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Health Care Dive

JULY 7, 2023

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice said regulators used “an illogical and invalid methodology” in a new payment model.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 21, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health. Policy and regulation plays a huge role in access to services and person-centered flexibilities in care. Transformative.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 9, 2024

President Joe Biden made remarks on the care economy – including home care – in a speech Tuesday at Union Station in Washington, D.C. You know, take home care,” he said. The cost of long-term care for aging loved ones and people with disabilities rose 40% in the last decade. It’s amazing. Think about it.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“It’s important to address a whole infrastructure, such as increasing support and training for home health aides for home visits, supporting the ability to access and use medical devices and equipment, and most important is updating key Medicaid regulations and payment models,” Reinhard said. North Carolina 42. Florida 44.

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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. In terms of the type of care seniors prefer, services that allow them to age in place for as long as possible are overwhelmingly popular.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Insurance companies selling Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have been facing increased scrutiny from members of Congress and regulators, with critics of the private version of Medicare claiming carriers are profiting far too much.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As the home care industry awaits on the finalized version of that rule, a lot hangs in the balance. Login The post As Non-Compete Ban Hangs In Balance, A Larger Home Care Provider Battle Materializes appeared first on Home Health Care News. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

Home health providers should keep a close eye on the rise and popularity of managed care plans under Medicare Advantage in 2023. That was one of the many messages from Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), during Wednesday’s webinar with Netsmart.

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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. “It’s

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Home Health Care

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s also a less regulated industry – but still fragmented – so the strategies being deployed around the country tend to be wide-ranging and fascinating. Care management and home care services together are not a new – or necessarily rare – pairing. But that doesn’t mean Senior Helpers is all in just yet.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 6, 2024

By Hannah Rahim The regulation of medical assistance in dying (MAID) is drastically different between the U.S. Ethical considerations in regulating MAID Canada’s MAID laws have been criticized for positioning death as an easier alternative to addressing the root causes of patients’ suffering. and Canada.

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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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Home Health Care

AUGUST 9, 2022

Two large private equity firms have made under-the-radar investments in the self-directed, at-home care enabler Public Partnerships (PPL). States generally like the model because it provides jobs and also usually helps keep patients out of more costly settings – like most home care does.

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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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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Home care companies that shy away from offering live-in caregiver services are often trying to avoid the potential legal risk it may bring to their doorsteps. Under the regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, a live-in caregiver is somebody who is truly living with their client in their private home. “The

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Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Topics: Minnesota Home Care: Year in Review. You are invited to join the Home Care Matters WebEx Series on Fridays this fall hosted by the MDH Health Regulation Division. Date: Friday, October 7, 2022 Time: 12:00 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. Any post-call documents will be added to the website.

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Home Health Care

JULY 25, 2023

Login The post Home-Based Care M&A Likely To Be Affected By ‘Warning Shot’ Sent Out By Regulators appeared first on Home Health Care News. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Get Membership Already a member?

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2021

While the rate for New York home-based care workers checked in at about 86% partially vaccinated and 71% fully vaccinated, at least 34,000 caregivers have not begun the process at all, according to reports from The New York Times. The new data comes from preliminary reports from New York’s Department of Health. That requires a runway.

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Home Health Care

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. and Canada, Best Life Brands CEO J.J. Sorrenti knows these issues intimately.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 11, 2023

Throughout the PHE various waivers, regulations, enforcement discretion, and sub-regulatory guidance were utilized to ensure access to care and give health care providers the flexibilities needed to respond to the PHE. This) is a list of the waivers and flexibilities and their status at the end of the PHE.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2022

Home care providers have always taken measures to ensure that they’re able to hold on to staff – especially amid labor shortages – through clauses in client services contracts prohibiting the direct hire of a caregiver. . The post Why Home Care Providers May Need to Rethink No-Hire Clauses appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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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. The Full Report is found here.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Topics: OHFC Investigations Process and Home Care Complaints. You are invited to join the Home Care Matters WebEx Series hosted by the MDH Health Regulation Division. Date: Friday, December 2, 2022 Time: 12:00 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. Any post-call documents will be added to the website.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

But that shouldn’t deter MA interest for home-based care providers, Andy Friedell, the founder and CEO of healthAlign, said at the Home Health Care News Home Care Conference in December. . “We healthAlign is a convener of home-based care services.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

For Accurate Home Care, the biggest pain point isn’t retention, it’s recruiting new nurses to hire. “If If I had 200 nurses show up in my parking lot, I would hire them all without interviewing them,” Bill English, president and CEO of Accurate Home Care, said in jest at Aging Media Network’s Continuum conference last month.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2022

“At the end of the day, we’re in an industry which has just a crazy amount of regulation coming down the pike,” Brar said. The post In-Home Care Provider PathWell Looking to Double Census, Revenue in 2022 appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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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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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2023

For the first time ever, two of the largest associations representing the home-based care industry have joined together on a call to action regarding the workforce shortage. Higher prices for care would then lead to more need for Medicaid support, something policymakers would have no choice but to pay attention to.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

Specifically, OIG is reviewing EVV progress in accordance with federal and state requirements, along with any developed policies and procedures for ensuring Medicaid beneficiaries receive their qualified in-home care services. In 2014, the improper payment error rate for home health claims was 51.4%, according to U.S.

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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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