Home Health Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Home health providers are now just weeks away from finding out what their fee-for-service reimbursement fate will be for CY2024. Ahead of that, home health leaders are still speaking out about the importance of advocacy – and what that advocacy has done for them and their peers over the years.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Personal home care and home health care are both branches connected to the post-acute care family tree. As such, home care leaders believe that there are numerous ways that their organizations can help alleviate home health provider pain points.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 5, 2023

Industry groups argue the payment cuts will exacerbate an already shaky financial situation for home health providers.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

With over 400,000 data points, a new study from LeadingAge could give home-based care providers a new roadmap on how to optimize performance. The study also found that 92% of agency respondents use telehealth, with 44% of those continuing to use telehealth after patient discharge for population health initiatives.?.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2023

Back in October, Hospice and Home Care of Juneau closed after 20 years in business. A month earlier, Trinity Health At Home in Springfield, Illinois, shut its doors and laid off 60 employees. Home health insiders believe that this trend is troubling not just for providers in jeopardy, but for the industry as a whole.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Amid much chatter regarding the classification of workers in home-based care, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has clawed more than $1 million in wages from two agencies. That rule could have significant ripple effects in home care and home health care. It has a pretty significant effect on home care.”

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Home health agencies continued to make a major contribution to the U.S. Overall, home health agencies contributed toward 1.49 Overall, home health agencies contributed toward 1.49 While agencies had a significant impact on the U.S. million jobs and 1.54 million jobs, respectively.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

A home health agency has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to a health care program for Department of Energy workers. The Wisconsin-based Atlantic Home Health Care (AHH) is a home health care agency that operates in nine states.

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Home Health Care

JULY 31, 2023

The number of Medicare-certified home health agencies in the United States continues to dwindle, the latest data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reveals. While not a dramatic drop, the decrease in the home health provider ranks is important considering pending cuts from the U.S.

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Home Health Care

JULY 11, 2023

Home health and hospice M&A experts see it as a significant development that could affect both subsectors. Login The post How The 36-Month Rule’s Implementation In Hospice Will Affect Home Health Agencies appeared first on Home Health Care News. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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Home Health Care

JULY 5, 2022

A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that hospitals with a greater local supply of home health agencies were associated with increased readmissions. For home health agencies, it was another story. Most of the results made sense to us,” Griffith said.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 20, 2022

Home health agencies and other Medicare-reimbursed health care providers are just a couple weeks away from the return of sequestration. For many agencies, the restart of the 2% cut will merely be a return to normal, pre-pandemic business. Need more than 5 members? Contact us for more information. * per member.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It’s easy to understand why many home health agencies today are focused on fighting and advocating against a significant cut to reimbursement rates. The post How Home Health Agencies Could Trim Costs Ahead Of Medicare Rate Cuts appeared first on Home Health Care News. Need more than 5 members?

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 24, 2023

With the home care industry at a “pivot point,” it’s important for providers to take more control over their near- and long-term futures. I think where we have an immediate opportunity is in how to partner with skilled home health,” Slupecki said. “I Many home care companies believe they are capable of doing more in the home.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Given their shared goals of closing care gaps, home-based primary care providers should be home health providers’ natural ally. We’re all working in our own little silos, and don’t really understand the incentives and challenges of each other,” she told Home Health Care News. That could change soon, however.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Government Accountability Office (GAO) has signed off on the home health payment rule finalized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last month. The final rule comes with an estimated increase to 2023 home health payments of 0.7%, or $125 million, compared to 2022 aggregate payments.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

David Klementz left Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) to become the CEO of Traditions Health in April of last year. Like many others, he saw the future value in delivering care in the home. Since then, he’s helped build one of the fastest-growing home health agencies in the space. . Need more than 5 members?

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Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2022

Home health operators should dig in even further ahead of the Medicare reimbursement battle coming later this year. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2023 proposed payment rule for the nursing home industry earlier this month. In it, the agency called for a 3.9% Need more than 5 members?

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It may be an overused quote at this point, but it’s one Kameron Matthews can’t help but come back to when thinking about the health care system in the U.S. CityBlock Health, a provider startup focused on marginalized populations with complex needs, is trying to do just that. North Carolina, Ohio and Indiana.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 18, 2022

InHome Therapy wants to be the ultimate problem solver in home health care as the industry undergoes a number of regulatory and workforce-related challenges. The company functions as a full outsourcing partner for home health agencies. The company recently acquired Contract Therapy Services Inc.,

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2024

As such, home health agencies have started to adjust operations to better fit the payer landscape in the future, and not just now. Agencies in states like Michigan, Hawaii and Alabama have already had to do that — and those transitions haven’t been seamless. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 18, 2022

Supreme Court on Thursday threw its support behind the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, while simultaneously axing a vaccine-or-test rule for large employers. Last week’s developments shouldn’t shock the in-home care operators that have been following the U.S. They have until Feb. Source: CMS.

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2023

Many home-based care providers tend to offer both home health and hospice services. Thus, home health leaders pay close attention to proposed rule in hospice. Home health providers are still weeks away from getting a glimpse at their proposed rule for 2024. That is, of course, a proposed element.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

High-quality home health agencies are often out of reach for the most vulnerable Medicare patients, new findings published Monday in the journal Health Affairs reveal. That’s true even when controlling for patients’ unique clinical characteristics, according to the Health Affairs study. Out of the 3.1

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Sprinter Health – an on-demand mobile health startup – has raised a lot of money since it was founded at the beginning of last year. The company, which partners with home-based care agencies, has taken a slow-and-steady approach to spending that money as it figures out what works in the home and what doesn’t.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Post-acute care volume trends continue to suggest that the shift to home is here to stay. Other data, however, also suggests there’s a widening gap between hospital referrals to the home health setting and agencies’ ability to accept new cases. Home health acceptance rates.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Now that the final home health payment rule for 2022 has been floating around for a few days, industry insiders have had time to pick it apart and zero in on key changes, including the nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model. This delay will give home health providers across the U.S.

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Home Health Care

JULY 12, 2022

A recent and encouraging trend in the home-based scare space has been the use of EMS workers as fill-ins when there are staff shortages. . When these workers are able to fill in these gaps in home health and home care, they report back higher job satisfaction as a result. . Individual Membership $400 per year. per member.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

a provider of home health, private-duty home care and community health services in Kenosha, Wisconsin. “We We are pleased to expand our home health operations deeper into southern Wisconsin,” Pennant CEO Brent Guerisoli said in a press statement. The Pennant Group Inc. Need more than 5 members? per member.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The drop in transaction volume at the high end of the home health market has cleared an interesting path for smaller standalone agencies. Investment experts are seeing strong demand and valuations for mom-and-pops, and those smaller providers are seeing it themselves.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2024

The Food & Drug Administration’s device center launched an initiative to promote at-home medical device development with a focus on health equity in at-home care. Medical devices and other innovations that make acute and on-going at-home clinical management possible are receiving a boost in attention from FDA.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the largest home health groups in New York has agreed to pay millions of dollars to resolve wage-and-hour violations. The home health group is made up of Intergen Health LLC and Amazing Home Care Services LLC, which share ownership and employees. The restitution will be split up into two phases.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2022

Home health providers should brace themselves for a potential Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) battle with the U.S. 1, 2020, PDGM is the largest overhaul to how Medicare-certified home health agencies are paid in two decades. But COVID-19 threw a wrench in every agency’s plans. “We Implemented on Jan.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 13, 2021

National home health spending ballooned past $110 billion in late 2020, and with nearly 90% of Americans aged 50 and older wanting to age in place , the importance that home health providers hold within the health care continuum continues to rise. Remote patient monitoring. Telehealth.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 31, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Q4CY22 release of the Home Health Agency (HHA) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is now available for download through the PEPPER Resources Portal. Do you have questions or comments about PEPPER?

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for increased oversight of the sector, according to | The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for (..)

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Jason Banks, VP of Post Acute Business Development at nVoq and Jennifer Maxwell, CEO of Maxwell Healthcare Associates. Home Health Care News: Can you provide a brief background for the audience on yourselves and your company?

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