Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The February 2023 quarterly refresh for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. For additional information, please see the FY2023 Hospice Wage Index Final Rule at [link].

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2021

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

This weekly recap focuses on why the United States “stayed the unfavorable course” in Afghanistan, the Ohio train derailment, state data on gun deaths, and more.

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Healthy Debate

JUNE 23, 2020

Virtual care is probably the most visible and stark change. The COVID-19 global pandemic has led to many paradigm shifts in the delivery of healthcare.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

People who receive home health care during the last three years of their lives are more likely to utilize hospice care at the end of life. What’s more, these older adults were more likely to use hospice compared to individuals who have never used home health care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Everyone in home-based care wants to get further into value- and risk-based contracting. Some providers believe that honing in on just one or two core service lines – like home health and hospice care, for example – is the best way to go. No one can agree on the best way to do so.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Amedisys is one of the largest providers of home health and hospice care in the country. Its 521 care centers and 19,000 employees span 37 states and the District of Columbia. UnitedHealth Group’s Optum agreed to acquire Amedisys last June.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 1, 2024

The Clearwater, Florida-based Empath Health provides hospice, home health care, palliative care, grief services, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), adult day services, primary care, physician services and more. It is the parent company of 17 affiliates and two philanthropic foundations.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 30, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Hospice care is for terminally ill patients who decide to forgo curative treatment and instead receive palliative care. Hospice care generally includes nursing and aide services, drugs, and supplies.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 13, 2023

Healthcare systems can now configure the use of any available standard rules for exchanging healthcare data (FHIR API) fields to generate greater reporting using the AMN Healthcare Language Services portal, which helps healthcare systems adhere to industry compliance and joint commission requirements.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 29, 2023

Tennessee Quality Care serves an average daily census of about 1,800 patients through 17 locations, and was formerly owned by American Health Partners. The provider’s biggest service line is home health care, but it also provides private-duty nursing and hospice care. “We

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2022

This is its fourth of its acquisitions, one of which is Senior Helpers, which offers in-home personal care services. Advocate Aurora is building out its portfolio of technologies and services for its aging patients, including home health and hospice care.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

When a patient is treated for a diagnosis associated with hospice care, but the physician participating in the patient’s treatment is not compensated by or employed by Hospice, a GV modifier is added to the claims. In this case, the doctor’s procedure had nothing to do with their training in hospice care.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2023

These donations are part of UnitedHealthcare’s commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of the most underserved and, particularly, the population aging at home.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Additionally, we’ve expanded our virtual care program to reach patients beyond home care episodes. We are enthusiastic about the ongoing development of our virtual care program and are actively exploring opportunities to expand our palliative and hospice care service lines.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The other is Optum, which is a diversified health care services provider that delivers primary, specialty, urgent, surgical and home health and hospice care to about 103 million consumers. The first is UnitedHealthcare, which is one of the largest insurance providers in the country.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Enhancing program integrity in noninstitutional care settings, such as home health and hospice care. In FY 2022, criminal charges were brought against 21 defendants for their alleged activities exploiting COVID-19 programs.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Aveanna provides pediatric care, home health care and hospice care to patients in 33 states. The company went public in 2021, transforming from strictly a pediatric care provider to a large home health and hospice enterprise through acquisition.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2024

I will tell you, just as we were in our discussion about hospice care, home health care — which is a growing industry as well — is something that we’re trying to monitor more closely. We are constantly doing program integrity work in this field as well.

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Home Health Care

MAY 4, 2023

The combined company will now be able to deliver home health care, hospice care, palliative care, high-acuity care and infusion services, providing a genuine full continuum in the home. There are many reasons why this deal makes strategic sense. The overlap in home-based services makes sense.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 3, 2021

“Since then, none of these fundamentals have changed: We’re still in the middle of the COVID-19 public health emergency, there is still a national shortage of health care workers, and hospice care remains essential.”. The American Hospital Association (AHA) has likewise called for urgent action.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Clair Health, and Washington Health System, Bridges collaborates with both independent and employed medical staff to deliver an integrated regional network of care, supported by over 1,000 physicians. Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Virginia Health Services is a provider of home health, palliative and hospice care, and also offers senior housing and other nursing services. Eric Gommel — chief strategy officer at Virginia Health Services — is also focused on workforce development due to this acuity creep.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Impact of hospice care on family costs. Medication adherence measurement: claims vs. pharmacy fill data. Patients’ free choice of physicians is not always good ” Digital Health funding stats. Academic research on digital health. Impact of VBID for patients with diabetes. Being sick is a full-time job ”.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 1, 2023

This fact sheet discusses the major provisions of the final rule, including the annual update to hospice payments and the aggregate cap amount for FY 2024.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2023

But what we’ve learned in the past few years is we actually can do more clinically complex care at home.” The Brentwood, Tennessee-based Compassus is a provider of home health care, infusion therapy, palliative care and hospice care. It has more than 200 locations across 30 states.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 9, 2023

Chaguturu noted that the most exciting part of the care-to-home trend is the range of services that can now be provided safely in the home, including hospital-level care and hospice care. How do we make sure that we have services in a home that help enable your health care experience?”

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Before Optum came into the picture, Option Care Health leaders painted the picture of an end-end health care continuum in the home.

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Home Health Care

MAY 18, 2023

The Amedisys and Option Care merger will allow the combined companies to offer home health care, hospice care, palliative care, high-acuity care and infusion services.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 16, 2022

Background checks for employees of long-term-care facilities are an important safety measure that can help protect some of the facilities’ most vulnerable populations.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 5, 2022

Brentwood, Tennessee-based Compassus offers home health care services, plus infusion therapy, palliative care and hospice care. Grams’ emphasis on delivering a full continuum of home-based care falls in line with these larger efforts. The company operates in 200 locations across 30 states.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It specifically mentions a “significant opportunity to expand AccentCare’s relationships with health systems and payers.” “She has seen firsthand the value of home health and hospice care within the continuum of post-acute services and understands the critical needs an organization like AccentCare is working to solve,” Petrone continued.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 22, 2023

WellSky Shows Transitions of Care Success with New Referral Management Tool; Netsmart Fails to Deliver Third- Party Interfaces for Transitions: As previously mentioned in KLAS’ Transitions of Care report, fax remains the primary transfer method for patients entering hospice care, despite the development of referral management tools.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Interim HealthCare — Rank: 65 — System Sales: $1,288,000,000 — Total Locations: 655 — The Sunrise, Florida-based company – a part of Caring Brands International — provides personal care, hospice care, palliative care, pediatric care and staffing services.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Wilmington, North Carolina-based Well Care Health provides home health and hospice care to over 4,000 patients via its over 600 employees. The home care segment represented about 7% of its overall net revenue. We see a tremendous amount of opportunity to grow responsibly through those two operating divisions.”

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Home Health Care

MARCH 13, 2023

The Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Amedisys is one of the largest providers of home health and hospice care in the country. Its 20,000 employees deliver care through 532 care centers across 37 states and the District of Columbia. It also provides high-acuity care in the home through its subsidiary, Contessa Health.

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