Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

According to her LinkedIn, the roles she held at Steward Health Care include: COO; EVP of operations; SVP of corporate operations; SVP and chief of staff; VP of operations and strategic initiatives, senior director of primary care and medical specialties; and director of practice operations.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The agreement is designed to improve the health of Highmark’s members by providing accessible, high quality, cost effective, patient centered care through member collaboration and innovation. News and World Report’s High Performing Hospitals and Best Regional Hospitals, among others.

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Urgent Care Hospice Care Integration Primary Care 52

Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2024

Some of those may be related just to rehospitalizations, some may be a combination of hospitalizations and ED usage, and then also looking at quality metrics as well.” Based in Frisco, Texas, Addus provides personal care, home health care and hospice care to over 49,000 consumers through 214 locations spanning 22 states.

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Hospice Care Medicare Hospitals Healthcare 59

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Resilient is a Plano, Texas-based home-centered management services organization that works with home health providers on hospital-at-home and care management services. We’ve created a digital platform to be able to provide virtual care for patients, so that we could recreate that hospital setting,” Samuel said. “We

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Home Care Primary Care Hospice Care Hospitals 89

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“There were some [accountable care organizations] that we pursued and started working with closely, the hospitals, and we really wanted to make sure we had contracts with all the major [Medicare Advantage] players in our area. Overall, HealthFlex Home Health & Hospice remains ambitious when it comes to growth goals.

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Medicare Hospice Care Accountable Care Hospitals 98

Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2023

Those trends are especially noteworthy amid looming payment rate cuts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). They’re starting to reduce the administrative pieces of jobs so that those workers can focus more on clinical care.” They are also causing home health providers to redefine operational best practices.

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Home Health Care

MAY 31, 2023

-based NHPCO is the largest membership organization for providers and health care professionals who care for people affected by serious and life-limiting illness. Oftentimes, palliative care is conflated with hospice care services. Alivia Care is a provider of home health, hospice and palliative care services.

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Hospice Care Medicare Hospitals Nursing 96

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 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. Jeffrey Briggs, the director of intake at the Maryland-based Family & Nursing Care, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Nursing Home Care Hospice Care Accountability 99

Home Health Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Overall, Amedisys at the end of last year had 346 Medicare-certified home health care centers in nearly three dozen states, according to its annual report. One possibility could be examining payer mix or a market’s Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration as part of a divestment strategy. Medicare revenue on the year came in at $874.2

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Medicare Regulations Hospice Care Accountability 59

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 19, 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. Jordan Kunkel, clinical supervisor at the Texas-based Healing Hands Healthcare, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Joseph Cauterucci, the president and CEO of Avalon In-Home Nursing and Rehabilitation, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Rehabilitation Nursing Hospice Care Medicare 98

NASHP

MARCH 14, 2022

High-quality palliative care can both improve quality of life and avoid unnecessary and often unwanted treatments for Medicaid enrollees with serious illness. States can support palliative care in a number of ways and across a range of settings (e.g., in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health).

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Medicaid Rehabilitation Quality Assurance Patient Experience 94

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 31, 2022

For further information, visit the Hospice Center | CMS webpage. Proposed Medicare Hospice Payment Policies: This proposed rule proposes a permanent, budget neutral approach to smooth year-to-year changes in the hospice wage index. hospice payment update for FY 2023 is based on the estimated 3.1% The proposed 2.7%

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Hospice Care Medicare Medicaid Hospitals 52

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Our growth strategy at Charter is to really focus on palliative care and complex care management services, making sure that we’re keeping patients out of the hospital.”. In August, Charter Health Care Group purchased Generations Hospice Care Inc.

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Hospice Care Nursing Medicare Hospitals 59

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Aaron Stapleton, founder and CEO of the Cincinnati-based Trinity In Home Care, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Care Nursing Hospice Care Hospitals 98

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

“We really believe that that’s going to be the way that you succeed financially,” Ponder-Stansel told Home Health Care News. The Jacksonville, Florida-based Alivia Care provides home health care, hospice care, personal care, palliative care, advanced care planning and other services across Northern Florida and Southern Georgia.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. David Chandler, senior director of strategic programs at the Towson, Maryland-based Senior Helpers, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Care Nursing Hospice Care Prevention 85

Home Health Care

JUNE 7, 2022

The ability to deliver higher-acuity care in the home is now table stakes. That’s especially true for health plans and health systems following the introduction of the COVID-related Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in November 2020.

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Hospitals Home Care Hospice Care Prevention 106

NASHP

MARCH 15, 2023

Palliative care can be an important component of these strategies. Palliative care is an interdisciplinary service addressing the symptoms and stresses of serious illness. Unlike hospice care, palliative care can benefit people with serious illness prior to end-of-life and is provided concurrently with curative treatment.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Adults may receive benefits along with curative care until they choose to receive hospice. Access to care coordination.

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Medicaid Hospice Care Integration Regulations 102

NASHP

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The results show high levels of prevalence across many of these serious illnesses within the Disabled and LTSS populations, including the LTSS Dual populations (members are dually eligible if they qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare). This is due to the acute care cost largely being covered by Medicare for these members.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Landers: I grew up in health care. My mom was an occupational therapist and a hospital administrator, so it always felt like that was the path to follow. Home health care, for me, is the most important part of health care. Home care is right at the center of an effective health care system.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Home Health Care News: Why don’t we all just talk about what your organization does and what you do for them? Ashley Puchalski: I’m with Ohio’s Hospice. We service about 60 of the 88 counties in Ohio, providing hospice care throughout the state.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 6, 2023

In addition to funding, the Act modifies certain telehealth provisions, expands and extends components of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and supports initiatives within the behavioral health and substance use treatment spaces. Recertification of Eligibility for Hospice Care. Medicare Extension & Adjustments.

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Healthcare Medicaid Medicare Hospitals 52

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 17, 2022

Here’s a look at the contents: “Projections for the Future : Total annual payments for health care, long-term care and hospice care for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias are projected to increase from $321 billion in 2022 to just under $1 trillion in 2050 (in 2022 dollars).

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Medicare Hospice Care Primary Care Medicaid 105

Home Health Care

JUNE 12, 2023

The Brentwood, Tennessee-based Compassus provides home health care, infusion therapy, palliative care and hospice care services through 200 locations across 30 states. Two huge parts of that are hospitalization rates and the patient experience. This approach establishes the framework and the runway to do that.”

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Hospice Care Hospitals Patient Experience Medicare 95

Home Health Care

APRIL 20, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is making ownership data for all Medicare-certified home health and hospice agencies publicly available. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the news early Thursday. HHS is doing so in the name of “promoting competition” and “protecting consumers.”

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Hospice Care Medicare Medicaid Nursing 96

Etactics

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Such issues may include navigating billing models, payer requirements, and complicated Medicare guidelines. State Medicaid and Medicare Part D plans make up the primary payers. Other payers include contracts with nursing homes for patients covered under Medicare Part A and private insurers. Sent to a hospice care plan.

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Medicare Nursing Hospice Care Patient Safety 52

Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing ownership data for all Medicare-certified hospice and home health agencies. It’s plain and simple: families deserve transparency when making decisions about hospice and home health care for their loved ones,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

You also led value-based care at CareMore Health Plan and Healthcare Partners, correct? Both were premier organizations in the value-based care arena and really helped to mold a lot of my thinking on how to deliver innovative, high-quality, but really cost-effective care. I thought, what the heck?

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Home Care Nursing Hospitals Prevention 102

NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

Reach out to state professional and hospital associations. Use the state’s palliative care task force as a resource. How Palliative Care Supports People with Serious Illness Matt, paralyzed in a car accident, was experiencing breathing problems, anxiety, and nerve pain.

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Medicaid Quality Assurance Quality of Care Hospitals 52

HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2023

care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments.

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Physical Therapy Primary Care Rehabilitation Medicare 52

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Home Health Care News recently sat down with Dombi during an episode of HHCN+ TALKS to chat about the upcoming final rule, the Medicare Advantage fight that will be a “generational” battle” and much more. We need to have that continued as a recognized value within the Medicare program today even more so.

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Medicare Home Care Medicaid Regulations 114

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Seeking quick returns, these investors are buying into eye care clinics, dental management chains, physician practices, hospices, pet care providers, and thousands of other companies that render medical care nearly from cradle to grave. The agency reportedly also is investigating whether U.S.

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Doctors Tricare Medicaid Medical Services 145

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Seeking quick returns, these investors are buying into eye care clinics, dental management chains, physician practices, hospices, pet care providers, and thousands of other companies that render medical care nearly from cradle to grave. The agency reportedly also is investigating whether U.S.

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Doctors Tricare Medicaid Medical Services 52