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Home Health Users Have Higher Likelihood Of Hospice Utilization

Home Health Care

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. Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who passed away in 2019, and were enrolled for at least three years before their death.

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Getting To Know Laura Tortorella, The Next CEO Of AccentCare

Home Health Care

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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Bridges Health Partners Highmark BCBS Form Commercial Value-Based Care Agreement

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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. Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

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VCU Health Brings Hospital-At-Home Program To Central Virginia

Home Health Care

VCU Health at Home’s service lines includes home-based primary care, primary and specialty telehealth appointments, remote patient monitoring as well as skilled home health and hospice care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care At Home waiver program. “We

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Inside 2 Emerging Risk-Based Home Care Models

Home Health Care

Homeward is a tech-enabled home-based primary care provider. Its partnership with the Medicare Advantage (MA) plan Priority Health is one way it’s leveraging risk. “[We The company has a team of clinicians that work in care pods. Those clinicians deliver care through its mobile clinics and local partner locations.

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How States Can Embed Palliative Care in Health Care Reform Initiatives

NASHP

Unlike hospice care, palliative care can benefit people with serious illness prior to end-of-life and is provided concurrently with curative treatment. State Solutions and Promising Practices Many models and Medicaid authorities already provide a framework for providing palliative care services.

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

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).