Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year, WellBe Senior Medical positioned itself as the “ general contractor ” for home-based care patients. “We’re We’re like the advocate and navigator … when you’re building a home, you’ve got plumbers, you’ve got electricians, you’ve got masons. I learned about consumer health and consumerism from a retailer.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2024

Generally, home health agencies have expressed dissatisfaction with payment rates and reimbursement policies set by managed care companies. Managed care is just a financial tool — much like how population-based health demonstration programs like ACOs are financial tools.” It also has its own health plan.

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APRIL 12, 2024

When it comes to expanding their business portfolios, home health leaders can continue to do what they know best, or they can decide to branch out. Leaders at companies like Choice Health at Home and The LTM Group have found themselves in this exact position. Is one of our other service lines going to suffer?”

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. Telehealth will continue to grow because it fills a void in the mental health space by creating improved access for many individuals who lacked this access previously.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 25, 2024

One of the ways that home health providers are tackling access to care challenges is by focusing on delivering care to home health deserts. Broadly, home health deserts are low-income communities that are the hardest to staff and where people who need home health care are unable to access it.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 26, 2024

While referral volume to home health agencies continues to be higher than pre-pandemic levels, rejection rates continue to be a major pain point for providers. Home health agencies are not only getting more referrals in total, but they are also seeing an uptick in referrals per patient.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While home care providers are working to mitigate headwinds – such as the rising cost of delivering care and staffing challenges – they also have their eye on where the industry goes from here. As 2024 approaches, home care leaders are embracing AI, alternative payer sources, employee-centric solutions and much more.

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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. My wife also works for the same home care agency — Family & Nursing Care. HHCN: What drew you to this industry?

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Home Health Care

APRIL 1, 2024

Seniors Helping Seniors has long distinguished itself from other home care companies by hiring active seniors to serve as caregivers. At Seniors Helping Seniors, the average age of an employee is around 70 years old, and 80% of caregivers are in their 60s and 70s, according to Obeiter.

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Healthcare Success

APRIL 8, 2024

On the first day of class, we learned the fundamental concept of the 4 Ps of marketing. To help my audiences understand the intrinsic value of the 7 goals of marketing, I would often begin with this metaphor: The 7 Ps of marketing are like a ship’s compass. The 7 tactics of marketing can help you: Develop a competitive advantage.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Family caregivers play an important role in states’ efforts to help Medicaid beneficiaries safely remain in their communities. Coverage of SFC services results in Medicaid payments and other support to family caregivers, usually including spouses and others who are legally responsible for the beneficiary. Missouri Medicaid official.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership As home health patients become sicker and more complex, providers have been forced to find ways to keep their care models financially viable. We continue to navigate through a very regulated industry,” Janice Riggins, chief clinical officer at VitalCaring, told Home Health Care News. “We

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 13, 2023

Gilda’s Club Twin Cities, part of the national non-profit Cancer Support Community network, and Equiva Health, a digital patient engagement company, are partnering to provide stand-alone devices configured for at-home use as part of an oncology-specific initiative to address health disparities through discounted broadband funded by a $14.2

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Sanjay Shetty knows home health care is an extremely valuable service. For close to a year now, Shetty has led Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) health care services division, which includes CenterWell Home Health, CenterWell Primary Care and CenterWell Pharmacy. Previously, he was the president of Steward Health Care System.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 12, 2024

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it wasn’t uncommon for home health agencies and other post-acute care providers to beg hospitals to be a part of their post-acute networks. Now, the hospitals are realizing that the patients that they need help discharging don’t always fit into this five star model.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver was a major boost for organizations hoping to implement or expand hospital-at-home programs. 21 2023, 305 hospitalsand 129 systems in 37 states have been approved to provide hospital-at-home care under the CMS waiver program.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The final payment rule reaffirmed that, no matter the amount of on-the-ground testimonial or data the home health industry lays out, the U.S. bump to home health payments in 2024 earlier this month, which was better than the 2.2% Still, the agency went ahead with a 2.6% Still, the agency went ahead with a 2.6%

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) due to its attempt to claw back billions of perceived overpayments from Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. We are disappointed CMS’ final rule did not include a fee-for-service adjuster in the process, which we believe is necessary to determine appropriate payment amounts to MA organizations.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A lot of personal home care providers have been conducting business the same way for decades. One of the biggest opportunities out there is collaboration with your competitors in your local market,” HomeWell Care Services CEO Crystal Franz said during Home Health Care News’ FUTURE event in Nashville.

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Home Health Care

MAY 6, 2024

Home- and community-based services (HCBS) providers can now step in and offer care that would otherwise not be a part of a hospital’s care plan. Home-based care providers can now step in and elevate the level of care and comfort for patients in Rhode Island. Eventually, the option was included in the CARES Act.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

an app designed to streamline the onboarding and training process for home health agencies’ clinicians — a $75,000 Commonwealth Commercialization Fund (CCF) grant. For an agency that is onboarding nurses and therapists, it helps them become field ready, and it predicts field readiness,” Virk says.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership As the cost for home care rises, some providers are finding that clients have more of a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to mistakes or mishaps in care delivery or care planning. They want to know] if this is a trusted brand,” she told Home Health Care News. “Is Wilson said.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Susan Mills, Senior Program Director for Home Health and Hospice, ACHC, to talk about the key compliance challenges, opportunities and trends to watch in the current home-based care environment. This article is sponsored by ACHC.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2024

In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Lynn Carroll, VP Product Management – EHR, Homecare Homebase, to talk about the roots of HCHB in the home-based care industry, and its continued collaboration and partnership with providers as they develop new tools, service lines and features.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 4, 2024

CareScout is trying to make the process of finding quality long-term care – including home care – easier for U.S. We live in arguably the most developed, most successful country in the world. But when it comes time to take care of our aging, we just keep falling behind.” The Joint Commission does the same across health care.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 7, 2023

In an attempt to branch out, more personal home care agencies are looking to acquire companies in other sectors. Best of Care is a Quincy, Massachusetts-based personal home care agency. The company has over 400 home care aides, administrative staff, care managers, nurses and move managers.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In home care, the relationship between the operator and the private equity sponsor can be difficult to manage. Private equity has a really powerful place within our space to offer some assets to an organization like mine,” Family Resource Home Care CEO Jeff Wiberg said on a panel at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE conference last month.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 10, 2024

MedStar Health – a Washington, D.C.-based based health system known to value home-based care – is teaming up with DispatchHealth. DispatchHealth originally made a name for itself as a provider of higher-acuity care services in the home.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2024

“When the 80/20 rule came out, many of us saw this as a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ situation,” Dave Totaro, chief government affairs officer at Bayada Home Health Care, recently said during a Home Health Care News webinar. “On That’s opposed to expenses such as “administrative overhead or profit,” according to the agency.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As we’ve explained before, CEOs and other C-level leaders earn this designation by acting as true owners in creating significant financial, clinical and cultural value,” Guerisoli said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. “We The company’s home health and hospice services segment revenue for the full year 2023 was $394.5

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There are significant differences in home-based medical care utilization between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare beneficiaries. Specifically, having exactly one home-based medical care visit was 31 times as likely for MA beneficiaries, at 18.6%, compared to traditional Medicare beneficiaries at 0.6%. While 2.1%

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 4, 2023

It all depends on who one talks to. Either way, there are plenty who believe that it will transform the way society operates. And its looking to partner with home-based care agencies to further its mission, CEO and co-founder Chris Brickler told Home Health Care News. We are simplifying VR,” Brickler said.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The marketplace for home health providers has become more complex as providers not only have to find and serve patients, but find and convince clinicians to work for them. To do that, staffing companies like connectRN are helping home health providers navigate these new challenges. About a year ago, Amedisys Inc.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Dallas-based private equity firm Havencrest Capital Management has its home care platform. That’s Avid Health at Home, which has aggressive growth plans from the outset. It was created in conjunction with Havencrest’s acquisition of For Papa’s Sake Home Care, which is a personal home care provider in the Chicagoland area.

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership When the “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule was finalized last week, the 80-20 provision stole the show, due to its unpopularity among home-based care leaders. Roughly, 90% of the rule is beneficial, and a good step forward for home- and community-based services,” he told HHCN.

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