How A Home Health Provider Slashed Its Readmission Rate By Nearly Half

At-Home Health Care — Sparta Community Hospital’s home health segment — has made successful care transitions a priority in an effort to lower rehospitalizations and ER visits. Sparta Community Hospital is located in Southern Illinois and is a 25-bed full-service acute care medical facility. At-Home Health Care is a Medicare certified home health agency that […]

Voices from Pre-Claim: Lessons Learned the Hard Way (Part 2)

Click here to read Part 1 of this series. Home health providers in Illinois now sound a little different when discussing Pre-Claim Review (PCR), compared to the early days of the demonstration project. Back in August, after PCR first rolled out, agencies in the Land of Lincoln were angry and frightened—angry at what they perceived […]