During the comment period for the 2024 home health proposed payment rule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) received a host of responses from providers, industry advocates and other home-based care stakeholders. Chief among their concerns was the impact that the rule – if finalized in its current form – would have […]
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Since the start of his career as a primary care, internal medicine physician, Dr. Richard Feifer has sat at the intersection of geriatrics, population health and value-based payment models. The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model has long been a passion of his. This made him the perfect person to serve as […]
This article is sponsored by CareAcademy. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Robyn Lunsford, CareAcademy’s Chief Growth Officer, to talk about how training automation helps agency owners and leaders get back to their ‘why’ for working in this industry. They enter the profession with the best of intentions but can […]
When it was first announced that the home health giant LHC Group was being acquired in March 2022, it wasn’t shocking. What was shocking, at least to some, was the buyer – UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum. Though Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) had already acquired Kindred at Home, UnitedHealth Group getting into the mix was […]
Last year, home-based care companies far and wide experienced impressive growth. Among those were organizations that recently grabbed spots on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies. Home Health Care News sat down with a few of those providers to find out how they continue to grow at such a rapid rate. Serving seniors […]
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, several new at-home care models were thrust into the spotlight. One of the models — skilled nursing facility care at home, or SNF-at-home — gained a lot of attention as traditional SNFs struggled. Enthusiasm for that model has since waned, especially in comparison to others, like hospital at […]
There’s not a single home-based care provider that doesn’t have a staffing issue, whether that be in recruiting, retention or both. In order to combat that reality, BrightStar Care and Chamberlain University are teaming up and launching a home health care didactic course under the latter’s Practice-Ready, Specialty-Focused model. The Chicago-based BrightStar Care providers home-based […]
In some ways, addressing access-to-care issues is the ethos behind all at-home care. Moving care into the home, after all, eliminates numerous barriers that keep individuals from receiving care. Even though closing care gaps is in home-based care providers’ DNA, some are taking that a step further and focusing on a set of very specific […]
At its core, Best of Care is a family business. But that hasn’t stopped the Quincy, Massachusetts-based personal home care agency from thinking big and evolving. Best of Care has over 400 home care aides, administrative staff, care managers, nurses and move managers. The company also has a care management division, TUCKed In Eldercare. Earlier […]
One of the most renowned hospitals in the U.S. recently celebrated the three-year anniversary of its hospital-at-home program. In 2019, Mayo Clinic CEO Gianrico Farrugia stated that high-acuity home care would be part of not only Mayo Clinic’s future, but the health care industry’s at large. With that declaration, Mayo Clinic launched the Advanced Care […]
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