Medicare-reimbursement cuts to home health agencies in 2023 threaten to destabilize the workforce, namely through handcuffing operators by limiting their ability to offer competitive compensation. The 2023 home health proposed payment rule from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeks to cut agency payments by an aggregate 4.2%, or $810 million, next […]
It’s no secret that the home health proposed payment rule for 2023 is viewed unfavorably by the majority of stakeholders. It has received pushback for a number of reasons – namely a rate cut – but many also believe that if the rule is finalized, it will threaten care for complex home health patients. What’s […]
The in-home companionship company Papa went from a scrappy startup to a nationally recognized brand partnering with some of the largest payers in the country in a very short period of time. But no startup’s journey is completely smooth, as just about any entrepreneur will tell you. And in July, the company was forced to […]
Home-based care providers are regularly touting their ability to establish and cultivate organizational culture. One of the ways to do that is to create clear paths for employees at all levels to be promoted. “Agencies — especially in home care and hospice — want to create a culture that they want to be known for,” […]
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group is attached to one of the top health systems and educational institutions in the country. It’s often a place where health care breakthroughs take place and new home-based care ideas are formed. And yet it still deals with pain points that are all too familiar to most home-based care agencies […]
Taking risk has been a hot topic on the home health and home care conference circuits for some time now. That will heat up more moving forward. Two realities are driving providers to take on risk themselves. Home health providers, in particular, could be in sink-or-swim territory in five months. All the while, payers have […]
Whether it’s home health, personal or in-home primary care, many home-based care advocacy groups and trade associations have been able to establish their organizations as champions of a particular lane. It’s upon this foundation that the Washington, D.C.-based Moving Health Home has been able to lay the groundwork for its goal of mobilizing policymakers to […]
Demand for home-based care continues to rise. Thus, more workers are needed. What sounds like a simple equation to solve theoretically is far more complex in practice – getting “more workers” is easier said than done. Still, in order to satisfy that demand, home care agencies are getting creative. Whether by leveraging certain training or […]
The home-based care provider Resilient Healthcare has partnered with the Dallas-based White Rock Medical Center (WRMC) on transitional care and hospital-at-home programs. Resilient – which has high-acuity patient population focus – pitched its capabilities originally to Pipeline Health, WRMC’s parent company. Pipeline owns six additional hospital systems in the U.S., meaning this could be the […]
Just one month after its purchase of One Medical (Nasdaq: ONEM) for $3.9 million, Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) reportedly has its eye on another health care entity. This time around its Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY), a value-based care platform with home-based care capabilities. Signify is potentially for sale in an auction that could value it at […]
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