Home-based care industry insiders are encouraged by the steps the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking in releasing its first ever home- and community-based services (HCBS) quality measures. While it’s still early in the process, experts believe now is the time for providers to begin talks with state agencies in order to […]
A new bill that would prevent the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from reducing home health payments this year – and until 2026 – was introduced in the Senate Monday afternoon. Dubbed The Preserving Access to Home Health Act, the bill was introduced by Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), […]
Home care providers have always taken measures to ensure that they’re able to hold on to staff through clauses in client-services contracts prohibiting the direct hire of a caregiver. That’s especially true amid labor shortages. Now, various government agencies are cracking down on these measures. “Government authorities, such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and in […]
The public health emergency (PHE) was once considered an oasis of sorts, both for home health agencies and health systems looking to deliver hospital-level care in the home. But after being active for two and a half years, the length of it – and the continued, but uncertain, prolonging of it – is causing problems […]
PathWell started as a technology company with the goal to help other operators with back-end issues. When COVID-19 hit, everything changed. The Connecticut-based company, at the direction of co-founder and CEO Raman Brar, decided to change the direction of the company to become a provider itself. Over the past two years, PathWell has grown into […]
Several digital health darlings that have raised tens of millions of dollars over the past few years are now scrambling to survive. Those focused on home-based care — for the most part — tend to be the exception. Economic uncertainty, regulatory pressure and other factors have contributed to a dip in digital health investment in […]
Though it sometimes may not feel like it, the expiration of the public health emergency (PHE) will, one day, come. And when it does, that will have ramifications on home health providers specifically, and home-based care more generally. With the declaration came a handful of waivers and flexibilities meant to alleviate the harsh impacts of […]
Here I am, yet again, writing about the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule for the home health care industry. But it’s no small deal. Advocates were in Washington, D.C., this week to desperately argue on behalf of the industry that the rule was unfair. In doing that, they displayed the […]
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is one of the most influential health care entities in the United States. It having the health insurance giant Aetna underneath its umbrella is no small part of that. As some of the larger retailers in the U.S. have gotten further into home-based care – including Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA), […]
A recent and encouraging trend in the home-based scare space has been the use of EMS workers as fill-ins when there are staff shortages. When these workers are able to fill in these gaps in home health and home care, they report back higher job satisfaction as a result. So it makes sense, then, that […]
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