At last week’s PAYER Summit, providers, policy experts and payer execs were largely aligned on what will separate successful home-based care organizations from the rest of the pack. Discussions at the event, hosted by Home Health Care News and Skilled Nursing News, included commentary on some notable changes in the payment landscape that have occurred […]
On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, announced a broader push to coordinate payers, providers, technology vendors and developers around shared standards for electronic prior authorization. He set a Jan. 1, 2027, deadline for certain CMS-regulated payers to implement electronic prior authorization interfaces. “When a health care provider […]
Demand for home-based care remains strong – but operational scalability continues to loom as one of the industry’s biggest challenges. New technologies and efficiency-enhancing tools are offering new ways to address operational scalability, but leaders still face a complex set of decisions, from which technologies to adopt to reimbursement strategies, workforce frameworks and care models […]
While the home health care industry faces pressure to sustain margins while innovating care models and reimbursement arrangements, technology has emerged as the critical lever that enables providers to do so – even as tech tools require investments of their own. Uncertainty within the industry, such as that caused by the proposed CY2026 Medicare home […]
This week, I attended the Home Care 100 event in Phoenix, Arizona. From my interviews to hallway conversations, the new models coming out of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center were a frequent topic of discussion. These models are especially critical because private-sector payers are becoming less likely to innovate, according […]
This week, Home Health Care News published two lists of predictions from top home-based care executives for 2026. These lists included insights from 20 executives in non-medical home care and Medicare reimbursed home health on the top challenges, opportunities and trends in the year to come. Parsing through these executives’ predictions, one thing is certainly […]
The home health care industry may still be fighting some familiar battles, including recruitment, retention and reimbursement, but executives are also preparing for a new wave of change expected to accelerate in 2026. As the home has increasingly become the center of the health care ecosystem, innovation has sped up, pushing providers to adopt technologies […]
Home-based care providers have increasingly turned to technology to ease a variety of burdens – with particular enthusiasm for AI-powered documentation support and ambient listening tools. That’s according to the results of a recent Home Health Care News pulse survey, which identified the tools providers are most interested in implementing in their businesses and the […]
One of my favorite parts of being HHCN’s associate editor is guiding our HHCN+ content – the stories and resources that our team invests the most time in and that feature some of the most expert voices in the home-based care industry. In this week’s HHCN+ Update, I’ll review the top stories and takeaways from […]
While there is no single panacea for home-based care providers to overcome business challenges, operate more efficiently and expand operations, technology has repeatedly emerged as a critical component of providers’ strategies for 2025 and beyond. Top of mind for home-based care providers is improving efficiency through AI and predictive analytics, as well as improving patient […]
