The at-home companionship company Papa has made what it believes to be a crucial hire. Jane Yu has joined as the head of trust and safety. “The work that Papa is doing is very personal to me,” Yu told Home Health Care News. “My mother worked as a professional caregiver. My father injured himself after […]
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Telehealth can be a useful tool for health care organizations – including home-based care providers – looking to beef up their resources and increase access to care. But virtual care still has its limitations. That’s one key takeaway from a recent study from the University of Texas at Austin published in Information Systems Research. The […]
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) pointed out Wednesday that only 1% of care in the U.S. is delivered in the home. It also pointed out that it would like to play a part in changing that. Before brick-and-mortar hospitals and facilities became the center of the U.S. health care system, as much as 40% of care […]
Signify Health – a part of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) – recently rolled out a comprehensive in-home kidney health evaluation as part of its diagnostic and preventive services offerings. Overall, 37 million adults in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, and many of those cases are undiagnosed, according to data from the CDC. “Kidney disease […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model this week. Stakeholders are already weighing in on how the model may affect home-based care agencies. “We’re very pleased with that announcement, and it is certainly something that we’re going to explore,” Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) COO […]
On the journey to becoming more of a health care services provider, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is experiencing some bumps in the road. Those bumps aren’t anything the company’s leaders are worried about long term, though, and both of the its recent acquisitions – Signify Health and Oak Street Health – continue to be touted. […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new voluntary nationwide dementia care model on Monday. Dubbed the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, its goal is to “support people living with dementia and their unpaid caregivers.” But the ramifications of the new model, which is set to go live on July […]
While Medicare Advantage (MA) has been spotlighted as a potential new source of revenue for home care providers over the last couple of years, long-term care insurance (LTCI) has gone under the radar. Increasingly, home care providers have become bullish on LTCI plans and the untapped opportunities they may offer. “There’s massive potential, and they […]
Last year, DocGo Inc. (Nasdaq: DCGO) and HealthCare Partners NY completed a successful pilot centered around closing care gaps by delivering care in the home. On Thursday, DocGo announced that it was building on the success of this pilot by forming an expanded partnership with HealthCare Partners NY to offer care to patients in New […]
As home care providers increasingly embrace creative solutions to long-standing industry challenges, the use of engagement platforms, or “gamification,” has become more common. This means that more companies that can aid providers with this process are emerging on the scene. One of the newest is New York-based Ava — an AI rewards platform that serves […]
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