With Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment poised to surpass traditional Medicare, home health providers will be forced to engage with plans, or otherwise, be left behind. That’s according to William A. Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Dombi expressed this viewpoint during his keynote speech at the Illinois HomeCare […]
Category: Medicare Advantage
A recent study found that in areas with a higher percentage of people enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, traditional Medicare beneficiaries use less post-acute care services. Additionally, those areas did not see an increase in hospital readmissions, despite the drop in post-acute care services. The study also found that hospital readmissions were lower in […]
The national home care franchise BrightStar Care has once again expanded its corporate-owned footprint, this time with the acquisition of eight locations in Wisconsin. Based in Chicago, BrightStar Care has been significantly growing its corporate-owned footprint lately. With the most recent acquisition of BrightStar franchise locations, the company now fully owns close to 10% of […]
Medicare fee-for-service rates are not where home health providers want them to be. That’s forced their hand when negotiating rates with other payer sources. “We are payer agnostic, but we’re payer selective,” Traditions Health CEO David Klementz said Thursday at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event in Washington, D.C. Traditions Health is a […]
With only a couple years under its belt since its launch, Patina Health – a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based home-focused primary care medical practice – has secured partnerships with multiple major health plans. Patina’s work with payers combines care coordination and primary care services for seniors. For a company that has dubbed itself the “easy button for […]
The acquisition of technology-enabled home health company CareLinx continues to pay off for Sharecare (Nasdaq: SHCR). Under Sharecare ownership, CareLinx has seen “explosive growth,” Sharecare Chairman and CEO Jeff Arnold explained Wednesday during a fourth-quarter earnings call. The growth includes adding 1.8 million new members to CareLinx in 2022 while outpacing revenue expectations. “We expanded […]
Although home health providers want to see as many patients as possible to keep up with demand, it is impossible to do so under current circumstances. With that in mind, providers are questioning why they would willingly take on Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries knowing they’d be sacrificing dollars. Some industry experts believe providers should, at […]
Home care providers have complained about Medicare Advantage (MA) becoming a more mainstream payer source. Still, many have begun to work with MA plans for the first time over the past few years. But now, there’s concern that the government’s crackdown on MA could restrict opportunities even further, particularly when it comes to supplemental benefits. […]
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has a new CEO. During the transition of power, we are likely to find out a lot about what the company’s future looks like. As one of the largest, independent aging-in-place providers in the country, Amedisys’ next moves will send ripple effects throughout the home health and hospice space. And, by […]
Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to offer supplemental benefits, those benefits’ popularity has skyrocketed. Those benefits, broadly, fall into two categories: Expanded Primarily-Health Related Benefits (EPHRB) and Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI). Their existence alone has changed how home care providers interact […]
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