On Sunday, March 22, when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York Department of Health announced that in-home caregivers had to be screened for COVID-19 before entering a client’s home, Stacy Marzik of Alliance Homecare immediately wondered how the company would screen its more than 300 caregivers. Marzik is operations manager at New […]
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The COVID-19 crisis is rapidly reshaping the needs and burdens of our national health system. Not only are the number of confirmed cases rising exponentially, but because of that influx of patients, hospitals are changing the way they intake, care for and discharge patients. As a result, hospitals are more inclined to discharge non-COVID patients […]
This article is sponsored by health care mergers and acquisitions advisory firm Stoneridge Partners. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Executive Vice President and Partner Joe Lynch of Stoneridge Partners, and learns why Lynch left the world of health care operations to get into mergers and acquisitions, the top pitfall […]
This article is sponsored by Forcura. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Forcura CEO and founder Craig Mandeville to learn about the gaps he saw in the referral and order management process that led him to found his company, how home health providers are tapping into data to address the […]
EVV is here to stay. Since the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, Electronic Visit Verification, or EVV, has rewritten the parameters by which providers of Medicaid personal care services (PCS) and home health services log their visits. Technically, the Cures Act mandates that all Medicaid-funded PCS use EVV as of Jan. […]
New Year’s Day brought a new era for Electronic Visit Verification (EVV), as the 21st Century Cures Act ushered in the mandate that all states must implement EVV for all Medicaid personal care services (PCS) that require in-home care visits. States that fail to do so are subject to incremental Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) […]
One of the many challenges home health agencies face is how to stay compliant with ever-changing payroll requirements. That makes 2020, with its broad set of complex changes, a crucial year for home-based care agencies. With new federal laws — starting with a more demanding W-4 form — in addition to already complex federal and […]
This article is sponsored by Stoneridge Partners. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Tom Lillis, associate partner at Stoneridge Partners and leader of the new Stoneridge Strategic Consulting Group. Tom tells us what impact he expects the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) to have on the industry in 2020 and why […]
Ask home health operators for their top challenge in 2020, and again and again, the answer comes back: staffing. In the 2019 State of Home Health Care Staffing Survey from Home Health Care News, 66% of respondents said that staffing challenges are “very impactful” on their organizations’ ability to grow business. But dig a little […]
This article is sponsored by Simione Healthcare Consultants. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sat down with Simione Healthcare Consultants Managing Principal William “Billy” Simione III to get his take on the biggest challenges for home health and hospice providers in 2020, what data points and metrics home health and hospice providers should […]