Rising costs, the return of Medicare sequestration, labor shortages and higher patient acuity levels have all contributed to health systems struggling financially over the past 18 months. Since the start of the year, at least half a dozen hospitals have either closed or announced plans to close. To stay afloat, many others have opted to […]
Following the implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) – and during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic – home health providers struggled significantly with Low-Utilization Payment Adjustments (LUPAs). Since then, some providers have found ways to mitigate them, and others haven’t. Broadly, LUPAs occur in fee-for-service Medicare when a provider does not meet a […]
There’s a good argument to be made that one of the biggest successes in the history of Bayada Home Health Care came from a pre-dinner conversation in a parking lot 14 years ago. It was 2009, and Dave Totaro had just been hired by the company’s founder, Mark Baiada, as Bayada’s first chief marketing officer. […]
June is upon us. The year is nearly halfway gone, and since the turn of the calendar, there have been a lot of learnings on where the home health industry currently sits — and where it may be headed. But everything will be reset in the next month when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
A local restaurant may need three cooks, two cashiers and a manager to get by on a daily basis. It’s a simple equation to figure out. For home health providers, however, the amount of workers they need to provide care every day isn’t as simple. It has become tougher for a variety of reasons, but […]
The industry’s turnover rate was one of the biggest topics of conversation in home care in 2019. And that was for good reason. The median rate had skyrocketed all the way to 81.6%, according to data collected by the research and education company HCP. But since that point, it had significantly improved. From 2019 to […]
Staffing shortages are the No. 1 industry headwind that home-based care providers are facing. At the same time, ubiquity of this issue has created an environment where the most innovative providers have been able to rise to occasion, cultivating staffing strategies that have allowed them to lessen the impact of the persistent pain point. “There’s […]
The home health industry is never going to “figure out” staffing. Most providers understand that. They can’t snap their fingers and increase the amount of nurses there are in the country, nor can they make the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pay them the rates they feel like they deserve. But there’s so […]
Solving the toughest workforce issues in home-based care will come down to consistent messaging, a detail-oriented focus and intense advocacy. That was the message during a joint webinar from the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), which took a closer look at ways to combat […]
Now that the public health emergency (PHE) is ending, home health stakeholders are taking stock of what ripple effects will impact the industry most. The Trump Administration first declared the PHE in March of 2020, retroactive to Jan. 27, 2020. In January, the Biden administration announced that the PHE would end on May 11. Broadly, […]
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