Last week, Sue Chapman Moss, Kunu Kaushal and Bill Gammie were featured on the latest episode of HHCN+ TALKS, Home Health Care News’ live interview series for HHCN+ subscribers. Throughout the episode, these leaders — representing Bayada Home Health Care, Senior Solutions and Kaiser Permanente — told me all about the various ways their organizations […]
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Now more than ever, home-based care providers are exploring and engaging in value-based care opportunities. This means that providers are going beyond just “chasing contracts,” but instead, aligning on shared goals around outcomes and savings with payer partners. For the latest episode of HHCN+ TALKS, Home Health Care News connected with Sue Chapman Moss, managing […]
Kaiser Permanente and an investment firm are teaming up to launch a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) venture. Specifically dubbed Habitat Health, Kaiser and Town Hall Ventures will begin building out the program in California in 2025 – in Sacramento and Los Angeles. “Our dedication to helping improve the health of our […]
Oftentimes, talks between home health providers and their many referral partners are an exercise in education. For providers offering palliative care, that education usually starts at a 101-level. Part of that conversation with hospital and health system partners includes convincing case managers that patients will be better suited at home. “The longer a patient lays […]
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it wasn’t uncommon for home health agencies and other post-acute care providers to beg hospitals to be a part of their post-acute networks. Three years later, that’s generally not the case. The referral patterns in home-based care have seen a radical shift, and agency leaders are still adjusting to those […]
Kaiser Permanente is well known as one of the largest health care organizations in the U.S. It is also becoming more well known in the home-based care community as a payer source that’s more friendly to work with. “Quality home-based services are absolutely vital to the continuum, and Kaiser Permanente is taking a proactive approach […]
Care transitioning remains one of the rockiest parts of the post-acute health care ecosystem. Home health providers are in the middle of those transitions, often juggling health system and health plan relationships while trying to care for the patient at the center of it all. The best case for a patient is an aligned health […]
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 […]
Kaiser Permanente is acquiring Geisinger Health, the companies announced Wednesday. In tandem with the move is the development of a new organization. Together, the two are creating Risant Health, a new nonprofit group that will operate independently. “Through Risant Health, we will make our value-based care expertise, technology and services available to community-based health systems, […]
The journey of the hospital-at-home model in the U.S. is a compelling one. Much of it has transpired over the last few years, ever since the introduction of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, which allowed health systems to provide acute care in the home during the public health emergency (PHE). In May, the […]

