Aetna is one of the most influential health care companies in the country. It’s also heavily invested in home-based care. Aman Gill, Aetna’s director of product strategy and innovation, told Home Health Care News last month that a home health acquisition was “on the table” for the company. This past week, at HHCN’s VALUE event, […]
More than two years after the implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), home health operators are still trying to make sense of its bottom-line impact. Initial deep dives into PDGM have suggested the overhaul contributed to home health spending being down as much as 21.6%. New data from consulting firm SimiTree further confirms that […]
Though home health admissions have begun to stabilize, providers are still seeing admissions that are lower than pre-pandemic levels. That’s according to the 2021 post-acute care industry trends report from Atlanta-based analytics and metrics firm Trella Health. The report examines a number of topics including Medicare Advantage enrollment and home health admissions, as well as […]
Bayada Home Health Care has launched a new suite of digital services to augment its partnerships with hospitals and health systems. Among many other things, the company believes that the new digital services will be a differentiator for it in the marketplace and also enable it to not just collect data, but also do something […]
This article is sponsored by Select Data. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Ed Buckley, CEO of Select Data, to learn about the emerging role of machine learning and predictive analytics in home-based care. Buckley discusses the challenges and opportunities for implementing this kind of technology, as well as the […]
Home care providers looking to use operational data to grow will need to learn how to sort through the clutter. Simply put, operational data is the data that is gleaned from an organization’s day-to-day operations. While data can be a useful decision-making tool, it’s important for providers to understand the information they’re looking at in […]
Non-medical home care providers know they provide significant value to their clients. The issue many have had in the past is proving that value to others, whether it be potential partners or even seniors’ families. To change that, companies have begun to invest considerable money and resources into extracting data from the work they do. […]
Trella Health, a post-acute care data analytics company, announced Tuesday that it has acquired PlayMaker Health. “[The home-based care industry] has been asking for this,” J. Scott Tapp, president and CEO of Trella, told Home Health Care News. “Instead of having multiple vendors, they wanted a single [organization] that they could turn to.” Atlanta-based Trella […]
The measurements used to track the home health industry could use some updating to better align perception with reality, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). And interestingly enough, access may be one of the rare occasions where on-the-ground evidence tells a truer story than available data. “The access to home health appears to […]
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