For years, home health agencies across the country have had numerous reasons to focus on reducing their 60-day re-hospitalization rate. Yet performance in this area has slightly worsened, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) noted in its recently proposed Medicare payment update for 2019. Because of this trend, CMS is proposing to increase […]
The sixth episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! Listen to our conversation with Nurse Next Door President and CEO Cathy Thorpe and learn about: Her background leading Canadian operations for The Gap, and how her experience in retail has helped her transform Nurse Next Door into a company with more unified systems and […]
The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) largely stole the show when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed payment rule earlier this month. But there were also some important and surprising positives within the rule’s 600 pages that home health providers shouldn’t ignore, industry executives and analysts say. The two most striking […]
After a 14-year career in finance, Gregory Solometo founded Alliance Homecare. Today, the company is building on its reputation for providing high-end services as it expands in and beyond the nation’s largest metropolitan area. Based in Manhattan, Alliance’s service area includes New York City and the nearby counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester, and […]
Recent findings highlighting the success of hospital-at-home programs point to “tremendous opportunity” for in-home care providers, health care experts say. But that opportunity largely depends on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its continued development of innovative payment models, they argue. Broadly speaking, hospital-at-home programs try to identify acute patients with certain […]
Americans are more often spending their final days at home or in other community-based settings instead of the hospital, a new study has found. Overall, the proportion of deaths that occur in acute-care hospitals has fallen to below 20%, according to a retrospective cohort study published last month in JAMA. That’s a steep drop compared […]
Home health providers small and large are more commonly thinking about home design as an important tool for keeping patients safe, comfortable and away from hospitals. To hone that design know-how, several of them—including Kendal at Home–are turning to a certification program that works with an innovative, immersive “living laboratory.” Launched in 2015, the Louisville, […]
Virtual care company Synzi has set its sights on the home health market and has started to land innovative providers looking to curb costly hospital readmissions by better filling communication gaps with patients. Synzi’s growing list of home health partners includes Florida’s Trilogy Home Healthcare, which signed up for the communication platform in May. Launched […]
Despite high hopes when it was introduced in 2012, the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) program has become somewhat of an afterthought for the home health industry. Diminished excitement surrounding bundled payments is partially because post-acute providers, including home health and skilled nursing agencies, can no longer be episode initiators under the upcoming BPCI Advanced model. […]
Kendal Corp., one of the largest nonprofit senior housing providers in the nation, is making a push to expand its Kendal at Home offering, as part of a recently devised strategic plan. Founded in 2003, Kendal at Home was an early example of a “CCRC Without Walls” program, in which members put down an entrance […]
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