This year, Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) is executing on a new playbook to drive more—and more effective—collaboration between its inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and home health agencies. That playbook had been in development since Mark Tarr became CEO of the company, then known as HealthSouth, in late 2016. Now, Tarr is pleased to see some […]
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it was allowing non-skilled in-home supports to become a supplemental benefit in Medicare Advantage plans next year, it was evident new solutions would be needed to facilitate the addition. Now, technology providers and in-home care agencies are seeing opportunities to work together to make inroads […]
Hospice has been a popular target on the mergers-and-acquisitions front, but the industry faces a demographic challenge when it comes to minority patients. The sector is plagued by very low utilization rates for minority patients, and the numbers appear only to be getting worse. About 87% of hospice patients are white, according to the most recent […]
Start your week with our must-read news—see what caught our eye around the web, and keep reading to see our top stories from last week. The unemployment rate in the United States recently reached just 3.9%—a tight labor market. In April, the share of new health care jobs also reached a new high, with 24,400 […]
For almost two years, Intermountain Healthcare—a Utah-based health system that boasts 22 hospitals, more than 180 clinics and its own health insurance plan—has been searching for the perfect home care partner to help it proactively keep elderly patients well and away from its own facilities. It found that partner more than 1,400 miles away. Earlier […]
New York-based home care startup company Hometeam has named Randy Klein as its new CEO. Klein takes the helm just several weeks after former CEO and founder Josh Bruno stepped down. The leadership change comes after Hometeam, which provides services in New York and New Jersey and has raised more than $43 million in investment […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a new rural health strategy, targeting Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries located in rural America. One of the strategy’s aims is to boost telehealth and telemedicine, a growing area of in-home based care. “For the first time, CMS is organizing and focusing our efforts to apply […]
To keep their chronically ill residents at home and out of hospitals or nursing homes, states are beginning to look at food-as-medicine models that deliver healthy, nutritious meals under doctors’ orders. But there’s now a state that’s doing a lot more than looking. California has launched a new, three-year, $6 million pilot program spearheaded by […]
Home health care visits that are longer by just one minute may be tied to lower hospital readmission rates. That’s the key finding from a recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). “We obviously see an effect,” Guy David, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and author of the research, told Home Health Care News. “Shorter visits […]
San Francisco-based Clover Health, a health care technology company and Medicare Advantage insurer, has launched an in-home primary care program that will include gene testing for medication management. The program, which already has approximately 500 members in New Jersey, uses genomic testing integration capabilities from YouScript, a clinical decision support tool for medication management. Clover […]
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