Should home healthcare be a new focus for Medicare Advantage?
By
Jeff Fox
Apr 20, 2021
Home-based services are not a common, or even widely accepted, part of most Medicare Advantage plans. However, there have been some signs that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have begun...
Realities of long-term care are not so funny, John Oliver says
By
Liza Berger
Apr 16, 2021
What makes John Oliver’s comedic bit so disturbing is the undeniable realism that lies at the heart of it.
Biden proposal presents opportunity for home care to dream big
By
Liza Berger
Apr 02, 2021
The home care industry can use the president’s ambitious plan to spread their message about the need to grow access to home care for seniors, and living wages for employees to help attract qualified...
Supporting patients aging at home with proactive care and remote monitoring
By
David Hunt
Apr 01, 2021
By formalizing a program of collaborative care management between the physician’s office, home care and any other ancillary providers or care teams involved with a patient’s care journey, the patient...
Addressing the social needs of seniors during COVID-19
By
Andrew Parker
Manik Bhat
Mar 23, 2021
Although social distancing has shown to slow the spread of COVID-19, the pandemic has truly opened the eyes of people throughout the U.S. to the negative impact that being separated from family and friends...
Telehealth: The new frontier
By
Liza Berger
Mar 19, 2021
Crises have the unique power to both unearth long-simmering problems and unmask raw potential. I think it’s fair to say that the COVID-19 pandemic (an indisputable crisis) has managed to do both.
A restart to life — in fits and starts
By
Liza Berger
Mar 12, 2021
If the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidance to vaccinated people in non-healthcare settings is intended to be a nudge, it appears that the federal government still has work to do.
Another advocate for home care emerges
By
Liza Berger
Mar 05, 2021
If home care is looking for some more muscle in Washington, it received some help on Wednesday.