Study: Considering older patients’ care preferences affects their care use
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 22, 2021
When patients’ preferences for care are not taken into account, they are less likely to seek home care use, and pursue doctor visits as well as specialty visits and outpatient surgeries, according to...
Medicare Advantage outcomes top traditional Medicare: report
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 05, 2021
Medicare Advantage outperforms traditional Medicare when it comes to pneumonia and flu vaccines, diabetic eye exams, post-acute care and avoidable hospitalizations — all of which enable older adults...
Connected Home Living, People Power partner to advance telehealth at home
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 05, 2021
People Power, a developer of intelligent in-home connected services for the home healthcare industry, and Connected Home Living, a provider of telehealth and remote care monitoring, have announced a partnership...
President enacts extensions to MFP program, spousal impoverishment protections
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 04, 2021
Medicaid extender provisions in the 2020 year-end omnibus legislation signed Dec. 28 by President Trump included positive policy updates for the Money Follows the Person demonstration and spousal impoverishment...
Long-term care financing: Much work remains
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Joe Jancsurak
Dec 11, 2020
From expanding Medicare Advantage plans, to better integrating the healthcare system, to developing government-assisted private insurance options to expand long-term care coverage for a rapidly aging middle-class...
Study shows far fewer COVID-19 cases at home than in nursing homes, assisted living
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Joe Jancsurak
Dec 10, 2020
The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths for home- and community-based services programs pales in comparison with those for nursing homes, concludes a recent study in the JAMDA, Journal of Post-Acute and...
Former Uber Health head launches care management platform with $4.5M in funding
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Joe Jancsurak
Dec 07, 2020
A new care management platform, backed by $4.5 million in seed funding, has the goal of enabling healthcare providers and payers to extend their services into patients’ homes.
New CMS payment model could increase access to home care
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Joe Jancsurak
Dec 04, 2020
A voluntary payment model announced Wednesday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could put home care within reach for more Medicare beneficiaries, the agency said.
Charges filed against 3 in $1.5 million home health aide scam
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 03, 2020
Three people were charged last week after allegedly bilking two home health clients out of $1.5 million, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office in Toms River, NJ.
CMS lowers final home health rate increase from $540 million to $390 million; PDGM’s behavioral adjustment...
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 02, 2020
The final 2021 home health payment rule issued last week by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services contains an estimated increase of $390 million in home health payments for agencies, for...