Banach: NHPCO ‘hopeful’ that CMS will provide community-based palliative care benefit in 2021
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Liza Berger
Mar 23, 2021
The leader of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) said Monday that there is a strong possibility that Medicare will begin offering a community-based palliative care benefit this...
Organization praises CMS for preserving patients’ access to home respiratory care
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Liza Berger
Mar 17, 2021
The Council for Quality Respiratory Care, a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies, on Tuesday lauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
Long-term care should include more HCBS, panelists assert
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Liza Berger
Mar 12, 2021
The long-term care system in coming years should include an expansion of home- and community-based services (HCBS), policy, advocacy and consumer experts said during a virtual roundtable discussion Thursday...
Home health, home care agencies must brace for higher-acuity patients, Encompass exec says
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Liza Berger
Mar 02, 2021
Forces of change are pushing home health and home care into more acute care delivery models, such as hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home, the chief strategy and innovation officer for home health and hospice...
Home care at a tipping point: Agency offers perspective on field’s tremendous growth
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Liza Berger
Feb 23, 2021
Many players in the home care market have thrived in the past year as the pandemic steered seniors to remain at home for long-term care services versus enter senior care facilities. HomeWell Care Services,...
For 2021, home care looks for expanded Medicaid and Medicare coverage, solutions to staffing shortage
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Liza Berger
Feb 03, 2021
As the pandemic has shined a light on the capabilities of home care and home health, associations are looking for the Biden administration to expand Medicaid and Medicare coverage in the space this year.
In major move, HHS to expand Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model
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Liza Berger
Jan 11, 2021
The Department of Health and Human Services made a key announcement regarding home care on Friday: It approved the expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model, which began its first performance...