Home Care & Hospice CEO announces retirement; search underway for successor … Biden plan to lower Medicare eligibility age to 60, faces hostility from hospitals … Webinar to offer overview of the DOJ’s...
Home care briefs for Tuesday, Oct. 6
Oct 06, 2020
Report analyzes COVID-19’s impact on home healthcare software market … Major insurer announces 2021 Medicare plans, with a focus on total health and affordability … Physical Rehabilitation Network...
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...
State investigation cites lax employee training, policies
By
Joe Jancsurak
Dec 01, 2020
An Idaho Department of Health and Welfare audit of Boise-based A Caring Hand, conducted following a patient death, shows the agency lacked sufficient employee training policies and procedures.
President enacts extensions to MFP program, spousal impoverishment protections
By
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...
Study: At-home PMV may provide viable COVID-19 treatment
By
Joe Jancsurak
Feb 19, 2021
Offering prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) at home may be feasible and financially beneficial for some COVID-19 patients, according to a report in the February issue of JAMDA, the journal of AMDA...
Study: Considering older patients’ care preferences affects their care use
By
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...
Former Uber Health head launches care management platform with $4.5M in funding
By
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.
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.
Study shows far fewer COVID-19 cases at home than in nursing homes, assisted living
By
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...