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...
Geriatrician calls for move to value-based care model for home care
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 19, 2021
Medicare and private insurers must quickly transition to a value-based-care payment model to meet the needs of an aging population, the head of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Virginia (UVA) told...
Home healthcare workers serve as critical component in elderly telehealth visits, researcher says
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 19, 2021
Home healthcare workers can be an invaluable resource in telehealth visits with elderly patients, the author of a new study on telehealth barriers told McKnight’s Home Care Daily.
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...
New assessment tool aims to improve dialysis experience for patients
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 31, 2021
A new tool assessing patient experience could encourage more Americans with kidney disease to dialyze at home.
Move to healthcare at home helps to empower patients, former CMS administrator says
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 24, 2021
Moving healthcare into the home is helping shift the balance of power from healthcare systems to patients, former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D., said Monday....
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.
MedPAC to Congress: Reduce payments to home health in 2022, expand telehealth beyond public health emergency
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 17, 2021
In a report to Congress this week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) offered several key recommendations, including reducing payments for home healthcare agencies in 2022 and extending...
Amwell joins coalition to advance home care public policy
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 11, 2021
Amwell, a provider of telehealth services, said on Wednesday that it will become a founding member of Moving Health Home, a coalition working to advance care delivery by making the home a clinical site...
Two large health plans forge unique agreements with firms in home care space
By
Joe Jancsurak
Liza Berger
Mar 05, 2021
Two major health plans this week disclosed partnerships to provide more services to patients at home. Ready, an on-demand healthcare service, said Wednesday that it now offers at-home healthcare services...