Home Health
Robert Pearl, M.D., CEO of Kaiser Permanente Medical Group from 1999 to 2017, and Brian Wayling, executive director of telehealth services at Intermountain Healthcare, another pioneering telehealth organization, argue in a recent Harvard Business Review report that the telehealth era is just鈥
Kentucky-based ScionHealth, which operates 79 facilities in 25 states, recently partnered with the health tech company Cadence to provide remote patient monitoring (RPM) services to patients with chronic conditions.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday awarded $25 million in planning grants to expand access to home and community-based services through Medicaid鈥檚 Money Follows the Person program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 proposed 3.3% market basket update for Medicare home health agencies in calendar year 2023 is 鈥渨oefully inadequate,鈥 especially when combined with an unprecedented 7.69% behavioral offset based on flawed assumptions, AHA told the agency today. In鈥
AHA comments to CMS on the calendar year (CY) 2023 HH prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule.
The recent news that CVS Health plans to bid for Signify Health, a value-based care analytics company that helps payers, employers and providers with in-home care, is the latest case of companies鈥 focusing on advancing their primary care reach and in-home care services while bulking up their鈥
On June 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its calendar year (CY) 2023 proposed rule for the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS).
Memorial Hermann Health System recently began working with Contessa, a home recovery care service company, to deliver acute care, rehabilitation and palliative care to the health system鈥檚 patients.
While this rule includes no major changes to the structure of the HH PPS, the AHA is very concerned about the unprecedented behavioral offset the agency proposes 鈥 6.9 percentage points 鈥 which it states is necessary to achieve budget neutral implementation of the Patient-driven Groupings Model (鈥
CVS Health鈥檚 strategic priorities are in care coordination and chronic-disease management, health IT and home health especially bear watching as the nation鈥檚 health system continues to transform.