End-of-Year Outlook: Significant Changes Care-at-Home Providers Can Anticipate in 2025
The end-of-the-year outlook outlines the significant changes care-at-home providers can anticipate in 2025. The key areas of focus include collaboration and relationship-building resulting from changes in quality measures and oversight of the patient’s care journey after discharge.
Providers are expected to benefit from the upcoming changes as they work toward the common goal of improving patient outcomes. There will also be increased demand for more comprehensive, team-based support for tailored patient care planning.
Recent studies and market intelligence have contributed to improving patient care post-discharge. For instance, new insights have helped home care providers better understand which patient groups are more likely to use telehealth services. You can find more details in the article, “3 Key Trends Reveal Which Medicare Patients Use Telehealth the Most.”
Critical social determinant quality measures are set to begin in 2025. These measures present opportunities to establish strong referral partnerships and enhance outcomes. This also indicates a shift toward a healthcare delivery system that integrates various aspects. In other words, there is a need to rely on relationships beyond the hospital to achieve targets such as reducing readmissions, emergency department visits, and receiving positive patient satisfaction feedback. The two articles you don’t want to miss are, “Discover the 5 Essential Strategies for Home Care to Foster Strong Relationships and Prioritize Age-Friendly Quality Measures” and “2025 Social Determinants Quality Measure Expands to Medical-Surgical Patients.”
In 2025, there will be a continued focus on reducing readmissions through a critical partnership between home care and their referrals. This is addressed from two perspectives in “14 Risk Factors Associated With Dementia: Key Relationships to Readmissions” and “Unlocking the Mystery: Exploring the Differences in Readmission Penalties for the Dual-Eligible.”
Building relationships with referrals is evolving. By concentrating on outcome-based relationships, identifying value propositions, crafting compelling business cases, and prioritizing action plans, a higher level of collaboration and clinical integration can be achieved. We are working diligently to facilitate this through executive education, master classes, workshops, and the ACO and Home Care Collaborative. This positioning is critical for organizations in 2025.
