5 Ways to Improve Medical Supply Management, Reduce Costs, and Improve Outcomes
SPECIAL REPORT Strategies to decrease the pressures of delivering high-level care with fewer financial and staffing resources.
GAO Report: Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Switching to Medicare Fee-For-Service During Last Year of Life
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are switching to Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) during their last year of life, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report
Study: 61% of Seniors will Require Long-Term Care Services and Supports
According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, 61% of seniors will require long-term care services and supports.
Why is It Important to Understand Hospital Stays By Medical Condition?
Your partners – ACOs, payers, commercial insurers, physicians, and health systems – seek ways to reduce hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations. A critical measurement of your value is to show how your organization can reduce the cost of care, decrease re-hospitalizations, and improve outcomes.
The Obesity Crisis and Chronic Illness Attributed to 64% of Hospitalizations
The 18th annual report by Trust for America’s Health on the obesity crisis in the United States has been released. This year, special features highlight the interaction of the COVID-19 pandemic with social, economic, and environmental conditions that impact hospitalizations, social determinants of health (SDOH), and outcomes.
Six Real-Time Medication Reconciliation Solutions
SPECIAL REPORT Included in this publication: 1) A Checklist of Medication Reconciliation Capabilities, 2) Improving Clinical Handoffs, 3) Accurate Timely Information, 4) Driving Better Outcomes, 5) Medication Reconciliation in Action, and 6) Boosting Clinical Productivity​.
The Ten Most Frequent Diagnoses for Inpatient Stays
September-October 2021 Issue
FREE CONTENT In this article, we discuss the 10 most frequent principal diagnoses and their costs impacting hospital inpatient stays.
Six Digital Health Investments: What Are the Targets?
September-October 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Learn the specific six surging areas businesses are investing in that is creating a road map to healthcare’s future.
Six Smart Ways to Stay in Communication with Your Referral Sources
September-October 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Your referral partners increasingly expect robust communications to make patient transfers as seamless as possible, for both the patient and providers. They will have to make a choice. Ultimately, they will look for relationships with organizations that are easy to work with and that can deliver proven quality care. We provide insights and strategies from high-performing organizations.
What Program is the Biggest Winner for Home-Based Care?
September-October 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Read the insights about home-based primary care and how they have reduced hospitalizations, readmissions, and emergency room visits.
Four Dynamic Areas of Growth: An Investor’s Guide to the Care Economy
September-October 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The care economy, which totaled at least $648 billion in 2019, is positioned at the intersection of the future of work, social determinants of health, an aging population, and the sandwich generation. Get a treasure trove of untapped opportunities for innovation.
Five COVID Waivers the American Hospital Association is Urging CMS to Keep That Impact Your Organization
September-October 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The American Hospital Association is urging CMS to keep five COVID waivers and to not return to the old ways of doing things.
Three Missed Opportunities for End-of-Life Discussions
September-October 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Recent research discusses the missed opportunities for discussions about end-of-life, including advance care planning, palliative care, discontinuation of disease-directed treatment, hospice care, and after-death wishes, with outpatients with advanced cancer.
Six Ways to Identify, Increase, and Manage Referrals
September-October 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT In this new normal, it’s important to understand how your referral sources work, what they are sending to you versus the competition, how to deepen relationships with these sources, and what differentiates you as a provider in the marketplace.
Closing the Patient Communication Gap With Your Referral Partners
SPECIAL REPORT Your referral partners increasingly expect robust communications to make patient transfers as seamless as possible, for both the patient and providers. Yet, when polling a group of physicians and healthcare providers on what they think about the post-acute industry, every single person used the same phrase: black hole. Simply put, once patients leave their care, they have no idea what happens to them. How can your organization not be viewed as the “black hole”? Download this complimentary special report to find out.
Seamless Care Transitions: Six Smart Ways to Stay in Communication with Your Referral Sources
SPECIAL REPORT Your referral partners increasingly expect robust communications to make patient transfers as seamless as possible, for both the patient and providers, which means you need strategies to create seamless transitions. Learn what leading home health and hospice agencies are doing in this free special report.
Administering Specialty Drugs at Home
July-August 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT A recent study found receiving certain forms of care at home instead of in the hospital can lower healthcare spending. Administering specialty drugs at home or in a provider’s office lowered healthcare spending by $4 billion.
Six Ways To Recharge Clinical Engagement and Work/Life Balance
July-August 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Strategies and actions to improve clinician experiences. Work/life balance is something nurses are constantly trying to achieve, and many nurses are falling short of that goal. What solutions are your peers using to combat burnout, achieve better nurse work/life balance, and improve patient care?
Nine Payer and State Medicaid Managed Care Investments in Social Determinants
July-August 2021 Issue
FREE CONTENT In this article, we take a look at social determinant insights and investments from the perspective of Medicare Advantage plans, Medicaid managed care and healthcare providers.
Participation in Payment Reform and Delivery Falling Short By Primary Care Organizations
July-August 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Primary care transformation in voluntary programs has failed to broadly engage primary care organizations. What’s causing the low participation?
3 Secrets for Accelerating Home Health and Hospice Growth and Referrals
July-August 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT How to empower your team, drive efficiency of care, prevent readmissions, and gain a competitive advantage for your home health and/or hospice agency.
6 Ways to Identify, Increase, and Manage Referrals
The Remington Report presents six ways to accelerate home health and hospice growth through improved referral processes, including questions you should be asking your referral sources.
6 Ways to Recharge Clinical Engagement and Work-Life Balance
SPECIAL REPORT Work-life balance is something nurses are constantly trying to achieve, and many nurses are falling short of that goal.​ Here, then, are strategies and actions to improve clinician experiences.
Legal Perspective on Patient Choice
What are the fraud implications when patients' rights are violated? What is the role of physicians in patients' freedom of choice? The Remington Report gets answers from Attorney Elizabeth Hogue.
3 Secrets for Accelerating Home Health and Hospice Growth and Referrals
SPECIAL REPORT How to empower your team, drive efficiency of care, prevent readmissions, and gain a competitive advantage for your home health and/or hospice agency.
The Four Frustrations Your Referrals are Voicing. Is Your Organization Losing Referrals?
May-June 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Your referral sources are the lifeblood of your organization. Ultimately, they will look for relationships with organizations that are easy to work with and that can deliver proven quality care. A new research report reveals the four frustrations felt by your referral sources. A roundtable of your peers' weigh-in with solutions.
Advance Care Planning: Pilot Studies for Care at Home Providers
May-June 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The National Institute of Health advance care planning studies are focusing on the effectiveness of telehealth for patients receiving home-based palliative care and leveraging in home support services to engage patients in advance care planning. Learn more about the pilot studies supporting this research.
Are CMS Payment Models Delayed … Or Gone Forever?
May-June 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT A review of payment models under CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is quietly under review to decide if they will be implemented. Many of these models were popular with care at home providers. We provide insight into each of these payment models.
The Top Six Strategies to Grow and Manage Referral Partners
May-June 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The Remington Report interviews Nick Knowlton to discuss how to manage referrals, grow referrals, exchange communications with referrals, and gain a competitive advantage.
The Four Frustrations Your Referrals are Voicing: Is Your Organization Losing Referrals?
SPECIAL REPORT What referring hospitals, ACOs, and physicians want from home health, hospice, palliative care and private duty providers to make their lives easier.
5 Top Strategies to Grow and Manage Referral Partners
SPECIAL REPORT For five top strategies, we discuss actionable steps that can be taken by home health, hospice, palliative care, and private duty organizations to gain a competitive advantage.
How Community-Based Care is Being Redefined
March-April 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Under Andrew Molosky’s leadership, Chapters Health System has combined innovation and creative disruption to shift end-of-life care into a leading community-based population health organization.
How to Accelerate Business Growth and Technology Innovation for Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care, and Private Duty Providers
March-April 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT National leaders discuss how to lean into new approaches to accelerate growth, improve performance, and address technologies that create faster reimbursement, better work-life balance for clinicians, and optimal patient outcomes.
Vital to Survival Business Intelligence: Operational, Financial, and Clinical
SPECIAL REPORT The compelling ways business intelligence drives actionable results.
4 Strategies to Dramatically Improve Productivity, Volume, and Revenue
SPECIAL REPORT National leaders discuss how to lean into new approaches to accelerate business growth, improve performance, and address technologies that create faster reimbursement, better work-life balance for clinicians, and optimal patient outcomes. They share how their organizations address four key questions.
How Community-Based Care is Being Redefined
SPECIAL REPORT The shift from end-of-life care to building a continuum-based approach, plus strategies for growth, market position, and innovation revealed.
Remington’s Industry Report 2021 Leadership Perspectives
SPECIAL REPORT National leaders discuss how to lean into new approaches to accelerate business growth, improve performance, and address technologies that create faster reimbursement, better work-life balance for clinicians, and optimal patient outcomes. They share how their organizations address four key questions.
7 Models That Will Accelerate Value Based Payments in 2021
This year, several value-based payment models will begin the shift from fee for service to value-based. Earmark this as the transformation of payment reform for care-at-home providers and how they will be paid in the future. This white paper explains the seven value-based models impacting care-at-home providers.
DATA POINT: 2021 Medicare Advantage Membership Growth Continues to Outpace Medicare Fee-For-Service Growth
January-February 2021 Issue
FREE DATA POINT Medicare Advantage growth continues to outpace overall Medicare FFS membership growth, according to the latest statistics.
DATA POINT: Why Does Primary Care Spending Matter?
January-February 2021 Issue
FREE DATA POINT Why should we be concerned that primary care spending appears to be declining? A growing body of evidence measuring health system performance and population health outcomes finds that greater primary care is associated with better value: enhanced population health outcomes, greater equity, and more efficient use of healthcare resources.
2021 Payer Opportunities Collection
Your organization has new opportunities to grow and expand payer partnerships. A one-size-fits-all approach no longer exists, which is why we have bundled four articles from the Nov-Dec 2020 issue of The Remington Report into this complimentary compendium. Read about how to expand internal and external education, leverage critical investments in your workforce, and enhance actionable data needed by payers.
Physicians Expanding Care Into the Home
Home-based medical care models are shaking-up the $260 billion primary care market. Three physician models, new reimbursement models, telehealth, and chronic care management are key drivers.
COVID-19 Readmissions
In this free industry report, The Remington Report provides key data analysis to help your organization mitigate COVID-19 readmissions, along with five action steps for your organizations to explore.
COVID-19: The Triumphs and Challenges
November-December 2020 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Compelling stories from your peers talk about their experiences with COVID-19 and their patients.
COVID-19: Overseeing Multiple Conditions
November-December 2020 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT We share a collection of stories from caregivers on the frontline overseeing patient care for multiple conditions at home: dementia, end-of-life, behavioral health, and falls.
COVID-19: Overcoming Fear and Showing Strength
November-December 2020 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT This collection of stories shares how caregivers overcome the challenges of treating patients during COVID-19.
6 Ways Care in the Home is Changing Your Business
In this free industry report, The Remington Report shares six ways care in the home is changing the future of healthcare. Leaders will need to address these strategically if they intend to realize continued growth in a significantly changing marketplace.
The No. 1 Reason Why Patients are Not Getting Home Health Care After a Hospital Discharge Referral
In this free industry report, The Remington Report unveils the major reason why patients are not getting home health care after a hospital discharge referral, plus four strategies you can use to boost referrals.
Four Ways to Combat the Under-Utilization of Home Health and Hospice
In this free industry report, The Remington Report offers up four strategies to increase the utilization of home health and hospice in the age of COVID-19.
DataPoint: 40% of Americans Delay Care
September-October 2020 Issue
FREE DATA POINT How is COVID-19 delaying care? Nationwide 40% of Americans are still delaying care according to a survey from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Industry Business News
CMS has made three new appointments to their quality division, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York has settled its lawsuit, and Orlando Health and LHC Group has inked a partnership. The latest executive moves in healthcare, along with other industry business news, can be found here.
DataPoint: Medicare Advantage Penetration Reaches 36% in 2020
July-August 2020 Issue
FREE DATA POINT Medicare Advantage penetration continued to grow following the 2020 Medicare Annual Election Period, reaching 36.0% in 2020, according to CMS’s March data release.
COVID-19 Telehealth Expansion to Access Essential Health Services
July-August 2020 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT How can home care optimize telehealth during COVID-19 to work with other stakeholders and maintain continuity of care? What strategies can increase uptake and new models?
DataPoint: Almost 90% of COVID-19 Admissions Involve Comorbidities
July-August 2020 Issue
FREE DATA POINT The hospitalization rate for COVID-19 is 4.6 per 100,000 population, and almost 90% of hospitalized patients have some type of underlying condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
CommonSpirit Health at Home Reinvents Virtual Telehealth Monitoring
July-August 2020 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT CommonSpirit Health at Home provides another layer of protection and defense to keep vulnerable patients safe, healthy, and in their homes during this pandemic. And, it positioned to play a key role in preventing a post-COVID surge at care sites. Learn how CommonSpirit at Home expanded its virtual monitoring capabilities to better respond to patients’ needs during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19: Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA)
July-August 2020 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA) was perfect timing when COVID-19 reared its ugly head. Last March, President Trump signed a bipartisan reauthorization of a landmark law that provides more money for programs that help millions of older Americans age in their homes and communities through services including Meals on Wheels, family caregiver support, and transportation.
Seniors Using Telehealth in Medicare Advantage Plans are Highly Satisfied
July-August 2020 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Amid COVID-19 pandemic, 91% of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries using telehealth report favorable experiences while a record-setting 99% express satisfaction with their MA plan. 78% are willing to use it again.
Encompass Health Case Study
Encompass Health, in collaboration with McKesson, saved 17% to 19% on their supply spend, increased efficiencies, and achieved greater patient satisfaction.
