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 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.
Four Key Trends Impacting Chronic Care Management, Physician Practices, and Payers
July-August 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Four significant trends are impacting chronic care management and the future of physician groups and payers. Moving forward this can change your referral growth and the need to expand your managed care contracts.
Five Payer Strategies Ramping-up Home Care Usage
July-August 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Payers are targeting their member populations that will benefit the most from at-home care. The center of their home health offerings is focused on high-cost patients, palliative care, diabetes, home care visits, telehealth, and at-home testing.
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?
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.
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.
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.
What Legal Parameters Establish Patient Choice?
May-June 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The right of patients to choose providers has generated considerable conflict within the provider community. In this article, learn the four key legal sources supporting patient choice and actions your organizations and patients can take to have them enforced.
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.
Market Signals Broaden Continuum-of-Care Services
March-April 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Expanding continuum of care services is an important strategy for future market positioning. We explore how providers, payers, and physicians are broadening services to expand partnership referrals, create innovation, and ensure sustainability.
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.
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.
Should Your Organization Be Preparing for Greater Value-Based Payments?
January-February 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Beginning in 2021, 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.
How is Your Organization Rethinking Strategic Positioning to Offer Continuum-of-Care Services from Pre- And Post-Discharge to End-of-Life?
January-February 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The question for leadership is how do you want to position your organization? As an integrator? Or as an aggregator? For care at home providers, the goal is to create a post-acute continuum model as patients transition from one care setting to another whether that be in-home personal care services, skilled home health, palliative care, or hospice.
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.
Marketing Hospice Service to ALF: Preferred-Provider Agreements
September-October 2020 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT How do anti-kickback statutes apply if providers or Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) are involved in referral arrangements and receive any type of federal or state funds? Attorney Elizabeth Hogue breaks it all down.
COVID-19 Discharge Status Reveals Under-Utilization of Home Health and Hospice Services
CMS released a data snapshot of COVID-19 hospitalizations, length of stay, and discharge status for 109,607 patients. Payer sources include Fee-for-service (FFS) claims data, Medicare Advantage (MA) encounter data, and Medicare enrollment information.
COVID-19: End-of-Life Care for Patients and Providers
Are health care systems, patients, and families prepared for tough conversations and decisions about health care preferences and medical interventions?
Report: Medicare’s Hospital Post-Acute Care Transfer Policy to Hospice
The Bipartisan Act (BBA) of 2018 Act updated the hospital transfer policy for early discharges to hospice care. The law required that, beginning in FY 2019, discharges to hospice care would qualify as a post-acute care transfer and be subject to payment adjustments.
Insight Report: Payment Recommendations 2021
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended that Congress reduce the payments for Home Health by 7% in 2021.
More Deaths Occur in the Home vs. Hospital and Nursing Facilities
For the first time since the early 20th century, the home has become the common place among American’s dying of natural causes.
Pre-Hospice Home-Based Transition Program
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Sharp HealthCare pre-hospice program called Transitions, is designed to give elderly patients the care they want at home and keep them out of the hospital.
Study: Hospice Top 13 Diagnosis
Cancer accounts for less than one-half of all hospice admissions. Here is a list of the top 13 diagnoses for admissions to hospice care.
Reducing Falls and Falls with Injury in HealthEast Hospice Patient Population
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Multidisciplinary teams across the care continuum work each day to determine the best ways to identify the highest risk patients.
Payers Expanding Into Palliative Care
Payers and Alternative Payment Models (APMs) are turning to palliative care programs as a way to offer value-based end-of-life care.
Hospice Study: Increasing Hospice Decreases Hospital Readmissions Among All Nursing Homes
Increasing hospice services can reduce hospital admissions among all residents of a nursing home, including those not enrolled in hospice.
Home-Based Palliative Care Models
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Palliative care focuses on relieving patients’ stress, pain and other symptoms as their health declines, and it helps them maintain their quality of life.
Hospice Quality of Care Varies
In a large cohort study, hospice visits in the last 2 days of life by professional staff varied by race, hospice program, and geographic region.
Palliative Care and Cancer Insights
Despite recommendations to the contrary, only about half of elderly patients with advanced cancer receive palliative care.
Palliative Care Oncology Guidelines
A new guidance statement to define high-quality primary palliative care delivery in medical oncology has been developed by ASCO and AAHPM.
End-of-Life Medicare Spending and the Cost of Care Insights
Spending on Medicare beneficiaries in their last year of life accounts for about 25% of total Medicare spending on beneficiaries age 65 or older.
The Paradigm Shift for Hospice Providers Begins
Four key trends in hospice care are contributing to a paradigm shift and impacting the future of Medicare hospice providers and other providers.
Palliative Care and Payer Value-Based Contracting
Highmark offers unique palliative care services to its Medicare Advantage members and supports hospital palliative care through value-based contracts.
ACOs: Three Approaches to Improve End-of-Life Care
The ACO model has the right incentives to reduce variation, spur innovation, and improve quality in end-of-life (EOL) care
ACO and Home-Based Palliative Care Model Reduce Costs
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT A home-based palliative care program tested within an ACO showed cost savings and reduced hospital admissions for patients near the end of life.
