November/December 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT According to a recent analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, home healthcare is one of the most dangerous places to work in healthcare. Homecare field staff members who provide services on behalf of private duty agencies, hospices, Medicare-certified home health agencies, and home medical equipment companies are extremely vulnerable.
November/December 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT A respected biennial health insurance survey sheds light on the burden seniors face to afford medications and care that are enrolled in traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans.
November/December 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT New York State’s new requirement for certain certificate-of-need applications includes a health equity impact assessment. New York is now the first state to implement a required equity assessment in its health facility planning and approval process that went into effect June 22.
Research shows that social determinants can be more important than health care or lifestyle choices in influencing health. Numerous studies suggest that SDOH account for between 30-55% of health outcomes.
Fostering effective team-based care improves both the patient’s and the team’s experience of care delivery. In this article, we discuss the two different approaches to team-based care, the five core principles, and how to reduce clinician burnout.
July/August 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Three new and proposed policies and regulations are reshaping critical areas of healthcare, including social determinants of health, Medicare, Medicaid, and Medicaid Managed Care. Taking a deeper look helps to predict future changes.
July/August 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT A ruling from the Supreme Court may make it more difficult for enforcers to prove liability under the False Claims Act and more manageable for providers to defend themselves against claims of violations.
July/August 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Some telehealth waivers extended under COVID reached their end, while others continue through December 31, 2024. This article provides an easy way to know the current status of telehealth waivers in each health care sector.
July/August 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The paradox is 85% of patients in the US prefer to die at home, but only 40% die at home or in hospice. A recent study examined the association between the presence of state palliative legislation and the place of death.
May/June 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Disruptors or non-traditional providers are quickly accelerating their footprint into the care-at-home market. These providers are addressing the pain points and healthcare gaps that traditional-for-service providers have failed to correct for many years.
May/June 2023 Issue
FREE CONTENT Learn the five key areas that home-based care organizations could assist in discharge planning.
May/June 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Learn the perspectives of patients regarding their care transition experience after discharge.
May/June 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The Expanding Care in the Home Act: By moving an array of services for Medicare beneficiaries from hospital to home, lawmakers hope they can save money while allowing older Americans to receive care in their homes. Get an understanding of a new proposed bill.
May/June 2023 Issue
FREE CONTENT In this special report, we provide guidance to help your organization improve the clinician experience and gather data to easily track satisfaction and achieve a more engaged workforce.
January/February 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Home care is big business for payers. No better industry is more aligned with payer goals than home-based care. We address six strategies to evaluate contracting with Medicare Advantage plans.
January/February 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Medicare’s Care Compare website is adding physician and clinician affiliations to home-based care organizations. The new information is meant to provide additional information to support patients and caregivers as they make healthcare decisions.
January/February 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT In this article, we explore the models of care advancing health equity and the closer connection to value-based care.
January/February 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission submitted its official payment recommendations to Congress for March FY2024. Recommended cuts include home healthcare and hospice.
January/February 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT CMS has indicated that the agency intends for anyone with Medicare coverage to be under a value-based payment arrangement by 2030. Learn which fee-for-service programs are advancing value-based care.
As a home-based care provider, all referral partners have the same goal – how to reduce readmissions and the cost. It’s important to continue to hone in on data that can help your organization better understand your role in preventing readmissions and reducing the cost of care.
New information will help your organization better align clinical services to reduce the cost of the highest medical conditions and their expenditures. The data can be used in conversations with various payer sources to align your organization’s services to reduce the cost of care and readmissions.
November-December 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Care transitions promote improved outcomes when discharge planning, home-based care, physicians, and hospitalists engage on the first day of an inpatient admission.
November-December 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Home-based organizations eager to have partnerships with ACOs will learn in our discussion why certain ACOs engage in greater home visits and care transitions to manage complex patients. No two ACOs are alike. Get insights into the characteristics of ACOs and their decision points. We follow up with three key leadership discussion questions.
November-December 2022 Issue
FREE CONTENT In this special report, we provide 36 ways your investment in technology can produce a positive ROI across your organization. We identify the right technologies to get a positive return on your investment.
November-December 2022 Issue
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.
November-December 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Seven areas of healthcare are changing in 2023 related to quality measures, bundled payments, the hospice benefit, and the expanded HHVBP model. For each, we provide details and resources to keep you in the know.
“Poaching agreements” may produce artificial suppression of employees’ compensation and may violate the federal Sherman Act.
The Office of Inspector General has stated that there are two major types of fraud and abuse compliance that must be addressed through ongoing evaluation processes.
Practitioners owe a duty of care in the diagnosis and treatment of patients even though they are working under the supervision of licensed physicians.
The crisis level of the nursing shortage has no easy fix. A national survey provides insights into what are the most important benefits for nurses, how salaries compare nationwide, and what are the most crucial factors for job satisfaction.
September/October 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT With all the evolving changes occurring in healthcare, you may have missed CMS’s initiatives aligning value-based arrangements across traditional Medicare programs. We discuss the eight trends to help your organization think about the impact on your labor force and referral partners.
September/October 2022 Issue
SPECIAL REPORT In this special report, we provide 11 strategic actions to improve your care team's productivity both internally and externally. Get insights into advancing clinical communications with your referral partners, ways your care team always has real-time patient status, and how to improve the referral process. Don't miss the eight additional resources to dig even deeper into this topic.
September/October 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The role of the nurse practitioner continues to grow with more than 355,000 NPs nationwide and growth projections of 45% by 2030. We provide important state-by-state analysis and annual salaries.
September/October 2022 Issue
SPECIAL REPORT/FREE CONTENT In this special report, learn about the challenges and solutions to effective care transitions, competitive tools, and shared peer actions.
Getting to know the nursing workforce by state helps to know states with the most job openings, salaries, and the best and worst states to work. We give you the intel.
September/October 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The gap between the younger generation and the senior population is narrowing when it comes to smart phones, tablets, internet users, YouTube, and telehealth. A recent study provides valuable insight for healthcare providers adopting technology in the home.
September/October 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT $60 million in investments will expand and improve the rural community workforce. We provide details and resources for each.
September/October 2022 Issue
SPECIAL REPORT What are the four questions leadership should explore to optimize scheduling with continuity of care and staff utilization? In this special report, we answer these four questions and give you solutions to help provide better care to more patients, while making the most of your staff’s time. This effort starts with their scheduling process.
September/October 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT The job outlook for home health and personal care aides is growing much faster than all occupations. Our analysis breaks it down by state and wages.
Payers are developing care models specific to the level of need. There is not a one-size-fits-all care-management strategy. Payers tend to categorize medical conditions by risk.
Case managers/discharge planners continue to come under fire from fraud enforcers for violations of the federal anti-kickback statute.
July/August 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT How should your organization be responding to payers expanding their position in home-based care? What key trends support this advancement? What are key strategies to partner and align with payers? In this article, we cover the key market changes, the disruption, and growth opportunities for home-based care organizations.
July/August 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Payers are deepening their care delivery models focused on the home. In the past, we may have thought of payers in traditional roles as a medical-cost manager. Today, they are acquiring home-based care organizations to control readmissions, cost, and outcomes.
July/August 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Different payers such as Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and Special Needs Plans are focusing on the highest chronic care conditions to reduce the cost of care. In this article, is the data by payer and a discussion about how organizations can support a better aligned financial and quality partnerships.
July/August 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Medicare Advantage enrollment is growing at a fast pace. The number of plans is expanding geographically, and payers will continue to invest in the Medicare Advantage market. In this article, we dig deep into the growth of Medicare Advantage by enrollment, states, and the future. The market signal is strong to put Medicare Advantage contracting as a high priority.
July/August 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Important to all payers is the value your organization brings to reducing the cost of care. Available data can gear-up your partnership value quickly. In this article, we sliced and diced data to provide an overall macro/micro picture of how to reduce the cost of care.
July/August 2022 Issue
SPECIAL REPORT/FREE CONTENT What do family caregivers identify as important areas for choosing care-at-home provider? What area did family caregivers identify for improvement? How are your organization’s surveys being affected? What strategies made the top of the list? What are the five ways to achieve family caregiver communication success? In this special report, we give you seven family caregiver expectations to increase your competitive advantage.
It’s a new environment for anti-trust enforcement, especially in the healthcare industry. Providers should pay close attention to this issue.
Increase your partnership value with hospitals by leveraging this study, which showed home health vs. no post-acute care was associated with reduced 30-day readmissions and better outcomes.
Achieving a timely transition of care while simultaneously lowering the risk of readmission remains one of the toughest challenges in the quest for value-based outcomes.
May/June 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Hospitals are responsible for coding a Medicare beneficiary discharge bill based on the discharge plan for the patient. Here's what you need to know.
May/June 2022 Issue
FREE CONTENT The discharge status code identifies where the patient is being discharged to at the end of their facility stay or transferred to such as an acute/post-acute facility.
May/June 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care showed home health vs. no post-acute care was associated with reduced 30-day readmissions and better outcomes.
May/June 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Medicare’s IPPS post-acute care transfer policy requires hospitals to apply the correct discharge status code to claims where patients receive home health services within three days of discharge.
May/June 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT This important OIG report has finding of hospitals that did not properly code post-acute transfer correctly.
May/June 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Fast facts about the Post-Acute Transfer Policy. Here's what you need to know at a glance.
May/June 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Medicare improperly paid acute-care hospitals $54.4 million for 18,647 claims subject to the Post-Acute Care Transfer policy.
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association of 5,464 beneficiaries reveals that total health expenditures were lower for those who used hospice.
Analysis of trends and payment patterns indicate non-hospice payments for Medicare Part A and B items and services totaled $6.6 billion from 2010 through 2019.
March/April 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Discharge destinations require established relationships with a network of high-quality post-acute providers, facilities and home health resources in the community.
March/April 2022 Issue
FREE CONTENT Percentage of Medicare aged 66-74 enrolled in Medicare fee-for-service within 30-days of hospital discharge.
January/February 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT CMS’s reinterpretation of “primarily health-related” benefits has led to more Medicare Advantage (MA) plans offering services.
January/February 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT CMS projects that nearly 30 million people are signing up for MA in 2022. Here are seven trends to watch for.
January/February 2022 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT CMS is testing a broad array of complementary MA health plan innovations designed to reduce Medicare program expenditures, enhance the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries
January/February 2022 Issue
FREE SPECIAL REPORT Seven trends supporting growth and the future, including the expansion of community-based care and expanded clinical care models to attract referrals.
Launched in 2018, Huntsman at Home in Utah was one of the first programs in the United States to provide acute cancer care at home.
November-December 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are switching to Medicare Fee-for-Service during their last year of life, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Across the board, we see from referral sources and other care providers alike that they really feel as if they’re part of the care team now instead of the end of the line where a patient goes when they get out of the hospital. Your peers share their thoughts and solutions.
September/October 2021 Issue
FREE CONTENT In this article, we discuss the 10 most frequent principal diagnoses and their costs impacting hospital inpatient stays.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
May/June 2021 Issue
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.
May/June 2021 Issue
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.
May/June 2021 Issue
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.
May/June 2021 Issue
The Remington Report interviews Nick Knowlton to discuss how to manage referrals, grow referrals, exchange communications with referrals, and gain a competitive advantage.
SPECIAL REPORT What referring hospitals, ACOs, and physicians want from home health, hospice, palliative care and private duty providers to make their lives easier.
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.
Educational materials, tools, training, and resources for integrating palliative care into ambulatory care for patients with serious life-threatening chronic illness or conditions.
March/April 2021 Issue
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.
March/April 2021 Issue
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.
March/April 2021 Issue
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.
SPECIAL REPORT The compelling ways business intelligence drives actionable results.
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.
SPECIAL REPORT The shift from end-of-life care to building a continuum-based approach, plus strategies for growth, market position, and innovation revealed.
January/February 2021 Issue
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.
January/February 2021 Issue
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.
November-December 2020 Issue
Compelling stories from your peers talk about their experiences with COVID-19 and their patients.
November-December 2020 Issue
This collection of stories shares how caregivers overcome the challenges of treating patients during COVID-19.
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.
September/October 2020 Issue
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.
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.
Are health care systems, patients, and families prepared for tough conversations and decisions about health care preferences and medical interventions?
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.
In a proposed rule issued on February 5, CMS announced that beneficiaries with ESRD will be able to enroll in Medicare Advantage Plans starting in 2021.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended that Congress reduce the payments for Home Health by 7% in 2021.
For the first time since the early 20th century, the home has become the common place among American’s dying of natural causes.
The top six types of providers who provided home-based medical care (non-podiatry) in both 2012 and 2013 accounted for two-thirds of the providers.
CMS issued new guidance to clarify where Medicaid beneficiaries can receive home- and community-based services as defined in a 2014 regulation.
Care management is a key component of policy development, future legislation and new regulations. How is this changing the future of healthcare?
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.
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Multidisciplinary teams across the care continuum work each day to determine the best ways to identify the highest risk patients.
Barriers to palliative care access in the United States occurs in five domains. Learn what these domains are in this article.
Payers and Alternative Payment Models (APMs) are turning to palliative care programs as a way to offer value-based end-of-life care.
Increasing hospice services can reduce hospital admissions among all residents of a nursing home, including those not enrolled in hospice.
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine by Partners HealthCare System examines community-based linkages to population health.
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.
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Aetna’s Compassionate Care Program is designed to improve the quality of patient care for individuals with life-threatening illnesses.
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.
Despite recommendations to the contrary, only about half of elderly patients with advanced cancer receive palliative care.
A new guidance statement to define high-quality primary palliative care delivery in medical oncology has been developed by ASCO and AAHPM.
Spending on Medicare beneficiaries in their last year of life accounts for about 25% of total Medicare spending on beneficiaries age 65 or older.
Four key trends in hospice care are contributing to a paradigm shift and impacting the future of Medicare hospice providers and other providers.
Highmark offers unique palliative care services to its Medicare Advantage members and supports hospital palliative care through value-based contracts.
The ACO model has the right incentives to reduce variation, spur innovation, and improve quality in end-of-life (EOL) care
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.
The new Primary Cares Initiative that will transform care and payment for complex, high-need patients who are able to stay healthy in their own homes.
New guidance has been issued by CMS about where Medicaid beneficiaries can receive home and community-based services, impacting many providers.
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