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Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are switching to Medicare Fee-for-Service during their last year of life according to a Government Accountability Office study. The federal government would have saved $912 million during 2016 and 2017 had fewer Medicare Advantage enrollees opted into traditional Medicare during their last year of life, the GAO estimates. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
North Carolina will implement a groundbreaking program in select regions to pilot evidence-based interventions addressing issues like housing instability, transportation insecurity, food security, interpersonal violence and toxic stress. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
There?s been a significant industry-wide interest on ?downshifting care? to lower-cost delivery? environments. Harnessing the home as a?central hub is getting the attention of physicians, payers and health systems as a way to transform traditional care management models with integrated home-based medicine. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Market readiness is the theme for this year?s outlook. The talk of transformation has traction. Too many disruptors are in the healthcare market pushing out traditional models of care. Until you see the information gathered in one document, it may seem transformation is still a while away. Our study of trends and market signals indicate otherwise. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
How real time actionable data leverages new value for home health aides and stakeholders. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
FirstHealth Home Care, a division of FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a comprehensive not-for-profit healthcare system in the mid-Carolinas, has always kept the focus on high quality patient care and actionable data to drive performance improvement. With the advent of the five year Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model Pilot in 2016, FirstHealth was already demonstrating consistently high outcomes. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Adam Boehler left his position as the deputy administrator and director of CMS and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). His position at CMMI was important to home and community-based providers. His work created models to pay primary care physicians based on value, tie prices of drugs administered in a doctor's office to the amount other countries pay, and a drive to move?more people to get dialysis in their homes. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Home-based medical care models are shaking-up the $260 billion primary care market. How are integrated primary care delivery models addressing chronic care management in the home? This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Primary care is being rapidly redefined today right before our eyes. As healthcare evolves, patient needs expand and providers must look for new and better ways to achieve a patient-centered model of practice. Read the four reasons home-based primary care is opening doors and opportunities for patients and providers today. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Lexington Medical Foundation and Right at Home, based in South Carolina, built a strategic partnership based on a community-based, patient-centered program to provide social determinants of health support for high-risk patients once they transition home. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
The Advisory Opinion raises a number of significant questions for home care providers. Perhaps most importantly, the Advisory Opinion seems to completely ignore questions about state licensure and scope of practice. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
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. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
The invisible technology boundaries expand the rules of who can offer care in the home, how they will be paid, and it creates a less restrictive policy environment to deliver care at home. The opportunity to reshape care delivery and create a more efficient and cost-effective healthcare system is achievable because of the acceleration and adoption of technology. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Evaluation of the first two performance years, 2016-2017. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
New choices to receive care at home centers on patients receiving acute level care in the home. Non-traditional care at home models is expanding into a new era. The twist to non-traditional programs is to keep care at home leadership?s eyes wide open about the impact to their organizations. Waivers are changing rules, policies have changed, and the role of who can care for patients in the home is transforming models. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
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. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
This is the second article in series to discuss how to promote the growth of in-home community-based organizations and accelerate relationships with payers. The first article published in The Remington Report?s July/August issue, pages 4-8, focused on the home health aide workforce: How Real Time Actionable Data Leverages New Value For Home Health Aides and Stakeholders. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
About two-thirds of hospital readmission costs were higher than their initial admission costs for common diagnoses in 2016, according to a Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Direct contracting creates the seismic change to level the playing field for small and large organizations, tests risk-sharing payments, creates a playground to test payments that operated in silos, and creates greater financial alignment. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
National leaders discuss how to lean into new approaches to accelerate growth, improve performance, and address technologies that create faster reimbursement, better worklife balance for clinicians, and optimal patient outcomes. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
This webinar is part of the six-event, on-demand webinar series: Next Generation Home Health Aide Model to Promote Growth and Partnerships
Webinar Summary
What resources can home care contribute to a successful partnership with payers? The answer: real-time data. Payers are seeking improvements in their quality measure scores to:- Provide better care to their members
- Secure high State/Federal Star Ratings
- Increase funding through better risk adjustment scores
- Qualify to earn quality incentive bonus funding
Want to purchase the entire series for $499? Click here.
- Webinar #1: The Changing Healthcare Landscape: The New Role of the Home Health Aides
- Webinar #2: How to Expand Payer Partnerships and Meet Their Goals
- Webinar #3: How to Expand the Role of Aides to be Part of an Interdisciplinary Team Member
- Webinar #4: How to Target Interventions to Improve Outcomes
- Webinar #5: How to Size-up Your Organization for Cultural Change
- Webinar #6: How to Boost Quality Scores and Performance Improvement
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This webinar is part of the six-event, on-demand webinar series: Next Generation Home Health Aide Model to Promote Growth and Partnerships
Webinar Summary
Before you meet with a payer, it is important to establish their goals. A one size fits all solution no longer exists. Five key conversation points are identified in this webinar. We discuss:- How payer conversations are changing
- Alignment strategies with payers
- Case study: Leveraging your resources and assets
Want to purchase the entire series for $499? Click here.
- Webinar #1: The Changing Healthcare Landscape: The New Role of the Home Health Aides
- Webinar #2: How to Expand Payer Partnerships and Meet Their Goals
- Webinar #3: How to Expand the Role of Aides to be Part of an Interdisciplinary Team Member
- Webinar #4: How to Target Interventions to Improve Outcomes
- Webinar #5: How to Size-up Your Organization for Cultural Change
- Webinar #6: How to Boost Quality Scores and Performance Improvement
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This webinar is part of the six-event, on-demand webinar series: Next Generation Home Health Aide Model to Promote Growth and Partnerships
Webinar Summary
The role of your aides can go beyond basic training that is traditional in-home care. What else can aides do to access and report actionable data from the member’s home? In this webinar is a case study discussing operational considerations, targeted training programs, and key data collection.- Training focused on payer needs
- Training modules
- Data collection leading to timely interventions
- New strategies for aides to access and report actionable data
Want to purchase the entire series for $499? Click here.
- Webinar #1: The Changing Healthcare Landscape: The New Role of the Home Health Aides
- Webinar #2: How to Expand Payer Partnerships and Meet Their Goals
- Webinar #3: How to Expand the Role of Aides to be Part of an Interdisciplinary Team Member
- Webinar #4: How to Target Interventions to Improve Outcomes
- Webinar #5: How to Size-up Your Organization for Cultural Change
- Webinar #6: How to Boost Quality Scores and Performance Improvement
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How payers measure success may vary with attention paid to prevention services and screenings, timeliness of services, functional and clinical stability in the home, or satisfaction with service providers. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
This webinar is part of the six-event, on-demand webinar series: Next Generation Home Health Aide Model to Promote Growth and Partnerships
Webinar Summary
How can your organization respond effectively to a changing healthcare landscape? One of the key answers is assessing the culture of your organization. In this webinar, we focus on your key asset - your workforce.- How to respond effectively to the changing healthcare landscape
- Engagement and training
- Retention and recruitment strategies
- Strategies to invest in your workforce
Want to purchase the entire series for $499? Click here.
- Webinar #1: The Changing Healthcare Landscape: The New Role of the Home Health Aides
- Webinar #2: How to Expand Payer Partnerships and Meet Their Goals
- Webinar #3: How to Expand the Role of Aides to be Part of an Interdisciplinary Team Member
- Webinar #4: How to Target Interventions to Improve Outcomes
- Webinar #5: How to Size-up Your Organization for Cultural Change
- Webinar #6: How to Boost Quality Scores and Performance Improvement
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This webinar is part of the six-event, on-demand webinar series: Next Generation Home Health Aide Model to Promote Growth and Partnerships
Webinar Summary
A key to targeting interventions begins with the investment in your workforce and data collection. What are the roles and responsibilities of an interdisciplinary team? In this webinar, we identify and discuss successful interdisciplinary team programs, processes, and approaches to build positive outcomes.- Roles and responsibilities of a targeted interdisciplinary team
- Information flow
- Interdisciplinary team case study for high-risk patients
Want to purchase the entire series for $499? Click here.
- Webinar #1: The Changing Healthcare Landscape: The New Role of the Home Health Aides
- Webinar #2: How to Expand Payer Partnerships and Meet Their Goals
- Webinar #3: How to Expand the Role of Aides to be Part of an Interdisciplinary Team Member
- Webinar #4: How to Target Interventions to Improve Outcomes
- Webinar #5: How to Size-up Your Organization for Cultural Change
- Webinar #6: How to Boost Quality Scores and Performance Improvement
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It?s estimated that less than 30 percent of individuals discuss end-of-life care with their loved ones, despite over 90 percent recognizing the value of such conversations. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
The roadmap transforming the healthcare delivery system takes shape with five key examples affecting home care company?s future. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Explore the importance of building lasting and trusting engagements between hospitals, health systems, ACOs, and home and community-based care based on broader knowledge, closer collaborative goals, and a shared commitment to deliver high-value patient-centered care. You'll dive deep into the challenges and opportunities that can benefit each other to achieve the goal of improved outcomes. The broader exchange of knowledge and greater understanding from each perspective opens the door to trying new approaches and new ways of working together. In our three webinars, our discussions focus on:- Webinar 1: Trends & market signals transforming hospitals, health systems, and ACOs. What it means for growth and mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Webinar 2: Sharing common goals. Alignment of financial and quality to improve patient-centered care and consistency in performance outcomes.
- Webinar 3: Creating innovation partnerships. Opportunity identification to build relationships on the foundation of trust, close collaboration, and solutions.
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Additional enrollees will be enabled upon completion of initial enrollee. Company email addresses required. Think Tank programs are open only to provider organizations delivering patient care, including home health care, at-home care, hospice, palliative care, community-based organizations, hospitals, ACOs, managed care organizations, and physicians. Enrollees for the program must be full-time employees of the organization. If you are unsure whether your organization qualifies for Think Tank programs or your organization is a provider that also sells products, services or you are a consultant then contact us before enrolling. -
What post-acute care providers need to know about a new rule that includes updated payment policies, payment rates, and quality provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
With Medicare Advantage plans, it?s all about rebates. Learn from five major insurers the reasons supplemental benefits are limited. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Investors are pouring billions of dollars to enhance care in the home. The global smart home healthcare market is forecasted to attain a revenue of $30.0 billion by 2023. The market is mainly driven by the growing geriatric population escalating the demand for personalized healthcare which in turn is increasing the demand for mHealth technologies and advancements in smart home healthcare technologies. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Sarah Szanton pioneered a care approach to provide low-income older adults with handyman services alongside in-home nursing visits and occupational therapy to help them live more independently. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) recently announced five new payment models transforming?kidney care so that patients?with chronic kidney disease have access to high quality, coordinated care. The payment models are in response to an executive order signed by President Trump on advancing kidney health. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
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. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers. -
Post-acute organizations need consulting physicians’ services. The OIG continues to scrutinize these relationships. What are the three things providers should know before signing agreements? This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers.
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