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What Hospices Can Learn from Home Health Agencies on New Program Integrity Rules

Hospice News

Hospices seeking to gauge the potential impact of new regulatory actions in the space can look to their counterparts in the home health field. CMS is no doubt hoping for similar results for the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Their recommendations included a temporary moratorium on new hospices enrolling in Medicare.

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CMS Proposes ‘36-Month Rule’ to Curb Hospice License ‘Flipping’

Hospice News

Some of these providers have secured licenses, as well as Medicare certification and, sometimes, accreditation. They then proceed to enroll a small number of patients for whom they never bill Medicare, multiple hospice executives told Hospice News on background. By not billing, they are better able to avoid regulators’ attention.

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Addus Acquires Apple Home Healthcare

Hospice News

In addition to home health care, the company offers heart failure and diabetes management, psychiatric home health, social services, telemonitoring and fall prevention, among other specialty care programs. The previous year Addus bought Chicago-based Summit Home Health for an undisclosed amount.

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5 Most Game-Changing Hospice Deals from 2022

Hospice News

Humana’s two Kindred at Home transactions added notches to the company’s belt as it expands its value-based care portfolio as both a provider and payer. The divestiture fits into Humana’s stated goal of raising its enterprise value by $1 billion , while building out its health care services and Medicare Advantage business.

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AlayaCare Returns to Florida for HomeCareCon July 29 – August 1

AlayaCare

This includes over 16 million adults, of whom nearly four million are seniors – who we know are the main recipients of home and continued care. Our industry had revenue of $9 billion in 2018 , with six percent more businesses in service than back in 2013.

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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