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Home health care is intermittent professional healthcare provided to a patient in their home. Working under the physician’s ordered plan of care, Baptist Health Home Care’s team of professionals educates patients about their illness or recovery from surgery, teaches the patient how to best manage their condition, secures needed medical equipment and supplies, and coordinates care with the physician, family, caregivers and community resources. Families are…

Roughly $108.8 billion is projected to be spent on home health care in the United States in 2019, according to a newly released analysis from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary. U.S. expenditures on home health care are projected to hit $186.8 billion by 2027. An aging population, a …

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Millions of people use home health care services. Changes to Medicare coverage in 2020 shifted the focus from quantity of care to quality of care.

The idea that the home setting could serve as an alternative care site — taking the pressure off of hospitals facing over-capacity challenges — really took flight in the midst of the COVID-19 emergency. In some ways, large health systems with home-based care arms were able to navigate this shift more seamlessly. As another COVID-19 …

Home health providers aggressively changing how they’re delivering physical, occupational and speech therapy services need to remember one thing: The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is watching. Since Jan. 1, several industry-leading providers that Home Health Care News has connected with in the aftermath of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) have reaffirmed …

Therapy layoffs, conversions to part-time status and general service reductions are beginning to ramp up in the home health space, multiple professional association groups told Home Health Care News. So much so, in fact, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may be preparing to speak up. The current shift in how and …

The decision came out of the blue. “Your husband isn’t going to get any better, so we can’t continue services,” an occupational therapist told Deloise “Del” Holloway in early November. “Medicare isn’t going to pay for it.”
The therapist handed Del a notice explaining why the home health agency she represented was terminating care within 48 hours. “All teaching complete,” it concluded. “No further hands on skilled care. Wife states she knows how to perform exercises.”

Home health care therapy layoffs linked to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) may not be as widespread as most industry insiders feared, new findings suggest. But 2020 is still young — and there’s no telling what the rest of the year will bring for the industry’s physical, occupational and speech therapists now that the coronavirus …

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Luna — an on-demand physical therapy company — recently secured partnerships with two separate health systems.

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After running her own business for 30 years, Fair Oaks resident Lisa Lyles says she wanted her next venture to touch people's lives. “As we hit that aging tsunami, there are opportunities for business folks like myself,” said Byron Cordes, president of Sage Care Management, which works with seniors to identify their appropriate level of care based on their health and personal finances. [...] part, Lyles…

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Over the years, in-home care providers have been forced to become increasingly creative when it comes to retention. One company, Royal Care, has been able to accomplish this in the hyper-competitive New York market, thanks to a unique caregiver perks program. Founded in 1995, Royal Care is an in-home care agency that provides professional nursing …

More than six months have passed since the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) took effect. Despite the ample runway, many home health providers are seemingly still adjusting their therapy strategies, prolonging the initial layoffs, pay cuts and furloughs that took place at the beginning of the year. The coronavirus is largely to blame for the continued …

Virtual reality (VR) company Mieron Inc. was founded in 2015 when its founders watched the value of the technology play out in front of their eyes by helping a 5-year-old girl recover from a traumatic spinal injury. Several years later, those founders are beginning to find out the value of VR in home-based care. Long …

Physical therapy (PT) has the ability to improve activities of daily living (ADLs) and functional ability for Medicare home health beneficiaries with dementia, a recent study published by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has found. The findings stand as a reminder of the value of PT services, despite ongoing changes under the Patient-Driven …

As COVID-19 numbers rise heading into winter, U.S. policymakers and senior care advocates continue to explore new, innovative models that support aging in place. One such model is CAPABLE, an interdisciplinary program out of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing that combines nursing care, occupational therapy and handyman services. While CAPABLE, which stands for “Community …