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The Future of Home Health Care: Trends and Predictions

Comfort Home Care

The Shift from Traditional Medicare to Medicare Advantage Industry insiders believe that in 2024, there will be a noticeable shift towards Medicare Advantage (MA) over traditional Medicare. This shift is driven by a growing emphasis on using data and analytics to demonstrate the benefits of home health care.

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AlayaCare Returns to Florida for HomeCareCon July 29 – August 1

AlayaCare

As purely objective observers, this particular presentation (in the Private Duty stream) is not to be missed. This remarkable societal shift is, to draw a parallel, emblematic of the transformations going on now in home health care. Continually growing, Florida’s population now sits at 21.6 million people.

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Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses and Patients

Nurse.com

Rather than leaving the profession altogether, nurses should consider the benefits of home health care positions compared to working in the hospital environment. Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses. This overload is just one of the many new challenges for nurses presented by the pandemic.

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OIG Audits of Hospice Eligibility Are Coming in FY 2023–Are You Ready?

Home Care Pulse

B oth the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) are charged with preventing fraud and abuse related to federal healthcare spending. Financial reasons: Medicare spends 72.10% of their payments for patients with a length of stay greater than 180 days.

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Key Themes to Emerge at Home Care 100 Next Week

AlayaCare

Our team at AlayaCare is pleased to attend and lend our insights as part of a broad-reaching program that touches on key themes impacting home care agencies right now. Here we lay out an assortment of presentations we plan on attending within themes that are driving home care into the near future.

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Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth

Home Care Pulse

And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And then if you think underneath that, there’s Medicare certified home health, palliative, and hospice, that really kind of sits in the home.

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

We had a lot of this in home health, and now it’s hospice’s turn to be scrutinized. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. This seems to go in waves.

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