Value-Based Care Gets Real
The mandatory CMS TEAM program begins next year. Are you ready? As hospitals consider their options for addressing the mandate, here are some actions to consider.
How Data and Technology Are Strengthening the Relationships Between Accountable Care Organizations and Skilled Nursing Facilities
With more SNFs being penalized and an increasing number of patients being referred to home health care, participating in an ACO may be a strategic solution to improving care coordination, organizational goals, and patient outcomes overall.
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Why Your Patients Are Leaving and How to Stop It
Patient expectations continue to evolve, and healthcare practices that fail to adapt risk more than just revenue—they risk losing trust.
Nursing Homes, Beware! Supreme Court Greenlights Civil Lawsuits to Enforce FNHRA
The Supreme Court’s recent summer decision in Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Indiana, et al. v. Talevski has raised the stakes for nursing homes by ruling that private litigants may bring civil claims against facilities to recover damages for violations of certain provisions of the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (FNHRA). This decision provides powerful incentives for nursing homes and other facilities subject to the FNHRA to enhance their monitoring and compliance processes.
Opinion: We Need To Expand How We Think About Home-Based Health Care. SNF at Home Is a Step in the Right Direction
Patients no longer need to be tied to traditional care delivery models to receive exceptional care. Providers, payers and policymakers must continue working together to expand home-based health care and meet the preferences and needs of our aging population.
The shift from community dialysis to ‘in-home’ treatments at skilled nursing facilities
The critical, pragmatic steps involved in developing patient-centric and equitable care for the nursing home patients came only very recently when medically advanced home hemodialysis therapies were repurposed and modified for use in the elderly frail nursing home dialysis patient populations
The shift to home care: Another new normal resulting from Covid-19
Covid-19 has highlighted the critical importance of increased communication and transparency between acute and post-acute providers, and the immediate need for more diverse acute and post-acute care options.
Tackling Rising Drug Costs and Growing Popularity of GLP-1’s
See how Quantum Health is providing the steps to help their members tackle the cost of specialty medications and other drugs.
Startup bringing gig-economy approach to nurse staffing raises $45M
IntelyCare, a healthcare staffing solution for post-acute care, raised $45 million in equity and debt financing. The startup uses its software to match nurses with open shifts, adjusting pricing accordingly.
Report projects passive monitoring tech adoption will shape post-acute care facility landscape
A new Frost and Sullivan report suggests that post-acute care facilities could strengthen their positions in an increasingly competitive landscape by integrating continuous monitoring technology and improving the outcome of high acuity patients.
IMPACT is actually impacting Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) and Home Health Agencies
If you're not familiar with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act yet, it’s time to get up to speed.