On February 2, Moving Health Home (MHH) sent a letter to President Biden on the President's Budget Request to Congress. In the letter, MHH asks President Biden work to remove regulatory barriers to ensure all patients may choose to receive clinical care in the home and take advantage of the convenient, high-quality care that [...]
Annals of Internal Medicine: Early Uptake of the Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver Hospital at home (HaH) provides acute hospital-level care in a patient's home as a substitute for traditional inpatient hospital care. Despite a robust evidence base, dissemination of HaH has been limited. One important barrier to scaling HaH has been the [...]
Avalere – Home Care Services Reduce Medicare Spending for 30 Chronic Conditions Demonstrating a positive impact on clinical and economic outcomes has been a long-standing challenge for the home care industry due to fragmented care standards across states, the lack of standardized measures in personal care, and limited access to claims data that would [...]
Axxess: Home Health and Home Care Staffing Survey Results 2021 The results of this survey from Axxess and Home Health Care News show the views of 753 home-based care professionals polled about their thoughts on home health and home care staffing in 2021. The survey, conducted online between July 21 - August 6, 2021, [...]
Health Affairs: Outcomes After Shortened Skilled Nursing Facility Stays Suggest Potential for Improving Post Acute Care Efficiency Reducing postacute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in favor of home-based care is a leading cost-saving strategy in new payment models. Marked reductions in length-of-stay because of cost sharing shifted patients to home more than a [...]