President Biden Wednesday signed legislation extending the moratorium on Medicare sequestration. That occurred after the U.S. House of Representatives late Tuesday passed the Medicare Sequester Relief Act, which extended mandated 2% Medicare cuts to healthcare providers until the end of the year.
McKnight’s Home Care will hold a FREE webinar on April 29 on the subject of the landmark Request for Anticipated Payment (RAP) regulations.
President Joseph Biden’s $400 billion plan to upgrade the nation’s caregiving infrastructure could include ways to help middle-income Americans pay for long-term care through Medicare of Medicaid.
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped forge an alliance between a Medicare Advantage company and a provider of post-acute-home-based care (PAHC). Miramar, FL-based onehome is partnering with Waltham, MA-based Devoted Health to deliver expanded care to members in Arizona, Ohio and San Antonio, TX.
Payment reforms, technology and government support are combining to drive strong momentum for the hospital-at-home (HaH) model.
Will a new report on long-term care financing spur action where others have not? Time will tell. But time is of the essence.
Thanks to a push by several nonprofit organizations and the natural evolution of Medicare coverage, the time could be ripe for the federal government to make home-delivered meals a part of the nation’s healthcare continuum.
Home care and home health care workers could play a greater role in their patients’ care if more physicians sign up for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) Primary Care First (PCF) model, physician and healthcare advisor Arif Kamal, M.D., told McKnight’s Home Care Daily.
Ten more senior living and care organizations in Minnesota have joined the provider network of an HMO institutional special needs plan, a targeted insurance program aimed at improving care, reducing costs and providing navigation services.
On Monday, the American Medical Association (AMA) asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to continue paying for audio-only telehealth visits beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).
