The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. November 2, 2022
Benefits of Integrated Care Team Communication for Home Care Agencies
Millions of patients receive home care every year. For Home Care Agencies, timely and effective communication among the care team plays a critical role in providing quality patient care. Connected Care Team will lead to successful patient outcomes, improved patient satisfaction, improved employee satisfaction, and growth while being compliant with regulatory requirements. Using disparate means of communication will lead to poor communication, inefficient process, and care team members working in silos.
Home Health Care agencies should take a holistic view of their needs for a software platform rather than just focusing on their EVV needs. Using an integrated home care software platform to meet all the requirements of a home care agency will provide significant benefits that will outweigh the cost savings of ‘Free’ EVV.
Healthcare is an incredibly stressful career field. Caregivers constantly face things others could never even dream of, and providing care in a home-based setting adds to that stress. Caregivers in home-based settings work most of their time independently, develop a closer relationship with the patient and family, and often work long hours. To prevent burnout, caregivers need to maintain an excellent work-life balance.
Home Healthcare Industry News
CMS Backs Off Severe Cuts, Finalizes 0.7% Increase To 2023 Provider Payments
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its FY 2023 home health final payment rule late Monday.
It comes with an estimated increase to 2023 home health payments of 0.7%, or $125 million, compared to 2022 aggregate payments. Although it sets up certain financial challenges moving forward, the final rule is better news for providers than what was previously expected.
What Home Health Providers May Change Due To Final Rule
Now that the final payment rule for the home health care industry is officially out, providers and advocates will take the long-awaited next step.
For advocates, that will mean continuing legislation efforts. Although the final rule includes a 0.7% aggregate payment bump for home health agencies, behavioral adjustment cuts are still being implemented. That’s a phased-in approach that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to continue in coming years.
Medicaid must do better, experts tell commission
Medicaid’s barriers to access are making it difficult for hundreds of thousands of people to thrive in their communities under the program, according to policy experts who testified last week before the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission.
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