States have an opportunity to use the increased federal matching for Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) to accelerate coronavirus vaccination uptake, a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)...
Gathering social determinants of health data continues to be a challenge for Medicare Advantage health plans, according to a report that NORC at the University of Chicago (NORC) compiled for Better...
Regence BlueShield (Regence) has partnered with a home healthcare provider to increase member access to acute home healthcare services.
Regence members in Pierce County, Washington will have access to...
Humana has announced its plan to acquire One Homecare Solutions (onehome) from WayPoint Capital Partners in order to expand value-based care in home healthcare services.
The acquisition accompanies...
After a year of accelerating home healthcare services, payers can build on their coronavirus home healthcare strategies to bolster their home healthcare programs more permanently.
Hospital...
Humana announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the rest of the Kindred at Home program as part of its home healthcare expansion.
“We continue to invest in assets that allow...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) announced a value-based kidney care agreement with a DaVita Integrated Kidney Care program for members who have chronic kidney disease or end stage...
To ensure COVID-19 vaccine access for homebound individuals, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has partnered with the Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA), a health plan that says it has proven best...
Anthem has announced plans to acquire myNEXUS, Inc (myNEXUS) to provide a higher quality of home healthcare services for seniors.
Assuming the closing conditions and procedures continue without any...
While the coronavirus pandemic has forced positive change elsewhere in the healthcare industry, Medicare home healthcare policies still have room to improve, a Commonwealth Fund study discovered.
As...
As Medicare open enrollment approaches, benefits from major payers emphasize lowering out-of-pocket costs and home healthcare benefits.
UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and Cigna are significant...
Home healthcare and remote monitoring are increasingly critical to providing value-based care, improving quality while keeping costs low.
Experts have discovered that, in some cases, remote patient...
CVS Health’s Aetna is using home healthcare to address chronic disease management for those with multiple chronic diseases, the payer announced.
Aetna will partner with Landmark Health...
Humana will be partnering with a chronic kidney disease management and awareness organization to provide home healthcare and care coordination to Medicare Advantage members, the payer recently...
Preventive screenings are now shifting to the in-home setting through in-home screening kits, as payers like Humana innovate ways to carry on primary care and chronic disease prevention services...
Huntsville Hospital and University of Alabama Birmingham Health System (UAB) are partnering to create a value-based Medicare Advantage plan through Viva Health.
“We are true partners in our...
Medicare Advantage plans are slow in creating benefits that serve more than medical needs for severely ill members, potentially because designing and implementing a new healthcare benefit is...
Highmark Health Plan and Contessa are collaborating to raise post-discharge home health to inpatient quality of care levels for Medicare Advantage members.
"Creating a value-based experience that...
Medicare Advantage plans are not providing the same high-quality home healthcare to seniors that traditional Medicare does, Brown University researchers discovered.
According to the study, members of...
On July 11, CMS proposed a rule that would start the transition to value-based payment in the home healthcare field and make a home infusion benefit available to Medicare...
