How Medicare’s payment structure hurts home care’s delivery of wound care
By
Julie Roskamp, RN, CWOCN
Feb 06, 2024
Home care agencies face a significant challenge in delivering cost-effective care for wounded patients within the confines of the current Medicare payment structure. Rising supply and labor costs, coupled...
Caregiver registry trends you’ll see In 2024
By
Julio Barea
Jan 25, 2024
At Ally, we’ve studied the registry space like a science over the last year and compiled our best predictions and trends for 2024.
The home (not the hospital) should be the hub for behavioral healthcare
By
Joe McDonough
Jan 23, 2024
The American mental health system is irreparably broken and demands urgent action. People are struggling, and the wait time to get them help is backing up our healthcare systems, burning out our healthcare...
CMS’ new Behavioral Health Model recognizes seniors’ complex health needs
By
Liza Berger
Jan 19, 2024
Increasingly, it seems, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is grasping the multifaceted health challenges facing older Americans, the value of community-based stakeholders as problem solvers...
Myth-busting: Why you can’t find the quality caregiver applicants
By
Jen Waldron
Jan 18, 2024
It makes for a very confusing problem: Why are there so many unfilled roles and, at the same time, so many applicants to your jobs?
MedPAC’s alternate home health reality
By
Liza Berger
Jan 12, 2024
Home health operators and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) continue to see appropriate reimbursement quite differently
How to navigate the rising tide of caregiver-client poaching
By
Adam Andrew Chambers
Jan 11, 2024
The home care industry is currently grappling with a serious challenge: the escalating poaching of caregivers by their clients.
Digital healthcare can break the cycle of rehospitalizations
By
Jackleen Samuel
Jan 09, 2024
Patients suffering from chronic conditions and receiving end-of-life care often find themselves trapped in a cycle of hospital readmissions — become ill, be admitted, receive care, get released, only...
A worthy New Year’s resolution: Nominating a McKnight’s Woman of Distinction
By
Liza Berger
Jan 05, 2024
Ah, the New Year. The turning of the calendar never fails to offer promise of a new chapter, the promise of change, an improved you.
7 health tech predictions for 2024
By
Patrick Tarnowski
Jan 04, 2024
In 2024, the healthcare technology industry will expand to make clinicians’ lives easier, exerting its influence on more aspects of the patient experience.