Medicaid

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday released long-awaited guidance for hospice surveyors that fundamentally transforms the survey process, according to a regulatory expert from LeadingAge.

Provider groups are cautiously optimistic that Congress this year will pass a newly introduced Better Care Better Jobs Act that would expand home- and community-based services.

Orlando Health announced earlier this week it has tapped healthcare technology platform Biofourmis to help roll out a hospital-at-home program across its 23-hospital system.

The number of Medicare Advantage plans offering in-home support services as a benefit increased by approximately 32% this year, according to an analysis by ATI Advisory.

Medicare Advantage and managed care organizations could be the secret to growing Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), according to InnovAge CEO Patrick Blair. 

Encouraged by the government’s two-year extension on acute care at home, hospitals are now poised to move emergency department care into the home as well.

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice praised a recommendation Wednesday by the Government Accounting Office that would require hospice providers to report patient abuse and neglect to the Centers...

Amedisys Chairman and CEO Paul Kusserow forecast more favorable home health rate increases beyond 2023.

New York state took its first step in drawing up a master plan for aging Monday as more than two dozen members of a stakeholder advisory committee set to work devising the plan

Older adults receiving Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) had excess mortality rates from COVID-19 similar to those in nursing homes