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CMS To Continue Medicare Complaint Investigations Alleging Harm During Government Shutdown

While the government shutdown has paused Medicare functions that impact the home health industry, including the hospital-at-home waiver and telehealth flexibilities, some Medicare complaint investi...

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Fewer Medicare Advantage Plans Offer In-Home Supports

Despite increasing Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment growth, the plans offering in-home support services decreased between 2024 and 2025. That was one key takeaway from a recent report from...

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HHCN FUTURE: “We Didn’t Lose Our Holiday Weekend”: How AI Freed Home Care Teams from Burnout

This article is sponsored by Zingage. This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Ali Dean, Chief Care Officer at New Horizons In-Home Care, Kunu Kaushal, CEO at Senior Solutio...

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How PACE Avoids Institutional Bias To Keep People In Their Homes

The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is designed to keep older adults in their homes by using multidisciplinary care teams, including home-based care providers, and leveraging a...

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The Pitfalls That Derail Home Health Providers’ New Palliative Care Efforts

For home health companies, embracing palliative care can elevate overall service offerings. However, providers are sometimes stopped in their tracks before establishing a program that can help impr...

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Cornerstone Caregiving Announces Sponsorship of LTCCP® Training Amid Rising Demand for In-Home Care and Surge in LTC Insurance Claims

Cornerstone Caregiving Announces Sponsorship of LTCCP® Training Amid Rising Demand for In-Home Care and Surge in LTC Insurance Claims FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Waco, TX – October ...

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Surprising suburban towns are becoming retirement hotspots where America’s ‘middle-class’ seniors lounge in leisure

THREE surprising cities have been named the top retirement hotspots as nearly 74 million people plan to retire in the next few years. Americans are going beyond the typi...

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Lawmakers Question Modivcare’s $750M Transportation Contract After Bankruptcy

Maine lawmakers have recently pushed the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to reconsider its 10-year, $750 million contract with Modivcare. Modivcare, a provider of...

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How PocketRN Is Leveraging Home Care To Navigate CMS’ GUIDE Model

Since the launch of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model last year, virtual nursing platform PocketRN has formed an abundanc...

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Reducing The Medicare Advantage Delta In Home-Based Care With AI, New Operating Models

The home-based care industry is plagued by regulatory, administrative and staffing challenges, among others. However, the most acute challenge facing providers, according to Luke Rutledge, presiden...

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My 95-year-old grandmother doesn't want to move to an assisted living facility. We are stuck with an impossible choice.

The author's twins sharing twin with his grandmother.Courtesy of the authorMy 95-year-old grandmother refuses to leave her home even though she needs 24/7 care.We're watching her deteriorate while ...

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Payviders Exploit Loophole In Medical Loss Ratio, Driving Hidden Medicare Advantage Cost Growth

Major health insurers have increasingly integrated care provider entities into their portfolios, including home-based care offerings – and are using their provider arms to inflate care prices and e...

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Pennant ‘Primed’ For Southeast Growth As Amedisys, UnitedHealth Deal Nears Close

The Pennant Group’s (Nasdaq: PTNG) acquisition of home health and hospice agencies divested as part of UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) acquisition of Amedisys is slated to close within the first f...

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Seniors and Sleep: How to Improve Your Rest

Sleep has a remarkable way of restoring the body and mind. For seniors, it supports energy, clear thinking, and overall well-being, helping each day begin with strength and confidence. While sleep ...

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Addressing Medicare’s Affordability Gap: Low-Income Beneficiaries Face Significant Challenges Despite Assistance

While financial assistance programs help some Medicare beneficiaries with premiums and cost-sharing, low- and near low-income individuals still face significant affordability challenges. ...

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Home Care Industry To Face 6.1M Job Openings By 2034 As Low Wages Fuel Turnover

The home care workforce is projected to add more new jobs than any other occupation in the U.S. over the next decade – but also projected to have over 6.1 million total job openings due to workers ...

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Home Care Providers Rethink Caregiver Pay Models Ahead Of DOL Overtime Rule

Home care providers are plotting new retention strategies in anticipation of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) reinstatement of the companionship exemption. The DOL proposed to rein...

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Half Of Home-Based Care Providers Plan To Ramp Up AI Utilization Despite Privacy Concerns

As home-based care providers face mounting margin pressure and seek to boost operational efficiency, nearly half plan to increase their investment in artificial intelligence (AI) over the next 12 t...

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AI Adoption Fast-Tracks Home Health Providers’ Path To Value-Based Care

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows promise to improve patient outcomes, simplify operations and enhance patient outcomes while reducing costs, but only a fraction of home health care providers have...

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Why ‘aging in place’ is actually harder for senior than moving (& what to do instead)

Why ‘Aging in Place’ Is Actually Harder Than Moving Aging in place may seem ideal, but it often leads to increased isolation and risks. Explore smarter alternatives for seniors that support...

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Breakfast timing may hold the key to living longer, new research reveals

Eating breakfast earlier in the day may help add years to your life, new research suggests.A decades-long study tracking nearly 3,000 adults over the course of about 30 years found that the timing ...

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