Home Care & Hospice News Review

Read on for NAHC Report’s regular round-up of important home care, home health, and hospice stories from around the country. If there is a story you would like to share with your fellow home care and hospice professionals, please send it tom@nahc.org A sunny outlook for home care No rain in sight. If there was a […]

As MA penetration tips above 50 percent, home care agencies need to be smart negotiators, experts say

ONC’s Annual Report to Congress Identifies Lack of Post-Acute, Hospice Interoperability as among “Barriers to Progress”

In recent weeks the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued its 2022 Report to Congress, which provides an update on the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information.  The report is an annual requirement enacted as part of the HITECH Act requiring […]

Home-Based Care Providers Wait For Word From CMS As White House Lifts Vaccine Requirements

Preparing For the End of the COVID-19 PHE

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) which began in early 2020 will come to an end on May 11, 2023.  Throughout the PHE various waivers, regulations, enforcement discretion, and sub-regulatory guidance were utilized to ensure access to care and give health care providers the flexibilities needed to respond to the PHE. Some of these flexibilities […]

New Data Brief on Vax Against COVID-19 Among Medicare Beneficiaries Living in Community

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is making available a new data brief on the vaccination against COVID-19 among community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries from January of 2000 to August of 2021. The data brief uses data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to examines uptake of the primary COVID-19 vaccination series during the vaccination […]

CMS Call on Ending COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 3:30 PM (EDT) – 4:30 PM (EDT) RSVP HERE Below is a notice from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) about an upcoming National Office Hours Call on the Ending of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. NAHC has received a number of questions from providers about the waivers and flexibilities […]

Home Care & Hospice News Review

Read on for NAHC Report’s regular round-up of important home care, home health, and hospice stories from around the country. If there is a story you would like to share with your fellow home care and hospice professionals, please send it tom@nahc.org. Lawsuit Filed Against HHS Over Home Health Care Shortcomings Dismissed The U.S. District Court […]

Biden Executive Order Aims to Expand Access to Long-Term Care at Home

President Joseph R. Biden signed an executive order in the Rose Garden on Tuesday, April 18, issuing over 50 directives to almost every Cabinet-level agency to expand access to long-term care and child care. (See White House fact sheet accompanying the executive order.) “The actions we are taking today are about dignity, security, working families, […]

As States Negotiate Budgets, Biden’s Executive Order Puts Home-Based Care At The Forefront

The Home Care Workforce Crisis: A Call to Action

Thurs., May 4, 2023 3:00 – 4:00 EDT REGISTER  Over the course of 2022, the two largest associations representing the home-based care industry, NAHC and HCAOA, joined forces and brought together industry leaders from across the home care spectrum, charged with creating a solutions-focused document to truly address the home care workforce crisis. This collaboration […]

Home Care & Hospice News Review

Read on for NAHC Report’s regular round-up of important home care, home health, and hospice stories from around the country. If there is a story you would like to share with your fellow home care and hospice professionals, please send it tom@nahc.org. Senior care is crushingly expensive. Boomers aren’t ready     Long-term care options are […]