Home Health
UnitedHealth Group鈥檚 Optum is making another significant push into care delivery after its recent $5.4 billion merger agreement with home care company LHC Group. The question now is: What鈥檚 next for Optum?
The hospital at home model of care is emerging as an important strategy to improve value during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Service lines continue to be interrupted by COVID-19, with no end in sight. The health care workforce is stressed out and stretched thinly amid the so-called Great Resignation wave. Care delivery increasingly is being moved from hospitals to outpatient facilities and the home, thanks in part to an鈥
With the effects of COVID-19 expected to continue for some time, providers can expect many of the trends that developed over the past two years to continue. Care delivered in alternative settings to hospitals, for example, is expected to increase considerably before the decade closes.
We appreciate CMS鈥 issuance of a streamlined rule, which allows HH agencies and their hospital and other local partners to focus on their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Commenting on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 home health prospective payment system proposed rule for calendar year 2022, AHA expressed support for CMS鈥 decision to forego action in CY 2022 on a behavioral adjustment to the Patient Driven Grouping Model case-mix system, while鈥
AHA's comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 calendar year 2022 proposed rule for the HH prospective payment system.
AHA raises 鈥渟ubstantial concerns鈥 with the prototype payment model that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and RTI International are developing for the new unified post-acute care prospective鈥
June 28, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule to update the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS) for calendar year (CY) 2022. CMS will accept comments on this rule through Aug. 27, 2021.
Amazon is pursuing an aggressive strategy to rapidly scale its telehealth service, known as Amazon Care, not only to all its employees but to other employers. But like most of the e-commerce giant鈥檚 health care aspirations, Amazon officials have been notoriously tight-lipped.