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Long term care facilities provide nursing and daily living assistance to our vulnerable populations. Geriatric patients, especially those over 85, represent a high proportion of this care. Patients with additional trauma or disability often make up the remaining population, as well as some hospice patients. One commonality across this patient...
Annually, 8,357,100 adults need long term care, including nursing facilities, home health, and hospice. Long term care is defined as care for adults who need assistance, medical and non-medical needs, such as with activities of daily living (ADLs) and administrative or financial tasks. The goal of long term care is to provide needed support to...
The introduction of value-based care brings many challenges. While the concept is inherently sound and in many ways overdue, the switch from volume- or service-based remuneration to value- or outcome-based reimbursement is far from simple. This is particularly true for community health centers (CHCs) that operate in Medicaid expansion states and...
Americans are living longer than ever before, and nearly 70 percent of those older than 65 will at some point require support in dealing with the demands of daily life. Nearly all of those who will find themselves in that situation share one belief—there's no place like home. As a result, home care is one of the fastest growing industries in the...
As of late, financing healthcare has become a popular topic in politics. While many sides debate insurance payments and premiums, patients still need day-to-day care. The local community health center is a frontline provider of this daily patient care, including both mental and physical health. From 2006-2008, community health centers averaged...
The regulations regarding the collection of performance data as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) came into effect in January 2017 and is of tremendous importance to primary care providers (PCPs) because it enacts revised methods of clinician reimbursement for the treatment of Medicare patients. This...
Long term care providers across the nation are facing the increasingly critical dilemma of watching costs begin to outpace revenues. Yet, in carefully analyzing those who are successfully navigating this challenge, a common characteristic is observed: nearly all have taken concrete steps to improve patient care.
Cutting healthcare costs is a daily endeavor for many primary care practices. This has become especially important as payers increasingly tie claims reimbursement amounts to quality and cost performances. Many managers and executives of primary care facilities look first at billing and services for cost-cutting ideas, but one more immediate and...
Home truly is where the heart is, which is why many patients choose home healthcare to treat chronic and terminal illnesses. Almost 5 million patients chose home care, as reported in the most recent CDC FastStats data. Home care agencies treat various conditions including Alzheimer's and dementia, heart disease, endocrine problems, immune...
According to the 2015 National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Facts and Figures: Hospice Care in America, 1.6 to 1.7 million patients required hospice care in 2014.
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