Jan 2, 2025 · When Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) acquired Contessa Health for $250 million in 2021, it changed the home-based care landscape. While other companies had been toying with high-acuity care in the home, that deal sent a clear message: Home-based care was becoming more than just Medicare-certified home health care and personal care services. Since that point, Contessa Health has had to fight an ...

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Jan 3, 2025 · The initial joint venture, Home Recovery Care LLC, provided all essential components of inpatient hospital care within the home through telemedicine, in-home providers and comprehensive care management oversight. Contessa’s proprietary technology, designed to coordinate home-based hospital care, made this system possible. Based in Nashville, Contessa is a pioneer in home recovery care. It ...

Jan 8, 2025 · The hospital-at-home (HaH) model of care has gained significant momentum in recent years and is transforming how care is delivered to patients. This model enhances patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes by providing reliable, high-quality acute care in the comfort of patients’ homes ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Home-based care providers hungry for value-based care arrangements have recently been disillusioned by the process of trying to find those arrangements.

Nov 13, 2024 · “Home-based medical care is a vital piece of the puzzle we need to solve in today’s health care delivery system,” Cory A. Brown, senior community medical director at WellBe Senior Medical, told Home Health Care News. “There are many factors in today’s system that increase the need for home-based care in the future. We are witnessing a rising cost of care, specifically in the gaining ...

Dec 23, 2024 · On Saturday, President Biden signed a spending bill that extended the hospital-at-home waiver program to March 31, 2025. The bill also includes an extension for telehealth flexibilities. “While the hospital at home community was hoping for a 5-year extension to be passed, the extension of the Acute Hospital at Home waiver through the end of March helps patients and their caregivers who need ...

Dec 18, 2024 · Major deals hit snags. Home health cuts continued. Regulatory noise came in from all sides, in Medicare and in Medicaid. All of those realities made their way into Home Health Care News’ most popular stories for the year. In order to summarize the 2024 that providers had, HHCN is revisiting 10 of its most widely read stories.

Jan 6, 2025 · A big part of the evolution of health systems has been more meaningful engagement with the home as an extension of brick-and-mortar operations. In recent years, organizations like Advocate Health and Mass General Brigham have exemplified this shift. These major health systems are reevaluating their home-based care capabilities and partnerships, and leveraging technology and innovative care ...

Dec 5, 2024 · The need for home-based care is drastically increasing. All the while, providers are dealing with an unabated staffing problem. That’s why, in order to succeed in the future, many provider leaders believe that the gap needs to be bridged by the right technology solutions. “We know that most adults want to age in place at home, which is …