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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The most important societal challenge is aging, often associated with chronic disease and increased multimorbidity; nevertheless, the costs of an aging society will not be sustainable in terms [...]

Home health care agencies are on the brink of experiencing prospective payment systems which will prove to be a major environmental shift. What will be the best strategy to offset the effects of prospective payment systems? Longitudinal studies of hospitals facing similar pressures may offer the best solution. This paper offers an attempt to address whether proactive or low cost strategies will provide home health agencies with higher firm performance after prospective payment systems.

Home care is not pretty. In the eyes of most health care executives, it lacks the flash and dazzle of higher-tech acute care. And when you compare the two, home [...]

Common knowledge about Medicare Advantage (MA) in the home care industry is now getting attention from the general public for the first time, and home health agencies hope the information [...]

Home health care industry sees explosive growth as, more and more, recuperation means returning home. Mary Heinrich woke up one morning and wondered where she was. She was in an [...]

WASHINGTON--CMS Administrator Mark McClellan told lawmakers last week that giving patients more options for where they receive long-term care--including in the home--is one way to address the government's skyrocketing health [...]

Two companies producing equal sales of the same products and services do not produce equal profit margins. Is it because of different management competencies, locations or pricing methods? Sometimes, the [...]

Given the current and upcoming conditions of our industry, wouldn't it be nice to take an arbitrary business temperature to see if you're running a fever or are just fine [...]

In a March 16 report, the government's General Accounting Office said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should closely monitor how states use the upper payment limit, a maximum [...]

A new home-health assistance Medicaid program is being planned by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), allowing physically disabled and elder members t choose their own caregivers. The program is creating concerns over possible fraud and could hurt the state's 500 businesses that provide the same type of service.

A new home-health assistance Medicaid program is being planned by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), allowing physically disabled and elder members t choose their own caregivers. The program is creating concerns over possible fraud and could hurt the state's 500 businesses that provide the same type of service.

In 1995, Sandra Arbuckle saw an opportunity for a small player to beat the big guys at their own game. Ten years later, her Progressive Home Care Services is making [...]

There are provisions in the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 other than the interim and eventual prospective payment system. Some of these provisions are aimed at helping the smaller [...]

If dealing with Medicare Part B billing rules was not enough of a trip through the looking glass, a change playing out over the past year has made it even [...]

The rising cost of hospitalization and economic constraints imposed by the managed care industry fueled the growth of home health care, once considered a luxury for the financially endowed, to [...]

In the future, home care will look very different than it does today. For one thing, services will be reimbursed on a prospective payment basis, which means that agencies will [...]

NEW YORK -- Home health care is increasingly gaining recognition as being a vital component in the nation's changing health care system and as a profitable category for drug chains. [...]

NEW YORK--The opportunities that drug chains have in the home health care category do not come without challenges. Chief among them are developing effective category presentations, fine-tuning the merchandise mix, [...]

NEW YORK -- The incontinence market is an important component of the overall home health care category, and it is a segment that's going through change. 'People's buying habits are [...]

NEW YORK--Although they will surely face increasing competition from supermarkets and discounters in home health care, drug chains are well positioned to succeed in the category. Pharmacists filling prescriptions for [...]

According to Genworth's 2010 Cost of Care Survey, home care costs, as well as costs of other long-term care services, are lower in Mississippi than they are nationally. The median [...]

WASHINGTON -- Medicare patients with diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or congestive heart failure who used home health care within three months of being discharged from a hospital cost the [...]

Home Health Care A Growth Industry Home health care may soon be a booming industry for LI. Last year, the top ten national providers of home health care generated $1.8-B, [...]

The lack of qualified pediatric nurses in Long Island, NY, who could provide the needed care for newborn babies in homes is causing an increase in expenses. This is because babies which require special attention have to be hospitalized for a longer time. This requires higher costs because hospital costs are five times those of pediatric home care nurses. The rise in the cost of living and dwindling rates paid to home care nurses have forced many of them to increase their hospital work., Long Island patients like newborn Natalie Buck of Smithtown are increasingly remaining hospitalized far longer than necessary - and at five times the cost of home care - because of [...]

As the senior population continues to grow, the country appears to be facing a shortage of home-care workers. In Arizona, more and more companies are beginning to employ home-care aides. [...]

NEW YORK--As the primary consumers of health care products, senior citizens are also the primary beneficiaries. As a result of improved medical care, including access to prescription and over-the-counter drugs, [...]

NEW YORK--Home health care will present drug chains with a huge opportunity in the coming years. A confluence of factors originating both inside and outside the industry has placed them [...]

Prepaids' use of home health services booming Home health providers apparently can look forward to a bright future when it comes to prepaid health plans. Preliminary findings from a forthcoming [...]