Liza Berger

6 days ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Adam Healy |Liza Berger

A new dashboard created by ATI Advisory with the support of The SCAN Foundation illustrates Medicaid beneficiaries’ use of home- and community-based services (HCBS) on a state and county-by-county basis. For home care providers, this information is critical given the administration’s focus on cutting spending on Medicaid programs, according to a panel discussion last Tuesday hosted by SCAN.

1 week ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Liza Berger

Loneliness in the general population has been compared to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. But a study of thousands of home care beneficiaries in three countries found that it was not associated with increased risk of death after adjusting for age-related covariates. Researchers studied home care recipients in Canada (sample size: 178,610), Finland (sample size: 35,073), and New Zealand (sample size :169,703), respectively.

1 week ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Liza Berger

The Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) recently urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to develop and fund initiatives giving post-acute care settings interoperable health information technology (IT) tools. “Today’s healthcare environment is defined by a worsening clinician shortage, particularly in PALTC and rural settings,” the organization said in a letter this week to Mehmed Oz, MD, administrator of CMS.

1 week ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Liza Berger

The Medicare and Social Security trust funds will become insolvent earlier than previously projected, according to a report released this week. Social Security’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund and Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund would be able to pay 100% of total scheduled benefits until 2034, one year earlier than reported last year if the projections of both trust funds were combined.

1 week ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Liza Berger

In discussing the highs and lows of home care transaction activity over the last four years, Mark Kulik, senior managing director of The Braff Group, explained it this way. “If anyone out there is a fan of Charles Dickens, I think that the line most appropriate [is]it was the best of times and the worst of times,” he said during a Home Care Industry Update webinar Tuesday sponsored by the law firm Polsinelli.