McKnights Homecare

McKnight’s Home Care is the newest member of the McKnight’s brand family, dedicated to delivering the latest updates in the home care sector to professionals in the field. This outlet focuses on various aspects of home care, including in-home personal assistance, home health services, hospice, and palliative care. Its audience consists of key figures in their organizations, such as owners, executives, clinical directors, and other important stakeholders.

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New dashboard breaks down by state, county the number of people using Medicaid HCBS

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.
New bill a ‘game-changer’ for skilled nursing patients at home, providers say

6 days ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Adam Healy

With support from the Home Care Association of America and National Alliance for Care at Home, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) reintroduced the Continuous Skilled Nursing Quality Improvement Act of 2025, which would help individuals with complex medical needs more easily receive high-quality in-home skilled nursing care.
InnovAge agrees to $27M settlement for misleading stock-related statements

6 days ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Adam Healy

InnovAge, the only publicly traded Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly, reportedly has agreed to a $27 million settlement resolving claims that it made misleading statements regarding its initial public offering. A federal Judge in Colorado gave preliminary approval to the plaintiff class, Law360 reported Wednesday.
Loneliness not linked to heightened death risk among home care recipients, major study finds

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.
Medical society urges CMS to give post-acute care interoperable health IT tools

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.
Medicare, Social Security trust funds projected to go broke earlier than expected

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.
Lackluster home care transaction activity this year due to 'fresh uncertainty,' expert says

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.
States would look to trim Medicaid HCBS if federal changes take effect: panel

1 week ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Liza Berger

While the reconciliation bills under consideration in Congress do not explicitly target Medicaid home- and community-based services, make no mistake. If steep federal Medicaid cuts take effect, HCBS will be at the chopping block at the state level. That was the consensus among three experts during a roundtable discussion Tuesday sponsored by The SCAN Foundation.
Providers advise CMS to create centralized MA payment portal to cut administrative burden

1 week ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Liza Berger

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should create a centralized Medicare Advantage (MA) payment and claims portal as well as establish a single, standardized prior authorization portal across all MA plans to reduce administrative burden and costs. These are just two recommendations LeadingAge, which represents nonprofit home care providers, made in response to CMS’ April 11 request for information following President Trump’s Jan.
States allocate highest percentage of revenue to Medicaid in FY 2023 in 20 years: report

1 week ago | mcknightshomecare.com | Liza Berger

States’ share of revenue dedicated to Medicaid rose by 17.8%, or $44.4 billion, in fiscal year 2023 — the largest increase in two decades, according to a new report by Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit whose goals are to improve public policy, inform the public and invigorate civic life. States that year spent 15.1% of every state-generated dollar on Medicaid, up 2.2 percentage points from the previous year.