Home Health Care News April 6, 2020
The coronavirus is making it harder for home-based care providers to stay afloat, mainly by draining basic protective equipment and disrupting organizations’ staffing levels.
More than 72% of home-based care professionals don’t have adequate amounts of personal protective equipment (PPE), while more than half say their organizations are having staffing struggles.
Meanwhile, nearly 58% of home-based care professionals have seen billing and cash flow interrupted over the past two weeks.
The findings — which come from a survey by Dallas-based Axxess, a cloud-based software solutions developer for home health, home care and hospice providers — further support the dire need for federal telehealth reimbursement relief for home health providers. That’s something industry advocates have been pushing for since...
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