Home Health Care News May 16, 2022
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have considerably increased their home-based care arsenals over recent years.
They’ve also diversified the types of home-based care they offer, and are finally finding ways for it to make economic sense in capitated models. That’s according to the Institute for Accountable Care (IAC), which conducted a wide-ranging study on ACOs and home-based care that was released Thursday.
Of all the home-based care programs started among ACOs, 50% were created from 2017-2019, compared to the only 26% created between 2014-2016 and 24% created in 2013 or earlier.
Furthermore, two-thirds of ACOs reported some sort of home-visit activity. A quarter of all ACOs had formal home-visit programs, another quarter provided occasional home visits and 17% were actively developing...
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