Home Health Care News May 31, 2023
Fee-for-service (FFS) home health admissions are decreasing quicker than FFS enrollment. Meanwhile, Medicare Advantage (MA) admissions are on the rise.
That’s according to the 2023 post-acute care industry trends report from Atlanta-based analytics and metrics firm Trella Health.
The report takes a closer look at a number of topics, including MA enrollment, home health admissions and other utilization data.
Between Q2 of 2019 and 2022, annual FFS admissions fell by 16.4%, on average. In that same time frame, fee-for-service enrollment fell by 9.1%.
One of the reasons for such a substantial drop in admissions is due to the drop in FFS inpatient discharges, Trella Health’s senior data analyst Carter Bakkum said Wednesday during a webinar.
Between Q3 of 2019 and...