Healthcare Finance News May 24, 2024
One technology that’s reduced both loneliness and hospitalizations has been the creation of an interactive TV studio.
Homecare is facing challenges and none are new. Reimbursement rates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are low, and staffing shortages are high, as is demand for home health services due to a rising elderly demographic.
Josh Klein, founder and CEO of Emerest, runs the home health service in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Missouri with plans to expand to other states in the near future. His mother was also in the business of providing care in the home.
The answer to keeping patient care quality high, Klein said, is to create patient communities and to make his employees,...