Home Health Care News December 13, 2024
Andrew Donlan

Home-based care providers hungry for value-based care arrangements have recently been disillusioned by the process of trying to find those arrangements. While they’ve been told value-based care is the way to go, they often end up finding that health systems and payers aren’t as willing to meet them in the middle.

Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer has mentioned this on multiple occasions. Medicare Advantage (MA) payers, when pressed on the idea of a value-based arrangement, generally aren’t willing or able to make agreements with home health providers.

“While I feel they understand the value proposition for home health, it is sometimes difficult for them to get past the unit cost of home health,” she said.

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