Home Health Care News November 15, 2020
Robert Holly

Individual and clinical characteristics of home health patients continue to shift, reflective of both America’s aging population and providers’ ability to handle more acute cases.

That’s according to the latest Home Health Chartbook, an annual overview of the home health landscape put together by the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation and Avalere Health.

In addition to highlighting the industry’s ever-changing patient population, the Chartbook also details the economic contribution of home health providers on the U.S. economy.

Compared to the overall Medicare population, home health patients tend to be older and slightly more economically vulnerable, the Chartbook suggests. Home health patients additionally tend to reside in rural areas and live alone at slightly higher rates than the broader...

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