Home Health Care News December 6, 2021
Despite Humana Inc.’s (NYSE: HUM) dedication to value-based care models in its own network, it still finds a lot of value from a business perspective in the fee-for-service (FFS) model for home health care.
Now that the Louisville-based company is integrating Kindred at Home, it’s putting on a balancing act between what makes it money and where health care is going.
“What we’ve learned over the last number of years is that the home health industry does very much operate on a fee-for-service basis. Original Medicare is the largest customer,” Humana CFO Susan Diamond said at the BofA Securities Home Care Conference Monday. “We think that that business is significant and has the ability to grow significantly. So we will...