Home Health Care News April 26, 2021
There are several trends shaping senior care in the United States, with two of the biggest being continued Medicare Advantage (MA) growth and the steady shift of health care into the home.
Yet if in-home care operators want to capitalize on those trends, they’ll have to break through traditional payment and operational barriers. That’s particularly true for home-based care entities looking to roll out new care models for patients who would have otherwise gone to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
The “SNF-at-home concept” has gained a lot of traction in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are still plenty of questions left to answer, according to Anne Tumlinson, founder and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based ATI Advisory.
“I think...