Home Health Care News August 29, 2024
Top home health leaders maintain that they’re operating in a space filled with “tons of opportunity.”
Payment uncertainty and other contemporary operating dynamics can muddy the waters, but there’s a way through those challenges, those leaders believe.
“I’m going to sound delusional,” Pinnacle Home Care CEO Shane Donaldson told me on stage last week at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE conference. “But I think [the home health industry] is in a great place for the future.”
At the conference, many of the same talking points were hit: Medicare Advantage (MA), fee-for-service rate cuts and staffing.
But providers are on the brink of their third straight year of rate cuts, and are about a decade into significant MA penetration in most...