Home Health Care News July 5, 2020
Earlier in June, the Trump administration and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) touted a “renewed national commitment to value-based care.”
But for that renewed commitment to take off in the home health care space, government officials need to act fast, industry insiders caution. There’s a widening value-based care gap between larger home health providers and smaller mom-and-pop shops.
“I see a big gap that’s continuing to widen between the top, really large home health, hospice and personal care providers and the smaller, regional chains,” Fred Bentley, a managing director at Avalere Health, told Home Health Care News. “This was a gap that was very much present prior...