In his many years in personal home care, Caring Senior Service CEO Jeff Salter has seen trends come and go. One he has stuck with, however, is a constant commitment to searching for the next advancements in technology. Between recruiting, onboarding and care management plans, Caring Senior Service have prided themselves on leveraging technology to […]
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For years, many industry advocates have pushed for more standardization across home care. Home care licensure is largely seen as one of the main avenues to industry standardization. Though the majority of states in the country require home care businesses to have some form of licensure, the stipulations are different depending on the state. “It […]
When home-based care provider leaders discuss implementing new technologies in the home, they often talk about how those technologies can improve efficiency and lower costs. However, getting buy-in from clients and patients in the home is a lot easier said than done. Having patients use technologies like wearable devices, remote patient monitoring software and tablets […]
Home health providers are now just weeks away from finding out what their fee-for-service reimbursement fate will be for CY2024. Ahead of that, home health leaders are still speaking out about the importance of advocacy – and what that advocacy has done for them and their peers over the years. “There are so many different […]
The Franchise Times recently released its annual ranking of the largest franchise systems in the country. Of the 500 companies that grabbed a spot on the list, 16 are home-based care franchise companies. The list is based on last year’s global systemwide sales — total sales for both franchise and company units — performance. In […]
Personal home care and home health care are both branches connected to the post-acute care family tree. As such, home care leaders believe that there are numerous ways that their organizations can help alleviate home health provider pain points. One major pain point that can be seen across home health care are referral rejection rates. […]
In a move to accelerate growth, Caring Senior Service has added home care veteran Jeff Bevis to its leadership team. Bevis joins the company as chief operating officer, a new position at the company. “I see the Caring Senior Service story as kind of a best kept secret,” Bevis told Home Health Care News. “I […]
For someone who covers both the home health and home care sectors, 2023 was a very interesting year. Much of my time and energy was spent on covering potential home health payment cuts after the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) release of the proposed payment rule. Even after the final rule was […]
Whether to engage with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans or not is one of my favorite topics of discussion in home care right now. And that’s for a simple reason: Not everyone agrees on the answer. The MA debate is one we’ve been discussing on Home Health Care News for a long time now. In fact, […]
Shifting health care payer trends have home-based care providers stuck between two battling business decisions: “adapt or die,” or sustainability. Those two decisions may look like one in the same to outsiders, but for home care operators grappling with whether to engage with Medicare Advantage (MA), they sometimes posit providers on different sides of the […]