What Will Home Health Look Like in the Future?

I stumbled across an interesting article about the future of Home Health Care while browsing for a topic to discuss today. The article entitled “The Future of Home Health Care: A Strategic Framework for Optimizing Value” discusses what home health care will look like in the future, and makes recommendations for Medicare-certified home health agencies. Below are a few highlights from the article.

We’ve heard talks in health care about achieving the “Triple Aim” but what is that anyway? The Triple Aim is a framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and lays out a way for improving the health care system in the US. In order to achieve the Triple Aim, Health care organizations must achieve three key goals in unison. They must achieve improvement in the client experience of care, improvement in the health of populations, and reduction in the per capita cost of health care (Landers et al., 2016)

Another area highlighted in the article is on Medicare alternative payment models and their impact. See snippet below.

Programs Estimated Impact Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) 464 ACOs in 49 States and DC 8.9 million Medicare beneficiaries Generated about $400 million in savings in 2014 Bundled Payments for Care Improvement 1,574 providers participating About 14,000 episodes being tested for 48 conditions Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement About 800 hospitals in 67 Metropolitan Statistical Areas ( MSAs) and 23 % of all lower extremity joint replacements $12.3 billion in Medicare spending over five years Independence at Home Demonstration 17 participating practices $25 million in savings in performance year 1

Recommendations

Some of the recommendations were, ” home health care needs to be empowered as a full partner that both shares in the risk and has freedom to deploy the best care to the patient populations who can undoubtedly benefit”. “CMS should address financing and regulatory challenges”. “Testing waiver of regulatory limits such as the homebound requirement in select cases” (Landers et al., 2016).

I would recommend checking out the article as there are lots of valuable information included. Read more at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1084822316666368

Reference

Landers, S., Madigan, E., Leff, B., Rosati, R., McCann, B., Hornbake, R., MacMillan, R., …Breese, E. (2016). The Future of Home Health: A Strategic Framework for Optimizing Value. Retrieved from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1084822316666368

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