Published by McKnight’s Home Care
Adam Healy
As the Medicare payer landscape evolves, understanding patients’ characteristics can help home health providers better serve their clients, according to the Research Institute for Home Care.
On Thursday, to this end, the organization released a report that provides state-by-state data on states’ home health populations. The report includes each state’s total number of home health workers, home health beneficiaries, the share of these patients with three or more chronic conditions, and more.
“As Medicare Advantage continues to grow, I think it’s just critically important to know who it is serving and how that is either similar or different to the Medicare home health population at large,” Jennifer Schiller, executive director at RIHC, said in an interview with McKnight’s Home Care Daily Pulse. “It’s about seeing, in a more granular level, the impact of home health and who specifically this care is impacting and helping.”
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