Home Health & Hospice Week
Use New ACO Case Study To Inform Your Agency's Future Strategy
If you’re wondering how you may fit into the changing Medicare landscape that includes Accountable Care Organizations, a new resource may give you some ideas. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a four-page case study of ACO UnityPoint Accountable Care’s home visit program. The ACO’s program focused on patients discharged from the hospital who weren’t eligible for Medicare’s traditional home care benefit. The ACO, which is comprised of nearly 8,000 providers across Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, used both home health staff and ambulatory care stuff in its program, according to the case study. Preliminary analysis of 2018 data suggests beneficiaries who received home visits had lower emergency department use and fewer inpatient hospitalizations than a control group that did not access the home visit program, says the case study at https://innovation.cms.gov/Files/x/aco-casestudy-unitypoint.pdf.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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