4 Steps for Home Care to Reduce Readmissions

Private Duty Home Care Industry, NPDA and PDHCA Must Measure Home Care's Impact in Reducing Avoidable Readmissions and Actively Promote Results NOW

5 Things No One Told Me Before I Launched an ACO

"If I had known then what I know now..."

CMS Penalties for Avoidable Readmissions Have Started

The entire healthcare world has known for a long time that yesterday was coming: the day that CMS started penalizing hospitals for what are called avoidable readmissions. That's right--THAT just happe[...]

Population Health IT for ACOs

Care Coordination: Medical Home Model Delivers Results

N.J. Medical Home Collaboration Pays Off for Patients, Physicians, and Insurer

Accountable Care Organizations, Explained

Significant confusion remains about Accountable Care. This overview from Kaiser Health News is a good primer for Hospitals, ACOs, and post acute providers. While existing ACOs and Hospitals are genera[...]

Storm Watch: Managing Care Transitions & Home Care In A Storm

Storms threaten the delivery of healthcare services, but a little planning and some good technology can help hospitals, ACOs and post acute providers of all types. In the mid Atlantic, we've just ente[...]

Care Coordination and Checklists are How We Heal Health Care

One of the people I've come to greatly respect is Atul Gawande. He's a doctor and an author and we've featured him numerous times on the Ankota blog including as the author of Ankota's book of the yea[...]

Performance Improvement in Managing Care Transitions

The Healthcare Finance Managers Association (HFMA) posted their most recent HFMA Education report, titled "Using Formal Process Improvement for Revenue Cycle Management." I am going to ask you to igno[...]

Assumptions on In-House Home Health Agencies Debunked

Hospice and Hospital Market Research Provider Dispels Myths Regarding Post Acute Care Recent Healthcare Market Resources (HMR) research verifies that hospitals' "inhouse" agencies do not command a dom[...]

Employers Look to Direct Contract with Doctors, What about Home Care

I came across a post on the American Medical News web site. Discussing the issue that more self-insured employers are considering direct contracting with healthcare providers. The drive health benefit[...]

6 Lessons for Home Health Care from Fifty Shades of Gray?!?

Maybe you don't want to give a copy of Fifty Shades of Gray to your elderly home care patients, but you might just learn some valuable things from the block-buster novel. If you are a physical therapi[...]