Category: Hospice

Health Policy and Economics

Value-Based Care: Why it Matters, or Should, for Post-Acute Providers

Value-Based Care is kind of a vogue term, one that I encounter quite often. I also have used it when speaking or writing and know most people have no idea what it means or how…

Hospice

Five Quality and Compliance Tips

A major concentration within my firm, H2 Healthcare, is compliance work. My wife heads this section of the practice, and she is widely known as one of (if not THE) the foremost post-acute/senior living experts…

Health Policy and Economics

Wednesday Feature: CMS Targeting 400 Hospices for Administrative Action

Usually I try to add some “light and levity” to my Wednesday features as the content on this site is pretty heavy health policy and economics, regulatory in nature, etc. In my work, my usual…

Assisted Living

Friday Feature: SNFs and Hospices

Typically, I get the Friday Feature posts out early enough on a Friday for folk to read before a longer weekend or leaving the office early. Working today with my wife on an SNF/Hospice litigation…

Health Policy and Economics

The Status of RNs in Health Care

Nurses, particularly RNs, and their role and work in health care is a subject of deep interest to me. My wife is a nurse, our daughter is a nurse, my mom was a nurse, and…

Hospice

News and Upcoming Quality Program

Yesterday, I wrote a post regarding health systems and providers looking at finding efficiencies and, in some cases, cutting staff – particularly at the administrative and executive levels. Providers are being tasked with making do…

Health Policy and Economics

Cuts and Layoffs are Happening

As the economy remains “challenging” and providers are finding rising capital costs and rising staffing costs, survival mode is where many are operating. For any hospital, SNF, Home Health Agency, or Hospice, labor (wages and…

Health Policy and Economics

Hospice 2024 Final Rule and Home Health Update: Preserving Access Legislation

For early August, this is a semi-busy week with health policy stuff and upcoming econ data on inflation. Congress is on recess but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a fair amount of activity in-play…

Health Policy and Economics

Not Just Senior Living…Hospitals Too

Lately I’ve written a fair amount (multiple articles) regarding the economic conditions in senior living/post-acute care. The current economic headwinds of rising capital costs/interest rates, labor scarcity, rising costs due to labor scarcity and commodity…

Health Policy and Economics

Jobs Data and Staffing Status Update

With reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics out this past week, the job market remains relatively strong and healthcare within the market, similarly strong. Unemployment remained at 3.6% and labor participation remained at 62.6%…

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Reg

Healthcare executive, consultant, and author covering post-acute care, senior living, and the economics behind both - for 30+ years.

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