HBPC in the News

4/24/19  |  aahcm.org The American Academy of Home Care Medicine (AAHCM) is pleased to share initial details on two new Alternative Payment Models (APMs) that promote primary care of Medicare beneficiaries with complex, advanced illness. The high-level outlines of these new APMs were announced on April...

April 22, 2019  |  CMS.gov This is the speech (as prepared) delivered by HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar, April 22, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us. Thank you in particular to the American Medical Association for inviting us...

Fierce Healthcare  |  Paige Minemyer  |  Apr 22, 2019 WASHINGTON D.C.—The Trump Administration is experimenting with several new primary care payment models, including one that would shift providers to global payments. Called the Primary Cares initiative, the aim is to push primary care providers to take on...

Apr 22, 2019  |  cms.gov Primary Care First is a set of voluntary five-year payment model options that reward value and quality by offering innovative payment model structures to support delivery of advanced primary care. In response to input from primary care clinician...

April 23, 2019  |  Susannah Luthi  |  Modern Healthcare HHS on Monday launched an ambitious, double-pronged strategy to shift primary care from fee-for-service payments to a global fee model where clinicians and hospitals could assume varying amounts of risk. HHS Secretary Alex Azar told a crowd...

Apr 22, 2019  |  cms.gov The CMS Primary Cares Initiative to Empower Patients and Providers to Drive Better Value and Results Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema...

Thomasnet.com  |  Staff writer  |  April 10, 2019 Amazon has recently taken a series of significant steps to strategically position itself to disrupt the U.S. health sector. The retail giant has a number of advantages that will accelerate its entry into...

Unnecessary ED visits from chronically ill patients cost $8.3 billion By Maria Castellucci  | Modern Healthcare  |  February 7, 2019 About 30% of emergency department visits among patients with common chronic conditions are potentially unnecessary, leading to $8.3 billion in additional costs for the industry, according...

By Robert Holly | Home Health Care News | February 6, 2019 One of the largest home care and community health organizations in the country has landed additional financial support to continue building out its home-based primary care and palliative medicine offerings. Holmdel, New...

Tim Jennings, President of Custom Case Group, a manufacturer of casings for the biotech industry among others, explains why the trend towards in-home healthcare is set to benefit the plastics industry. A hundred years ago, most doctor visits took place in the patient’s home. But by the 1940s,...