HCCI in the News

MedCentral (3/21/24) — The changing face of primary care medicine is making some physicians re-examine their roles in the world of healthcare. One appealing option is home health care, which is increasingly popular with patients and payers ― as well as physicians looking for greater professional rewards. A...

CAPA Magazine (12/23) — Dr. Paul Chiang, the Home Centered Care Institute’s (HCCI) Senior Medical and Practice Advisor, and Medical Director of Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians in suburban Chicago, finds a team mentality to be essential when it comes to house calls. “I tell my patients, ‘I am only...

Healthcare Innovation (12/6/23) — The CMS Innovation Center’s Independence at Home demonstration has worked with medical practices to test the effectiveness of delivering comprehensive primary care services to chronically ill patients at home. With that demonstration project coming to an end on Dec. 31, a panel of experts at...

Palliative Care News (10/23/23) — Programs that integrate both palliative care and home-based primary care are proving effective at improving patients’ quality of life and reducing health care costs. Combining and coordinating those two forms of care can also allow a palliative care provider to access patients sooner as well...

Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show with Michael Stamatinos (9/28/23) — In an episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Julie Sacks, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI), discusses the evolution of house calls and why the future of healthcare is in the home.

McKnights Home Care (7/18/23) — One of the federal government’s top healthcare priorities is moving from a care delivery model that pays based on volume, or the number of services provided (fee-for-service), to one that pays according to health outcomes (value-based). As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

JD Supra’s Healthcare Authority Newsletter (7/13/23) — Aggregator website JD Supra featured the recent Hospice News article “Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care” in its latest Healthcare Authority Newsletter. Read the newsletter.

Hospice News (7/10/23) — As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Offering those services can help hospice and palliative care providers engage patients further upstream, as well as offer a more comprehensive suite of services to meet their needs, according to...

Repertoire (5/23) — Clinics were built to optimize the productivity of clinicians in a fee-for-service healthcare world, says Patina CEO Jack Stoddard in a recent article in Forbes. But the model doesn’t always hold up, particularly for people who are unable to go to a doctor’s office due to age...

McKnights Home Care  (5/17/23) — The Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI), a national nonprofit that aims to educate primary care physicians about in-home care, has launched a platform to help doctors target patients in need of their services. “We needed to understand how many home care providers there really...