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Untapped Potential of Home Health Care Innovations to Improve Outcomes With Bundled Payment Initiatives

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Home Health Care Management & Practice

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Abstract

A rapidly changing health care payment system creates opportunities for optimizing home health and home-based care for patients needing cardiac rehabilitation (CR). Home health agencies are poised to play a significant role in episode payment models in the context of post–acute care for patients with cardiovascular conditions. As the Medicare program expands its episode payment models to include patients with cardiovascular conditions, hospitals and other health care stakeholders that will be engaged in these bundled payment arrangements should consider use of home health care in the delivery of CR as a bridge to outpatient therapy and patient self-management.