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Why Veteran-Centered Home Care Reduces Institutional Reliance
Veterans represent a growing share of patients needing ongoing care, including chronic condition management, post-hospital recovery and long-term support. With about 15.7...
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Managing Chronic Conditions at Home: The Role of Infusion Therapy in Crohn’s Disease Care
Crohn’s disease is hard to manage and expensive when care is not consistent. Patients can move quickly from stability to severe flare. When that happens, many need emergency care or a...
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Home IV Antibiotic Therapy: A Cost-Effective Alternative to Inpatient Care
Patients receiving IV antibiotics at home have similar safety and quality metrics comparable to those of patients receiving inpatient care, with no meaningful differences in mortality...
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Closing Gaps in Care: How In-Home Nursing Improves Workers’ Comp Claim Continuity
In 2024, workplace injuries cost U.S. employers $54.9 billion in lost productivity, $36.8 billion in medical expenses, $64.5 billion in administrative expenses and 69...
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Leveraging Hospital-at-Home to Manage Seasonal Capacity Surges
Seasonal surges challenge hospitals every year, as patient volumes, capacity demands and care needs shift with changing illnesses and environmental factors. As respiratory illnesses...
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Extending Specialty Infusion Care Beyond the Hospital: How Strategic Partnerships Improve Outcomes at Home
Longer lives and more chronic conditions are driving a growing need for complex infusion care outside hospital walls. At the same time, payors are seeking value...
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When Is Hydration Therapy Appropriate at Home? Clinical Use Cases for Payors and Providers
As consumer IV wellness drips grow in popularity, many payors and healthcare organizations are facing a new challenge: separating medically necessary hydration therapy from convenience-based...
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Readmission Risk Is Highest in Summer. Here's How In-Home Infusion Helps
Hospital readmissions cost the U.S. healthcare system billions each year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servies (CMS) reports that nearly 1 in 5 Medicare patients return to the...
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Nurse with patient in the hospitalBlog
Value-Based Care in Commercial Insurance: A Home Care Advantage
Hospital readmissions cost the U.S. healthcare system more than $50 billion annually, with Medicare bearing a substantial portion of these costs. For commercial...
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Reducing Total Cost of Care with Home-Based Infusion Programs: What the Data Shows
In hospital outpatient settings, infusion therapy usually costs more than in other care settings. A large study of more than 52,000 infusions found that hospital outpatient departments had...