Home Health Actuarial Articles

The home health industry is increasingly dividing into two groups.One group still operates primarily on instinct and reactive decision-making. The other is building highly analytical operating systems around staffing, reimbursement, patient acuity, and...

Insurance costs are becoming a major pressure point for home health agencies.Workers compensation, professional liability, auto liability, and stop-loss costs have all increased materially over the last several years.Most agencies approach insurance reactively....

A surprising number of home health agencies are clinically strong, growing rapidly, and still quietly struggling financially.The issue usually is not one giant problem. It is the accumulation of dozens of operational inefficiencies that slowly compress margins.That is...