As with the rest of healthcare, home care is plagued by business models that are driven by reimbursement rates rather than the value they offer patients. No matter how hard-working or well-intentioned home care executives and their staffs are, they have been limited in their ability to deliver real value to patients, payers, and referral sources as a result of the structural flaws of the current reimbursement system.
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