The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) moratorium on new Medicare home health enrollments, implemented to combat fraud, has created an unintended and severe reality for hospitals, payers, and patients. As traditional home health agencies freeze expansion plans, underserved and rural communities are facing acute provider shortages.
The message is clear: healthcare systems can no longer rely solely on traditional home health licensing to meet patient needs. They need flexible, scalable care delivery models that can deploy immediately.
Acadian Health is uniquely positioned to fill this gap today. Through Community Paramedicine and Mobile Integrated Healthcare (CP/MIH), Acadian Health leverages highly trained paramedics, registered nurses, and integrated virtual care teams to deliver advanced in-home clinical services. We don’t just bridge the gap; we optimize the entire care continuum at a fraction of the cost of traditional post-acute pathways.
Where Acadian Health delivers measurable results
Because our model builds upon an established, robust EMS and healthcare infrastructure, Acadian Health can deploy far faster than traditional home health agencies. We are already driving proven outcomes in:
- Hospital-at-Home programs and high-risk monitoring
- Post-discharge follow-ups and readmission reductions
- Chronic disease management and medication compliance
- Emergency department avoidance and EMS diversion
- Rural access expansion and palliative care navigation
Strategic advantages for our partners
For hospitals and health systems, we offer solutions like accelerated discharge, reducing the length-of-stay pressures and improving bed throughput. This aids greatly in capacity management while boosting quality metrics and patient satisfaction. Our approach offers immediate rural reach, allowing for expansion without the burden of building new brick-and-mortar facilities.
For payers and value-based organizations, Acadian Health’s care model offers a lower total cost of care, drastically reducing avoidable emergency department utilization and readmissions. Enhanced network adequacy ensures secure and reliable care delivery in previously underserved or frozen markets. We are flexibly deployable, meaning we are able to seamlessly align in-home clinical interventions while allowing more value-based reimbursement strategies.
A Complementary, Fraud-Resistant Expansion of Care
Acadian Health’s CP/MIH model is not a replacement for home health. What we offer is a complementary, highly adaptive, and compliant extension of the care continuum. Additionally, in our work directly with payers, health systems, and ACOs, Acadian Health remains transparent in communication, invoicing, and data sharing.
The demand for high-quality, in-home care is not slowing down despite regulatory freezes. Partner with Acadian Health to meet your patients where they are.
