‘We’re Payer Selective’: How Home Health Providers Are Navigating the Payer Evolution

Posted April 5, 2023

“We are payer agnostic, but we’re payer selective,” Traditions Health CEO David Klementz said Thursday at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event in Washington, D.C.

Traditions Health is a Nashville-based home health provider and one of the fastest-growing companies in the space. Traditions provides home health, hospice and palliative care services in 18 states.  “From my perspective, it’s two-fold,” he said. “On the Medicare side, is the data they’re looking at correct, and what methodology are we using? There needs to be a collaborative discussion on that because it’s not effective with our current cost structure. The methodology, some might argue, is flawed. On managed care: There needs to be recognition that Medicare is subsidizing managed Medicare. There needs to be recognition when you don’t consider that in your economics, you’re not really looking at the profitability.”

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