Use these condensed trend reports and insights to quickly see the state of the post-acute industry. Feel free to to share this page, check back for quarterly updates, and use the charts in your own presentations.
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Home Health
Year-over-year home health FFS admissions decreased from 762.0K to 733.6K (- 3.73%) between 2022 Q4 and 2023 Q4.
Hospice
Year-over-year hospice FFS admissions increased slightly from 401.1K to 416.8K (+3.91%) between 2023 Q1 and 2024 Q1.
Skilled Nursing
Year-over-year skilled nursing FFS admissions decreased significantly by 14.62%, from 470.0K in 2023 Q1 to 401.3K in 2024 Q1.
Home Health
The percentage of inpatient stays instructed to seek home health services minimally declined between the rolling four quarters ending in 2023 Q1 (22.9%) and the rolling four quarters ending in 2024 Q1 (22.5%).
Hospice
The percentage of inpatient stays instructed to seek hospice services stayed the same between the rolling four quarters ending in 2023 Q1 (4.0%) and the rolling four quarters ending in 2024 Q1 (4.0%).
Skilled Nursing
The percentage of inpatient stays instructed to seek skilled nursing care stayed the same between the rolling four quarters ending in 2023 Q1 (20.3%) and the rolling four quarters ending in 2024 Q1 (20.3%).
*Note about FFS admissions data:
FFS home health, hospice, and skilled nursing admissions are based on claims initially released by CMS to their virtual research data center and accessible by Trella Health. As such, the true number of admissions could be higher when claims that were filed after the initial release are factored in. Trella Health uses the initially released data for earlier quarters to provide a more accurate directional trend analysis for the latest available data.
**Note about Medicare Advantage enrollment data:
As of December 2023, we’ve refined our Medicare Advantage enrollment data sources from using the “Original Medicare Beneficiaries” and “Medicare Advantage and Other Health Plan Beneficiaries” to using the “Original Medicare Part A and Part B Beneficiaries” and “Medicare Advantage and Other Health Plan Part A and Part B Beneficiaries”. This adjustment aligns the Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare enrollment definitions to be more similar.
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