Who Cares

About Who Cares

Coming Home is the podcast dedicated to informing, inspiring, and empowering the care at home community. Hosted by the National Alliance for Care at Home, we bring expert insights, meaningful conversations, and advocacy for person-centered healthcare to the forefront. As the leading authority in home-based care, we invite dialogue and spark transformative discussions that shape the future of care across America. From hospice and home health to personal and palliative care, we explore the challenges, innovations, and human stories driving this essential industry. Care at home will impact us all. Let’s shape the future together.

Publisher

National Alliance for Care at Home

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 May 2025

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Care at Home Costs $64 a Day [vs $3,800 in the ICU]

   Care at home is one of the most cost-effective ways to care for patients, and right now it's under pressure from every direction. A nationwide Medicare enrollment moratorium, a new home health payment rule, and rising labor costs are landing hardest on the nurses and therapists who drive to patients' doors. In this episode, Alliance CEO Jennifer Sheets sits down with Cam Lynch, Chief Government Affairs and Policy Officer at Compassus, which serves about 180,000 patients a year across 33 states, to talk through what's really happening on the ground. Cam explains why Compassus fully supports rooting out fraud, and why enforcement needs a scalpel, not a sledgehammer. He walks through the ownership-change loophole fraudsters use to get clean Medicare numbers, how the moratorium stalled legitimate acquisitions with patients caught in the middle, and what the proposed 2027 Home Health Rule gets right (and where it still falls short). Jennifer and Cam also dig into the fraud-skewed data behind Medicare rate-setting, the Medicare Home Health Payment Integrity and Protection Act, and why one unified voice from the field matters more than ever on Capitol Hill. What you'll take away: Why Compassus backs the fraud crackdown, and where enforcement can overreach and harm patients How fraudsters use change of ownership (CHOW) to buy clean Medicare numbers, and why looking below the claim matters What's good in the proposed 2027 Home Health Rule, the first proposal in five years without a cut, and why the 3% temporary adjustment still hangs over the benefit How fraud-skewed data distorts Medicare payment rates, and what that means for the workforce Why a unified industry voice carries more weight with Hill staffers than any single provider What Cam would tell CMS Administrator Dr. Oz in five minutes about care happening in the home Fighting fraud and protecting access aren't competing goals. Done right, they reinforce each other, and that only happens when the field speaks with one voice. Follow Coming Home: The Alliance Podcast on Social Media: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ComingHome_Pod (https://www.youtube.com/@ComingHome_Pod) Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ZWViigMk2jqMPxBsUVSwu (https://open.spotify.com/show/6ZWViigMk2jqMPxBsUVSwu) Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/a-fresh-start-for-coming-home/id1806187184?i=1000780434837 (https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/a-fresh-start-for-coming-home/id1806187184?i=1000780434837)

2. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Fraud Is Local. The Freeze Is Nationwide.

   Program integrity has become the defining fight in care at home, and one decision is landing hardest right now: a six-month, nationwide CMS moratorium on new home health and hospice enrollment. In this episode, Alliance CEO Jennifer Sheets sits down with Patrick Harrison from the Alliance's policy and advocacy team to unpack why a blunt national freeze is the wrong tool for a fraud problem that's concentrated in specific markets and specific bad actors. They draw the line between real fraud and honest mistakes, explain how fraudulent claims quietly corrupt the data CMS uses to set everyone's rates, and walk through what the Alliance is actually telling CMS: targeted, risk-based enforcement that roots out bad actors without penalizing the compliant providers patients depend on. If you've ever felt punished for someone else's bad behavior, this one's a roadmap for pushing back, as a united industry. What you'll learn Why a nationwide enrollment freeze misses a fraud problem that's concentrated in specific geographies The real difference between fraud, waste, abuse, and a simple technical error How fraudulent claims corrupt the data CMS uses to set rates for legitimate providers ("bad data in, bad data out") What "risk-based," scalpel-not-sledgehammer enforcement looks like, including gold carding The Alliance's message to CMS on the moratorium, and why a unified provider voice matters more than ever

3. 

   26 Aug 2026

   The Win-Win Nobody in Healthcare Talks About

   Care at home has a new leader, and this relaunch episode introduces her. Alliance CEO Jennifer Sheets started at the bedside as an ICU nurse and after years of success across the healthcare continuum and care at home, she now runs the National Alliance for Care at Home at one of the most pivotal moments the sector has ever faced. In this conversation, outgoing host Elyssa hands off the show in a candid and wide-ranging conversation with Jennifer about who she is, what she tackled in her first 90 days, and the strategic plan that will define the next era of home health, home care, hospice, Medicaid HCBS, and palliative care.We get into the personal story behind Jennifer’s 'why,' the inflection point care at home is standing in right now, and the new Alliance framework of four pillars and Centers of Excellence. Then, we widen out from strategy to movement: how a diverse membership stays united, and what every member can do to help.WHAT YOU'LL LEARN How Jennifer went from ICU nurse to national CEO, and why she said yes now What she tackled on day one and where her focus is today The four-pillar Strategic Plan and what Centers of Excellence actually mean How care at home shifts from an industry into a movement The one action every member should take after listening Keywords: care at home, home health, hospice, palliative care, Medicaid HCBS, Jennifer Sheets, National Alliance for Care at Home, home care advocacy, care at home CEO

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

311,486

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

55

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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