Transactions: Legacy Care Partners Acquires Superior Home Health; SSM Health Bolsters Health at Home Arm

Legacy Care Partners Acquires Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice of Texas Legacy Care Partners – which also owns Advanced Home Care – has acquired Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice of Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We extend a warm welcome to Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice into the Legacy […]

Louisville Health Care CEOs Form Council for Aging

On the heels of opening the doors to the industry’s first-ever technology innovation hub, in Louisville, Kentucky, leaders from some of the biggest home health care companies are teaming up with other executives from across the health care space in the city to revolutionize the city’s health care economy by establishing the Louisville Healthcare CEO Council, […]

Home Health Agency Continues Legal Fight for Lost Profits

New Vision Home Heathcare, Inc., a home health care agency based in Southfield, Michigan, is taking on health insurance and managed care giant Anthem in a Medicare billing suit that seeks $20 million in lost profits. Anthem, the largest for-profit managed health care company in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, used its subsidiary, Medicare program […]

Former Medicare Chief Says Nonprofit Home Health Agencies Do it Better

When it comes to being a preferred provider for important patient referral sources, not-for-profit home health agencies may have a leg up on for-profits, according to a former top Medicare official. Jonathan Blum was second-in-command at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services between 2009 and 2014, when he served as the agency’s principal deputy […]

Health IT Co. Raising $1.75M for Physician In-Home Care Tool

A new service that loosely resembles personal transportation giant Uber is taking aim at the home health care market. Raleigh, North Carolina-based health IT company Paired Health, Inc. was selected for a pilot project with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina to develop a care transition model […]