Home Health Benefit Will Become A ‘Skeleton’ If Medicare Payment Adjustments Continue, Industry Leader Cautions

As the breadth and depth of home health care continues to grow, providers are exposed to an abundance of opportunities. To get a crack at that upside, however, providers will need to overcome and adapt to a litany of challenges. Those that don’t could contribute to the consolidation that the home health industry is already […]

‘You Can Complain About It, Or Lean In’: Top Home Health Leaders Brace For 2024

With the start of a new year, home health leaders are looking ahead and identifying their top priorities. Some of these areas of focus will directly address last year’s challenges, and some are proactive measures that will place them ahead. At Bayada Home Health Care, these priorities include focusing on the employee experience, as well […]

Transactions: Elevance Health To Acquire Paragon Healthcare; New Day Healthcare Buys Compassion Hospice

Elevance Health to acquire infusion provider Paragon Healthcare Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV) announced that it has plans to acquire the infusions services company Paragon Healthcare. The acquisition opens up the opportunity for Elevance members to receive more in-home care. “The acquisition of Paragon Healthcare will deepen our capabilities around providing affordable, convenient access to specialty […]

AccentCare Names Chief Financial Officer; Aveanna Promotes New Chief Revenue Officer

AccentCare appoints Saurabh Gupta as its CFO AccentCare has named Saurabh Gupta as its new chief financial officer. The appointment is effective Jan. 8, 2024. Prior to this appointment, Gupta was CFO at Envision Medical Group. Before that, he served as senior vice president for financial planning and analysis at Steward Health Care, one of […]

Certain HHVBP Measures Remain Disconnected From On-The-Ground Home Health Care Delivery

The Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model is one of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) only cost-saving successes, which is why it was expanded nationwide on Jan. 1, 2023. Just six of 49 CMMI payment demonstrations have produced savings, with HHVBP standing out in a major way. HHVBP is expected to save […]

‘We Need To Go Where The Patients Are’: How Home Health Agencies Are Adjusting To Medicare Advantage

Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment has been on a steady climb over the last two decades. As such, home health agencies have started to adjust operations to better fit the payer landscape in the future. Agencies in states like Michigan, Hawaii and Alabama have already had to do that — and those transitions haven’t been seamless. […]

BrightSpring Health Services Files To Go Public For The Second Time

BrightSpring Health Services officially filed plans for an initial public offering Tuesday. The home- and community-based services provider first planned to go public in 2021, but ultimately decided against it. Now, those plans are full speed ahead yet again. “With over 40 years of experience caring for ‘must-serve’ client and patient populations, we deliver care […]