Top Home Care Trends For 2025

The spotlight on personal home care has gotten brighter in recent years, and that will continue in 2025. The population will continue to age, while payment models, regulatory policy and technological innovation will continue to enable more people to receive care in their preferred setting – their own home. But despite these tailwinds, the path […]

Top Home Health Trends For 2025

The year ahead will be a fascinating one in home health care. As 2025 dawns, the industry faces many uncertainties, and the next 12 months will be pivotal in shaping the future. Regulatory decisions will have an outsized impact on home health providers in the near-term, and their effects could stretch well into the future. […]

Inside the Future Of Contessa Health And High-Acuity Care at Home 

When Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) acquired Contessa Health for $250 million in 2021, it changed the home-based care landscape. While other companies had been toying with high-acuity care in the home, that deal sent a clear message: Home-based care was becoming more than just Medicare-certified home health care and personal care services. Since that point, […]

HouseWorks Launches Its ‘Payor HUB’ To Drive Home Care Quality, Transparency With Health Plans

The home care provider HouseWorks has launched its “Payor HUB” to enhance its relationship with payers and to improve outcomes. HouseWorks is one of the largest non-franchised home care providers in the country. It believes it can blaze a trail with the Payor HUB, which is the next iteration of its “proprietary HouseWorks technology platform.” […]

Home-Based Care Providers Scramble To Find The ‘Right’ Health Plan, Health System Partners

Home-based care providers hungry for value-based care arrangements have recently been disillusioned by the process of trying to find those arrangements. While they’ve been told value-based care is the way to go, they often end up finding that health systems and payers aren’t as willing to meet them in the middle. Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) […]

Optum, LHC Group Put Pedal Down On Home-Based Care Efforts

LHC Group President and CEO Josh Proffitt on Wednesday shared a home-based, value-based vision for the company’s future. UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum acquired LHC Group last year for $5.4 billion.  “Home Care remains deeply fragmented, disconnected and too difficult to navigate,” Proffitt said Wednesday. “It accounts for about $150 billion of the health sector […]