In their response to the COVID-19 crisis, home care providers have been forced to make more changes to their daily practices in the last two months than they could’ve imagined at the beginning of 2020. Indeed, the last several weeks have been a whirlwind, leaving little time to pause and consider all that has happened, […]
BrightStar Care is one of the largest in-home care franchises in the country. While having a big footprint is a goal of most companies, during the COVID-19 crisis, it raises the stakes of every move that is or isn’t made. Based in Chicago, BrightStar Care offers medical-level in-home care, non-medical home care and medical-staffing services […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Wednesday that over $40 billion in additional funding would be provided to reimburse health care providers during the COVID-19 crisis. A chunk of that money will go to further support home health agencies. To distribute the $40 billion, HHS plans to allocate $20 billion for […]
Physician leaders from Louisville, Kentucky-based Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) and the National Quality Forum have published a joint article in the New England Journal of Medicine examining the role social, behavioral and environmental factors play in overall health — and why those aspects should be incorporated into future payment models. Published Wednesday, the piece is […]
Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the Medicare Advantage (MA) landscape looked like a promising business opportunity for in-home care providers. That was, in part, thanks to two major expansions of MA supplemental benefits in 2018 and 2019. But the U.S. is now more than a month removed from a coronavirus public health […]
One of the nation’s largest providers of infusion therapy is shifting its attention to the COVID-19 virus and further migrating key health care services into the home. Illinois-based Option Care Health — which specializes in home and alternate infusion services — is partnering with health systems across the U.S. to transfer patients out of the […]
CVS Health is partnering with UCLA Health to provide more care in the home, in turn easing the burden of the COVID-19 crisis on hospitals. While the initiative underlines the importance of home-based care, especially in times of crisis, it also creates potential partnership opportunities for home health agencies down the line. Coram — a […]
Mary O’Donoghue took somewhat of a winding road to get to where she is now, the founder and managing director of an expanding home care agency. And she took that path to the home care industry, despite only being 33 years old. The unique stops along O’Donoghue’s professional path — training as a certified nursing […]
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) held a virtual press conference on Wednesday to make a series of demands on behalf of home care workers. The press conference also allowed a few workers to directly share their personal hardships during the public health crisis. As of April 9, over 9,000 health care workers had contracted […]
To better prevent hospital overcrowding and risk of exposure to the coronavirus, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBSOK) is partnering with DispatchHealth to deploy medical mobile units that can deliver in-home care to thousands of the insurer’s members. Denver-based DispatchHealth is a medical in-home care provider that works to reduce unnecessary emergency room […]
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