Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) released its annual “Impact Report” Wednesday, highlighting how it believes it’s making health care “more equitable and accessible for each person.” Its current and future home-based care initiatives were highlighted throughout, lending further insight into the breadth of the company’s resources and goals. “Expanding access to healthcare: Humana integrated CenterWell home […]
The national home care franchise BrightStar Care has once again expanded its corporate-owned footprint, this time with the acquisition of eight locations in Wisconsin. Based in Chicago, BrightStar Care has been significantly growing its corporate-owned footprint lately. With the most recent acquisition of BrightStar franchise locations, the company now fully owns close to 10% of […]
AccentCare – one of the largest providers of home health and hospice in the country – has formed a new joint venture with Memorial Hermann Health System. The partnership will “greatly expand access to care in the home throughout the greater Houston area,” according to a Monday press release. Specifically, the JV will combine the […]
When Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) participated in the connectRN’s $76 million funding round at the end of 2021, it was because it believed in what the company was doing. But, more broadly, it was a reaction to the contemporary staffing situation in home health care. The connectRN platform was originally built to find nurses and […]
During the last week of March, hundreds of stakeholders vied on behalf of home-based care in Washington, D.C., either physically or through Zoom. Personal home care provider and advocate voices did so with an excitement for the future, fresh off the high of the president mentioning multiple times in a month. Conversely, home health care’s […]
AccentCare has a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative. Behind it is a belief that home-based care providers should be as transparent as possible with current and future caregivers about the makeup of the company’s workforce. “When you share your workforce data transparently, you’re owning where you’re at in the space — not only […]
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) has been building out its health care delivery arm – which includes home-based care capabilities – for some time now, just like its retailer competitors. There’s good reason for that. Pairing primary care and home-based care capabilities is a way to drive value-based care moving forward. But, in Walgreens’ […]
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced that it will complete its $8 billion acquisition of Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) this week. “CVS Health today announced it expects to complete its acquisition of Signify Health on or around March 29, 2023, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the remaining customary closing conditions set forth in the […]
Home-based care is arguably getting more attention from the U.S. president now than it ever has before. So much so, in fact, that home health providers and advocates may start looking at President Biden himself as an ally in their fight against payment rate cuts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Biden’s […]
Home care providers have complained about Medicare Advantage (MA) becoming a more mainstream payer source. Still, many have begun to work with MA plans for the first time over the past few years. But now, there’s concern that the government’s crackdown on MA could restrict opportunities even further, particularly when it comes to supplemental benefits. […]
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