A pilot program that aims to expand in-home primary care for chronically ill patients continues to achieve care improvements and reduce Medicare costs. The Independence at Home demonstration saved Medicare more than $10 million this year. On average, there was $1,010 per beneficiary saved this year among 15 practices and 10,000 Medicare beneficiaries, according to […]
Definitive Agreement Made for Amedisys to Acquire Professional Profiles, Inc. Amedisys announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Professional Profiles Inc., a personal care company, headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts. The $4.4 million transaction is expected to close on September 1, 2016. Professional Profiles, Inc., has 384 employees and provides non-medical services that range […]
Kindred Completes Acquisition of Arkansas Department of Health Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: KND) has completed the previously announced agreement to acquire the in-home health care operations from the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) for approximately $39 million. Kindred reached an agreement with ADH after a large amount of skepticism from some Arkansans following a state bidding process. […]
The woman who once ran home health care company, Doctor at Home, located in Schaumburg, Illinois, has been sentenced to 72 months in prison for performing a $15.6 million Medicare overbilling scheme. Diana Jocelyn Gumila of Streamwood, Illinois, used patients as “her own personal cash register,” wrote U.S. District Judge Charles P. Kocoras. In April, an Illinois […]
Based in part on the lower costs for home health care, a list of the top 10 best cities for seniors was compiled, and Oklahoma City came in at number one. Oklahoma City has average home health care costs of $46,057 per year, according to SeniorAdvice’s SeniorScore, which is the first comprehensive data-driven scoring system […]
Home care workers in Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit against four Medicaid providers after alleging rampant violations of city wage and hour laws. The workers hope the lawsuit will end the violation of D.C.’s worker protections and recover back pay owed to them. These are not new issues— in the last two years, home care workers in […]
Royal Philips Acquires Wellcentive Royal Philips has announced its acquisition of the US-based provider of population health management software solutions, Wellcentive. The acquisition will expand Philips’ population health management business. Once the deal is signed, Wellcentive and its employees will become part of the population health management business group within Philips, which will be led […]
US CareNet Announces Launch of NavCare Division National senior care services provider US CareNet announced the launch of their NavCare care management division. The new division provides chronic care and transitional care management, population health management and care coordination services for primary care providers as well as other health care providers throughout the country. “Chronic […]
New legislation was introduced yesterday that may change the way the most recent overtime rule is phased in. When the rule was proposed in May the threshold for employees who are exempt from overtime pay changed from $23,660 to $47,476. Salaried employees under that new threshold will be entitled to overtime wages. It was originally announced […]
Owner of People Choice Home Care Inc., Paul Mil, 67, of Springfield, N.J. was sentenced to 54 months in prison after pleading guilty in Newark federal court to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, money laundering and tax evasion, according to the Department of Justice. In total, Mil, along with others, defrauded Medicaid out of […]
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