Home Health Care News Perspective: The caregiver shortage is undoubtedly happening, and providers routinely name recruiting qualified caregivers their No. 1 challenge. While low wages are negatively impacting the much-needed boost of new health care workers, it’s not the only influence plaguing this home care industry issue. By Judith Graham, originally for Kaiser Health News Acute […]
Home Health Care News Perspective: Whether it’s through pre-hospice, pre-acute, or pre-hab services, there’s a rich opportunity for home care providers to get upstream in the health care continuum. Investors in the sector may already be onto this idea. By Anna Gorman, originally for Kaiser Health News Gerald Chinchar isn’t quite at the end of life, but the […]
The numbers don’t lie. After more than 10 years serving in the New York Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, including as the Acting Inspector General, I can attest firsthand to the unfortunate instances of fraud, waste and abuse that occur with too much regularity in home health care and home care. Between 2011 and […]
In a recent California case, a court ruled that home health workers hired to care for Alzheimer’s patients may not sue them or their families for injuries caused by those patients. But the ruling also raises new questions about where liability lies for in-home caregivers. The following guest column for Home Health Care news is […]