Slashed Medicare rates are the most significant headwind pummeling home health providers in 2025. This two-fisted conundrum includes both actual Medicare fee-for-service rate cuts as well as the historically lower rates favored by Medicare Advantage plans. As MA becomes more prevalent in health care, those lower rates contribute to revenue attrition that threaten long-term sustainability. […]
Questions always abound when a new presidential administration comes in, but Republicans’ focus on cost-cutting hold potential for home-based care — if providers can advocate for themselves in Washington. Though uncertainties abound when it comes to the Trump administration’s approach to health care, many notable policies have been implemented during Republican administrations. From the establishment […]
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2026 plans to raise payments to Medicare Advantage plans by 4.3% in 2026. CMS has issued an advance notice of policy changes for Medicare Advantage and Part D that would install technical updates, including to the ways the agency calculates payments to health plans. “CMS […]
The private equity firm Renovus Capital Partners has acquired the home health and hospice provider Superior Health Holdings, Inc. Financial terms were undisclosed. Renovus Capital Partners is a lower middle-market investment firm based in Philadelphia. The firm’s portfolio includes more than $2 billion of assets, about 30 companies, across its several industries, including technology, health […]
A federal judge in Delaware has ordered home health and hospice provider VitalCaring and its private equity backers to share future profits with Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) and Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB). The court ordered that 43% of VitalCaring’s future profits be placed in trust to benefit Encompass and Enhabit. The remaining 57% would go […]
Silverstone Health began as a small hospice provider. Now, it has expanded its services to cover home health care, palliative care and personal care, and has grown its daily census from 17 patients to 2,000. After CEO Alfonso Montiel purchased and rebranded Comfort Care Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region in 2020, the company began […]
With interest in scaled home health assets climbing among strategic buyers, few, if any, large home health companies are likely to stay independent, according to Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) CEO Paul Kusserow. Kusserow made these remarks at a dinner hosted by Jefferies Financial Group, according to Brian Tanquilut, equity analyst for the investment banking firm. “As […]
Home health providers aren’t the only ones trying to push complex care further into the home. As hospices seek new ways to engage patients further upstream, a rising number are diversifying their services to include home-based primary care, along with palliative care and other models. Evidence indicates that these primary care programs carry substantial benefits […]