Soon, families in at least one U.S. state will be able to secretly monitor home health aides and other in-home caregivers using government-owned micro-surveillance cameras. The new “Safe Care Cam” program was announced Thursday by New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the state’s Division of Consumer Affairs. The goal of the program? To address New Jersey […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published on Friday new updates to two different hospice data sets—one on the thoughts of consumers, the other on hospice quality measures. The first data set—the Hospice Item Set (HIS)—includes the national averages for quality measure scores of Medicare-certified hospice agencies calculated from the HIS for July 1, […]
Staff turnover and wage-related issues have dogged the home care and hospice industries for quite some time. As home care and hospice agencies compete for qualified staff, registered nurses (RNs) looking for work may very well end up choosing the setting that pays the best—and in that sense, home care and hospice are not equals. […]
Three home health agency employees in Ohio have been sentenced to prison for their role in defrauding Medicaid out of $3 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The men—43-year-old George Epps, 51-year-old Abdulazis Warsame and 51-year-old Amir Ahmed—worked for Cleveland-based home health care agency Lifeline Home Health Services. Between 2009 and 2013, Epps, […]
A pilot program that incentivizes the delivery of home-based health care for chronically ill patients may be extended if newly introduced legislation passes. The Senate Finance Committee Chronic Care Working Group introduced the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2016 (S. 3504) on Dec. 6. The bipartisan legislation, among other […]
Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), the largest not-for-profit, home- and community-based health care organization in the country, may have used hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of federal disaster relief funds inappropriately, and planned to spend millions more inappropriately, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG). […]
Bayada Home Health Care, one of the top 10 largest home health companies in the United States, recently entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Chicago-based health care technology firm PreparedHealth. Together, the companies are aiming to keep home health clients out of the hospital and safely aging in their own homes. This goal is […]
The owners of a home health care agency in Columbus, Ohio, admitted last week to defrauding Medicaid and building a $932,000 house with the funds, The Columbus Dispatch reported. Muna Alnoubani, 49, and her 51-year-old husband, Riyad Altallaa, pleaded guilty on Dec. 1 in Columbus federal court to conspiring to defraud Medicaid. Altallaa also pleaded guilty […]
By all accounts, Silicon Valley loved home care in 2016. In fact, prominent, Silicon Valley-based venture capital (VC) firms have invested more than $200 million altogether in home care companies this year, according to Forbes. Home care software provider ClearCare received the most funding overall, having secured $60 million in a round led by Battery Ventures […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is introducing four new home health G-codes to replace two old ones—and this worries officials at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), who fear providers may not have adequate time to prepare for the changes. CMS recently issued Change Request 9736, which applies new […]
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