Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) may be nearing a spinoff — not a sale — of its home health and hospice segment. That avenue looks increasingly likely in light of the company’s recent leadership announcements, industry insiders believe. Last week, Barb Jacobsmeyer was named the new CEO of Encompass Health’s home health and hospice segment, […]
Category: Home Health Care
The private equity firm Coltala Holdings has acquired a stake in Choice Health at Home, a growing home-based care provider based in Texas. Financial details were not disclosed. The capital and other resources from Coltala will help Choice become a larger home health player across the South. Additional aspects of the deal reflect larger trends […]
“Choose Home,” major legislation designed to help more people age in place, is gaining momentum on Capitol Hill. There’s even a chance a Choose Home bill is introduced before Congress’s July 4 recess. That’s according to National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President Bill Dombi. If introduced and eventually enacted, Choose Home would […]
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Monday proposed plans to expand the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model nationwide by the start of next year. The agency did so in its proposed payment rule for 2022. In addition to the HHVBP expansion, CMS proposed to increase Medicare payments to home health […]
AccentCare announced Monday that it has purchased Southeastern Health Care at Home from private equity firm Geneva Glen Capital. Southeastern Health Care at Home is the largest privately-owned home health services provider in Pennsylvania. In addition to home health care, the company delivers hospice and mobile primary care services, plus palliative and wound care services. […]
Continuity of care — or pairing the same medical professionals with the same patients — is incredibly important in the delivery of home health services. It’s even more essential when caring for people living with dementia, a new study suggests. If home health patients with dementia are seen by the same clinicians visit after visit, […]
The explosion of hospital-at-home programs in the U.S. is partly thanks to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “Acute Hospital Care at Home” waiver, which will last as long as the public health emergency (PHE) is active. And it’s not shocking that health systems, hospitals and home-based care agencies helping to facilitate hospital-level […]
Home-based care technology company AlayaCare announced Wednesday that it has raised the equivalent to about $185 million U.S. in a Series D round. The new funding brings AlayaCare’s total raised to $206 million U.S. Founded in 2014, the Montreal-based AlayaCare is a software platform and secure cloud-based system that includes clinical documentation, client-and-family portals, remote […]
Health care dealmaking is on a blistering pace in 2021, with particular action around the home health and hospice spaces. And while transactions are being driven by private equity firms with plenty of dry powder, they’re also propelled by regulatory shifts, emerging care models and the transformation of the sector, a new mid-year dealmaking report […]
A year and a half into the Patient-Driven Grouping Model (PDGM), home health agencies’ feelings on the overhaul still vary. And even if PDGM hasn’t been the “boogeyman” that was expected, it still needs tinkering from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), some insiders believe. “I think the data clearly shows that […]
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