When it comes to attracting new talent, the home health industry is between a rock and a hard place. Among 2017’s most-in demand jobs, “home health aide” has the highest growth outlook, according to a recent report from job search portal CareerCast. To complicate matters, however, the job also has the lowest average pay. Before […]
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For every new regulation, two must be cut. That’s one of the latest directives coming from President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order on Jan. 30 that aims to cut back on burdensome regulations for American businesses and reduce regulatory spending. With the new order, home health care organizations are eyeing a new “window […]
One of the biggest publicly traded home health care providers is expanding a pilot program targeting heart failure patients company-wide after finding initial success in a pilot program. The announcement comes at the start of American Heart Month. Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) is rolling out the Amedisys Heart Failure program company wide this month […]
The nation’s largest home health care provider is forging a “strategic clinical collaboration” with another major post-acute provider, through which they intend to offer complementary, coordinated services. The relationship between Genesis HealthCare (NYSE: GEN) and Kindred Healthcare (NYSE: KND) is the first of its kind in the post-acute space, Genesis CEO George V. Hager said in […]
With a new private equity partner on board, Senior Helpers is looking forward to a growth year in 2017. New programs and entry into new markets should give Timonium, Maryland-based Senior Helpers, one of the nation’s largest home care franchise companies, an even larger footprint and more sway across the health care continuum, co-founder and […]
The trend of home health agencies expanding their patient share to Medicare Advantage (MA) patients is on the rise, but overall, MA beneficiaries are using less home health compared with seniors on traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare. Home health utilization is a large source of Medicare costs, but, up until this point, it was unknown if Medicare […]
In a the long-standing fight over whether home care workers in Illinois will be able to receive overtime care, the governor has once again ruled against workers. Home care workers in Illinois will no longer be allowed to receive overtime pay, after Governor Bruce Rauner vetoed Senate Bill 261 on Friday, January 27. The bill would […]
The newly finalized home health conditions of participation (CoPs) will have wide implications for agencies, but not all the changes are new or likely to be costly. The CoPs, which were updated after nearly three decades in a final rule issued in early January, aim to improve the quality of health care services for home health patients and […]
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has added another fresh face to the C-Suite, hiring David Mikula to fill a new role for the company: chief development officer. Mikula formerly was an executive with the nation’s largest home health provider, Louisville-based Kindred Healthcare (NYSE: KND). Most recently, Mikula was senior vice president and COO for the Texas Region […]
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