Come meet the faces behind Home Health Care News at the 2015 National Association for Home Care & Hospice Meeting and Expo in Nashville! Members of the editorial and advertising teams will be at the Gaylord Opryland for the event, October 28-30, and would love to connect with readers, newsmakers, and anyone driving the industry […]
One of the nation’s largest home health providers, LHC Group (Nasdaq: LHCG), bucked overall market trends and saw its stock rise in September, according to the most recent Home Health Index from mergers and acquisition firm Stoneridge Partners. It was the second month in a row that LHC Group led its peers in share price […]
This week, readers caught up on the latest update in the home care worker wage drama and explored what the tech startup boom might mean for the industry down the road. Readers also learned how partnerships can help stem hospital visits and delved into ACOs’ trouble in integrating home health data. Here in the newsroom, […]
Home health care agencies are staring down the prospect of a $350 million Medicare payment cut in 2016, so they could be forgiven for seeing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as an enemy. But it’s not quite so simple, according to Tracey Moorhead, CEO and president of the Visiting Nurse Associations of […]
A lawsuit alleging that home care aides weren’t appropriately paid for 24-hour service can move forward, and a union contract doesn’t require that complaints outlined in the case be brought before an arbitrator, a New York judge ruled this week. The class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of several thousand workers employed through the Chinese-American […]
A high-tech apartment unit makes it possible to receive a physical exam without ever leaving home, NPR’s Morning Edition reported Monday. Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are experimenting with a live-in laboratory with health tracking technology built into furniture, appliances and floors to provide real-time information that can prevent falls in seniors […]
Free introductory visits offered by one home health care provider don’t violate the anti-kickback statute or the civil monetary penalties law, according to an advisory opinion recently issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG). The opinion comes following a ruling on home health referrals earlier this year in which […]
Editor’s note: Home Health Care News will be observing the Labor Day holiday Monday, September 7, but we will return to our normal posting schedule Tuesday, September 8. In the meantime, all of us here at HHCN would like to wish our readers a safe and enjoyable Labor Day weekend! In case you missed them, […]
After posting strong earnings in the second quarter of 2015 and announcing its intentions to grow, LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) has followed through on its word, acquiring Halcyon Hospice LLC for $58.4 million in cash. The deal enables LHC to save $7 million in net present value taxes over the next 15 years, resulting […]
Home health care company BrightStar Care has joined the fight against Seattle’s newly enacted minimum wage law, which it says is discriminatory. Franchise owners have taken a stand against the city’s law, which they say places an unfair timeline on franchise companies—which unaffiliated small businesses do not have to comply with—to raise the minimum wage […]
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