Two Texans are prison-bound for their roles in a scheme to defraud the state’s Medicaid program through false home health reimbursement claims, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday. Debra Jean Velasquez and Sylvia Salinas Ramirez both pleaded guilty in early September to conspiring to submit false and […]
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New York-based long-term care provider CenterLight Health System is now providing skilled healthcare services at home with the launch of a new, proprietary home health agency. CenterLight Certified Home Health Agency will provide short-term care to individuals who need skilled healthcare services within their homes as they recover from an illness or procedure following a […]
More than half of the approximately 8.4 million Americans who receive paid long-term care were using home health services, according to a first-of-its-kind report on senior care services and users. The nation’s 12,200 home health agencies served about 4.7 million patients in 2011, the latest year when data was available, says the National Study of […]
Addus Home Care (NASDAQ: ADUS) is ramping up its position in the home-based services market through the closing of an acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Coordinated Home Health Care, formerly owned by Transition Capital Partners. The acquisition includes 15 New Mexico-based offices and grows the company’s presence in the state, a goal […]
The Affordable Care Act appears to be having an impact on lowering the number of costly hospital readmissions, as reforms under the law have helped drive down the 30-day readmission rate by as much as 18% in 2013, according to data released this week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). During the […]
Although home health care represents one of the nation’s fastest-growing industries, a recent study suggests consolidation might lie ahead as agencies wrestle with maintaining profitability under increasing regulatory pressures. In the past five years, an aging U.S. population, the prevalence of chronic disease and a movement toward cost-efficient treatment options from private and public payers […]
Minnesota’s Department of Human Services recently announced it will receive $58 million in federal money that will help the state’s seniors and disabled individuals remain in community settings if they’d rather not move into a nursing home. The federal funding is targeted at providing home care services that could save the state money in the […]
Despite its poverty-level pay scale, home care aide is one of the fastest growing jobs in the U.S. right now, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. The nearly 1 million personal care aides counted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2012 generally provide assistance with activities of daily living for the elderly and disabled, allowing them to […]
A Florida home health company has shuttered its doors, leaving more than 100 employees jobless due to paperwork mistakes associated with past Medicaid claims. A+ Home Aid, a home health agency with offices in Titusville and Altamonte, called its 150 workers Friday, November 8, to notify them the company would be shutting down and that […]
A trio of Virginia home care providers have been indicted for their roles in fraudulently obtaining $1.3 million of Medicaid payments, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Wednesday. W. Wayne Perry, Jr. and Angela Perry were each indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of health care fraud, 24 counts of false statements […]
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