Bruce Broussard, Who Helped Turn Humana Into Home-Based Care Powerhouse, To Step Down As CEO

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) – one of the largest insurers and home health providers in the country – announced a leadership transition Wednesday. Longtime CEO Bruce Broussard will step down, with Jim Rechtin stepping into his position in 2024. This was a “long-planned” CEO transition, according to Humana. Rechtin will join Humana on Jan. 8, […]

As The Payment Landscape Changes, Excelin Health Is Engaging Clinicians Differently

Home-based care providers are changing the way they do business. Three of the ways they’re doing so: diversifying payer mixes, adopting new technologies and engaging differently with clinicians around care plans. “Historically we’ve allowed a lot of autonomy to the basic caregiver in the field,” Excelin Health CEO Alicia Marr said during Home Health Care […]

How Home-Based Medical Care Is Utilized In Traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage

There are significant differences in home-based medical care utilization between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare beneficiaries. Specifically, having exactly one home-based medical care visit was 31 times as likely for MA beneficiaries, at 18.6%, compared to traditional Medicare beneficiaries at 0.6%. That’s likely, in part, due to incentives in the MA program to code […]

Lawmakers Back Home Health Providers, Condemn Payment Cuts In Symbolic Subcommittee Hearing

The Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Health Care held a hearing Tuesday regarding aging in place and access to home health care in the U.S.  While current struggles were highlighted throughout, the hearing was ultimately a symbolic win for home health providers across the country. Lawmakers came across as more educated on home health care […]