There’s been an anxious buzz in the home health care industry of late. Big moves are happening. Whether those big moves are good for the industry, though, is yet to be determined. Many in the industry are still grappling with that question themselves. As I talked to home health providers and insiders this week during […]
Home-based care insiders are looking on as outsiders come in and sweep up top assets within their industry. There’s the payers, like UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Humana (NYSE: HUM), that are doing so. Then there’s the retailers, such as CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) Amazon (Nasdaq: […]
Option Care Health (Nasdaq: OPCH) announced its plans to acquire Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) at the beginning of May. In early June, competition arrived, as UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum put in its own bid to acquire Amedisys. For Option Care Health, the deal was its way to create an end-to-end health care continuum in […]
Just before the beginning of an investor presentation on Wednesday afternoon, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer joked to the moderator at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference that the company may soon be the last pure home health player on the public market. Kindred at Home – now CenterWell Home Health – is a part […]
Larry Nabb wants to usher Jet Health into a new era. He’s already getting started, too, after being named CEO at the end of May. Jet Health is a Fort Worth, Texas-based post-acute care company that delivers home health, hospice and personal care services in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Idaho. The company is backed […]
Getting to the negotiating table with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and coming away with a good deal is tough enough for even the biggest players in home health care. For smaller providers, it’s an even more daunting and intimidating task. However, there are steps those smaller providers can take in order to become more attractive […]
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) has cemented its position as a home-based care powerhouse. The company has largely accomplished this through buying and building CenterWell Home Health, along with a number of other efforts in the home, including strategic partnerships. Now, Humana is focused on accelerating value-based care and integrating all of its services that fall […]
Another one of the largest home health companies is likely to lose its independence soon. And the potential combination of Option Care Health (Nasdaq: OPCH) and Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) – announced in early May – is fascinating, especially if you read and write about home-based health care every day. It’s time to question, though, what […]
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) leaders see home-based care as a longer-term opportunity that has the potential for continued expansion. They also view it as complementary to many of their other long-term goals, but namely the further pursuit of value-based care models. They expressed these sentiments during a presentation at the BofA Securities Healthcare Conference on […]
As Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration continues, home health agencies are coming to grips with the additional — and sometimes hidden — costs that are associated with transitioning to a payer mix more dominated by MA. Whether those costs come from operational changes or otherwise, the financial impact of MA’s market penetration can’t be ignored. “To […]
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