Several state Medicaid programs are unprepared to pay home health workers overtime, minimum wage or traveling expenses under new regulations—though some states, like Kansas, have been more vocal about the issue than others. A U.S. Department of Labor rule that extends overtime and minimum wage protections to about 2 million home health workers took effect Oct. 13. This […]
Legislation that enables more older adults to remain at home instead of moving into a nursing home has passed in Congress. The law expands the Medicare Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) to allow providers to develop pilot programs to serve more people who are at risk of needing a nursing home and […]
This week, HHCN readers wanted to know more about where hospice care end-of-life services are heading, as well as the latest challenges to the Department’s of Labor’s rule to extend minimum wage and overtime benefits to home health workers. Here in the newsroom, we were interested in a Wall Street Journal article that showed the […]
Home health providers may soon see the fate of a controversial rule impacting wages decided by the highest court in the country. In an 11th-hour move, home health associations have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in before federal minimum wage and overtime rules go into effect for home health workers. Last week, in […]
While home health care agencies have been focused on how regulations could impact worker wages nationwide, a lawsuit in Colorado has moved the ball on the issue in the Rocky Mountain State. Under Colorado law, home health care workers must be paid overtime, a federal judge ruled. In Kennett v. Bayada Home Health Care, Judge […]
Four U.S. Senators asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to withdraw proposed case mix cuts and value-based purchasing penalties in a letter dated Sept. 24. The letter echoed a similar letter to Andy Slavitt, acting administrator of the CMS, written by 133 members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 18. CMS released the […]
Last week, a franchisee of home health care company BrightStar Care was in court fighting a “discriminatory” law over a provision of Seattle’s new minimum wage law, which would increase the city’s rate to $15 per hour. The law classifies franchise businesses in the same category as businesses with more than 500 employees and requires them […]
Two motions have been filed in the case over the extension of minimum wage and overtime protections to nearly 2 million home care workers, one seeking to expedite implementation and the other aiming to delay the rule going into effect. The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and two other associations filed a […]
In case you missed it, here are the top headlines grabbing readers’ attention this week, plus some other notable stories from around the web that caught our eye here at HHCN: Spotlight On: White House Conference on Aging A lot was said about home care during the White House Conference on Aging on Monday, with […]
In an action that’s been deemed the “largest criminal health care fraud takedown” in the Department of Justice’s history, 243 individuals — including home health care providers — have been charged for their participation in schemes involving approximately $712 million in false billings. The defendants are charged with various health care fraud-related crimes, including conspiracy […]
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