Today’s tumultuous legislative environment, including the proposed rule for 2026 home health care and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), is challenging home-based care providers’ financial bottom lines. However, most home health care leaders see hope on the horizon and predict a positive outlook for 2025 – with some strategic adjustments. A common theme […]
On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its proposal for the 2026 home health payment rule. Providers and industry advocates quickly spoke out to warn of the risks associated with “the largest cut ever proposed.” Home health stakeholders called the proposed cuts “devastating” and “a matter of life and death.” […]
For the last few weeks, we’ve been busy covering the earnings calls of at-home care companies, which have revealed some key trends that providers are facing as they head into Q2. Specifically, Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS), Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB), The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG), BrightSpring Health Services (Nasdaq: BTSG), Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. […]
Leaders with Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) are closely watching the potential changes to the Medicaid program being discussed by the new administration and Congress. Addus CEO Dirk Allison pointed out a wide variety of potential areas that have been identified to reduce federal spending on Medicaid, including per capita caps lowering of the FMAP […]
The spotlight on personal home care has gotten brighter in recent years, and that will continue in 2025. The population will continue to age, while payment models, regulatory policy and technological innovation will continue to enable more people to receive care in their preferred setting – their own home. But despite these tailwinds, the path […]
One of the publicity issues home-based care faces is that most people don’t even understand the difference between home health care and home care, much to the chagrin of industry veterans in both sectors. But in the future, those same leaders are bullish on the merging of those two types of care. Home care and […]
Addus Homecare Corp. (Nasdaq: ADUS) leaders believe that, no matter who won the recent presidential election, their company would have been set up well for the future. With that said, the Medicaid Access Rule may now be going away due to Donald Trump’s win, as well as the 80-20 provision. “We really didn’t care so […]
It’s the interest rate, stupid. Home health, home care and hospice industry voices – including myself – have regularly pointed toward internal factors affecting M&A over the last two and a half years. In the end, the overarching, main headwind was always the extremely high interest rates that were put forth by the Federal Reserve […]
There are certain headwinds affecting all home-based care providers right now, whether it be in payment, staffing or otherwise. Amid those challenges, the largest companies are all taking slightly different approaches to growth. Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB), for instance, grabbed the attention of home health providers everywhere last week when it announced that it had […]
On Tuesday, Addus HomeCare Corp. (Nasdaq: ADUS) leaders explained the reasoning behind the pending acquisition of Gentiva’s personal care assets. They also suggested more acquisitions could be on the way. The main reasons behind a more aggressive acquisition strategy are the Medicaid Access Rule and value-based care opportunities, according to Addus CEO Dirk Allison. “We […]
