Vice President Kamala Harris proposed a Medicare home care benefit earlier this month. Some found the proposal innovative and exciting, others found it unrealistic and potentially costly. Many in between found it well intentioned, but wanted to hear further details. But more broadly, Harris’ proposal evoked an interesting conversation, at least in my mind. Who […]
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With the “sandwich generation” top of mind, Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris unveiled plans for a new Medicare home-based care proposal earlier this month. The proposal would include non-medical home care services under the Medicare umbrella, aiding seniors in need of activities of daily living support. The policy – if enacted – would […]
The demand for personal home care services does not have a cap on it, and there will be more seniors than ever in the U.S. over the coming decade. But that doesn’t mean it’s an easy service to deliver right now. In 2024, providers need to find business models that actually make sense – from […]
Home care CEOs are constantly seeking new business opportunities and exploring areas for growth. For some leaders, this even means gravitating toward opportunities they feel have largely gone untapped. John Sneath, CEO of Tribute Home Care, sees attaining market share as the biggest business opportunity for his company. “At Tribute, before we’ve thought too much […]
Melissa Blankenship has joined Arosa as its chief operating officer. In her new role, Blankenship will be focused on the company’s operations, as well as driving efficiency and growth. Arosa is one of the largest non-franchised home care companies in the country, with 36 locations in 11 states. Prior to joining Arosa, Blankenship was president […]
Thanks to impactful, large-scale transactions over the last decade, the collective face of home-based care has changed forever. Traditional providers in both home health care and personal home care have merged. Payers became involved in the home-based care space like never before. Of late, retailers have too. But it’s often easy to forget how the […]
Workforce pressures are a constant variable in home-based care. But today’s issues require far different solutions than yesterday’s, providers believe. For Accurate Home Care, the biggest pain point isn’t retention, it’s recruiting new nurses to hire. “If I had 200 nurses show up in my parking lot, I would hire them all without interviewing them,” […]
Home care companies have always had to deal with a gray market in senior care, or an “underground” caregiver workforce. But as the cost of providing care continues to rise, providers may find themselves in more of a bind than before. Broadly, caregivers that are part of the underground workforce are individuals who are unaffiliated […]
Now that the public health emergency (PHE) has ended, one segment of the senior care space that had a particularly difficult time throughout the pandemic could make a serious comeback. That is adult day services. “Adult day definitely struggled during the pandemic in a lot of ways that other care models didn’t,” Brendan Flinn, a […]
The cost of out-of-pocket home care services in the U.S. has steadily risen. As a reaction to that, some providers are proactively relying less on their private-pay revenue streams. While costs have gone up, so has revenue. Private-pay home care providers generally bill two times more than what they pay caregivers, meaning they can hand […]