After seeing our March Madness college basketball brackets deploy before our eyes this week, we carried on to bring you the latest happenings in home health and home care. We let you in on Kindred Healthcare Inc.’s (NYSE: KND) plan to hold off on home health acquisitions and the latest from an ongoing lawsuit against […]
Brookdale Senior Living
Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to uphold a November 2015 decision rejecting a nurse’s False Claims Act lawsuit against the company for home health billing practices. The suit, brought by nurse Marjorie Prather, alleged that Brookdale engaged in fraudulent Medicare billing for home health services. The […]
Between two recently introduced ways of rating home health agencies, those looking for home health care might find conflicting results. Take Brookdale Senior Living, for example. Four of its home health agencies in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island earned a top score of five stars based on data they submitted related to quality of patient […]
Providers across the spectrum are tapping into the home health market to expand their services across multiple facets of care, as evidenced by LexisNexis’ 2015 rankings of the leading home health agencies in the United States. Released Wednesday, the LexisNexis 2015 Top 100 Home Health and Hospice Agencies Rankings is a report that ranks Medicare-certified home health providers by national […]
The raw data suggests that home health merger and acquisition activity has been largely consistent for nearly a decade, with deal volume holding relatively steady from year to year. But a closer analysis reveals that the M&A playing field looks different today than in the recent past, with senior living and long-term care providers being […]
The nation’s largest senior living provider, Brookdale Senior Living, is proving to be a force to be reckoned with in the home health care industry. Nine of the provider’s home health agencies have been ranked among the top 25% of agencies in the United States, according to the ninth annual HomeCare Elite list, compiled by National […]
Senior living providers who want to stay dominant in the conversation about caring for the aging population need to take advantage of technology platforms and products that aid aging in place rather than view them as unwelcome competition. Adding in-home service line extensions using innovative technology is a way to build brand loyalty and expand […]