Compassus Leans Into Embedded Health System Partnerships To Power Home Health Strategy

Home health and hospice provider Compassus is evaluating a broad array of growth opportunities, including de novo expansion, acquisitions and joint ventures. The company has expanded rapidly through acquisitions and will continue to do so, according to Chris Core, Compassus’ senior vice president and chief growth officer. Its joint venture strategy emphasizes integrated care coordination […]

Confronting Higher Acuity And The Intake Clock In Home-Based Care

As the center of health care has increasingly moved into the home, home-based care services have become more complex. Home-based care providers shared the ways that their strategies, challenges and opportunities are evolving amid this growing complexity at HHCN’s FUTURE conference in Austin. In an HHCN+ Update I wrote at the event, I shared a […]

35 Home-Based Care Companies Earn A Spot On Inc. 5000 List

As the U.S. healthcare landscape shifts into the home, home-based care providers are emerging as some of the nation’s most dramatic growth stories. Evidence of this momentum is found on the Inc. 5000 2026 ranking, which featured 35 home-based care organizations as among the fastest-growing private companies in the country. CareChoice, Complete Care Management Services, […]

AI, Fraud And New Leadership: The Shifts Reshaping Home-Based Care

The home-based care industry is shifting fast, with major leadership changes, new technologies changing the operational game and a significantly different regulatory landscape, including a federal-level fraud crackdown.  Those are big, sometimes abstract forces. But what matters most is how provider leaders show up in an organization’s day-to-day operations: the referral documents someone has to […]

‘Sorely Needed’: Home Health Leaders Weigh Relief, Lingering Risks In Proposed Payment Rule

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed home health payment rule for CY2027 is a mixed bag for providers and industry insiders, offering a long-awaited raise alongside the sting of unresolved retroactive cuts. Experts told Home Health Care News that while the proposed aggregate payment increase of 2.4% could suggest that CMS’ home […]

How Compassus Is Transforming Home Health Intake With AI

In home health, a single patient referral can arrive buried in dozens of pages, spread across fax machines, emails and disconnected platforms. Compassus is addressing the intake challenge with an AI platform that reduces intake time from roughly an hour to under 10 minutes – and allows the company to capture more referrals. The Tennessee-based […]

Inside Compassus’ 2-Pronged Plan To Expand Providence Joint Venture

The joint venture between Compassus and not-for-profit health system Providence is set to expand through two key growth tactics. The organizations are seeking to expand the joint venture’s census of patients coming from the Providence ecosystem while extending its community-based referral sources, Nick Gordon, senior vice president of strategic execution at Compassus, told Home Health […]