Home-Based Care Providers Scramble To Find The ‘Right’ Health Plan, Health System Partners

Home-based care providers hungry for value-based care arrangements have recently been disillusioned by the process of trying to find those arrangements. While they’ve been told value-based care is the way to go, they often end up finding that health systems and payers aren’t as willing to meet them in the middle. Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) […]

[UPDATED] Court Orders VitalCaring to Share 43% of Profits With Encompass Health, Enhabit

A federal judge in Delaware has ordered home health and hospice provider VitalCaring and its private equity backers to share future profits with Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) and Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB). The court ordered that 43% of VitalCaring’s future profits be placed in trust to benefit Encompass and Enhabit. The remaining 57% would go […]

Enhabit To Shutter Handful Of Home Health Locations, ‘Close’ To New Deal With UnitedHealthcare

Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) has a new CFO and a somewhat new strategy. It still faces a lot of the same problems. On Thursday, CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer said the company would be closing or consolidating certain locations that are underperforming, specifically when it comes to traditional Medicare business in home health care. While its payer […]

‘Congress Must Intervene’: Home Health Leaders React To Third Consecutive Year Of Payment Cuts

Last week, the wait for the CY 2025 home health final payment rule finally came to end. On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a rule that included a 0.5% increase to 2025 home health payments, updates to the Conditions of Participation, as well as changes to Low-Utilization Payment Adjustments […]

How Enhabit, Bayada Win Home Health Value-Based Care Arrangements

As more home health providers participate in value-based care arrangements, leaders are learning what works, and what falls flat. Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) has been active in the value-based care space. The company has a small – but growing – number of value-based contracts on the Medicare Advantage (MA) side, as well as Accountable Care […]

Enhabit CEO Explains The Decision To Walk Away From UnitedHealthcare

Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) revealed last month that it had submitted a termination notice to UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) UnitedHealthcare. Now, members of Enhabit’s leadership team are divulging more details about how the company, ultimately, came to this strategic decision.  “It’s important to remember that the reason we created are payer innovation strategy, about two […]

Home-Based Care Giants Gamble On ‘Bold’ M&A, Revamped Payer Strategies

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 […]

What Comes Next After Enhabit’s UnitedHealthcare Contract Termination

Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer said Wednesday that the company would terminate its contract with the country’s largest Medicare Advantage (MA) payer, UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE UNH) UnitedHealthcare. UnitedHealthcare accounts for 9.4 million MA beneficiaries, or 29% of all enrollees, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), which is the second-largest […]

Enhabit Walks Away From UnitedHealthcare After ‘9 Months Of Unsuccessful Negotiations’

Staying on course with its payer innovation strategy, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) has decided to walk away from certain Medicare Advantage (MA) payers – and namely UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) UnitedHealthcare. That decision, and the recent home health proposed payment rule, were top of mind for Enhabit leaders on Tuesday. Specifically, Enhabit President and CEO […]