There are a variety of technical changes and nuances home health providers need to be aware of before the new Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) goes into effect in 2020. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released details of its home health payment reform plan in its July 2 proposed rule. In its initial […]
TPG Capital portfolio company Mediware Information Systems, Inc. announced last week that it’s acquiring the long-standing home health and hospice consulting group Fazzi Associates. To some degree, the transaction—which marks one of the few instances where a software business buys up a consulting firm—is reflective of the broader home health, personal care and hospice landscape. […]
Software company Mediware has acquired Fazzi Associates, a firm that provides consulting and other services to the home care and hospice industry. Mediware is a portfolio company of TPG Capital, a private equity giant that also owns a stake in the nation’s largest home health and hospice provider. Northampton, Massachusetts-based Fazzi serves more than 1,400 […]
About 5% of U.S. home health agencies earned a 5-star rating for quality of patient care in the latest update to the Home Health Compare website, which occurred on April 11. That’s an uptick from 4% as of January 2018. The percentage of 4.5-star agencies also increased in that time period, from 10% to 12%, […]
Home health care agencies are showing some improvements in quality, according to the latest update from Home Health Compare. Home Health Compare, which is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), enables consumers to compare home health care agencies and view their star ratings, which are based on a national survey from […]
Happy Monday, Home Health Care News readers. It’s the start of a new week and, believe it or not, we’re just days away from the start of a new month! But before we close the books on October, here is our weekly roundup of our must-read news. This Week in Review At the top of […]
Well Care Home Health Appoints Kipple to New Senior Leadership Role Wilmington, North Carolina-based Well Care Home Health has appointed Robin Kipple, RN, BSN as its new senior director of population health and clinical integration. Well Care Home Health provides home care and nursing and rehabilitation services to residents throughout the state. In her new […]
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Since the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) announced last month it was creating a new parent organization, its leaders have elaborated further on the new group’s lofty, and laudable, goals. However, the organization also is currently absent of a clear strategy, leaving its place among other, existing associations up in the air. With a […]
Fewer home health care clinicians are proficient in OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) data compared to a year ago, according to recent test results from Fazzi Associates, a Northampton, Massachusetts-based home care and hospice consulting, training, outsourcing, benchmarking and research firm. More than 5,000 clinicians from 366 agencies in 40 states took this year’s test, the National Oasis Testing Project, […]