Honor Expands Its Executive Leadership Team; New Executive Director Joins MedPAC

Honor make four new additions to its leadership team Four new executives recently joined Honor’s leadership team. The new additions to the team include: Linn Free, who was named senior vice president of operations; Stefan Haney, who was named senior vice president of growth technology; Mark Privett, who was named vice president of design; and […]

Help at Home Appoints Chief Human Resources Officer; InnovAge Lands New CMO

Help at Home Help adds chief human resources officer The Chicago-based personal home care company Help at Home has named Lisa George as its new chief human resources officer. George has previously served in human resources leadership roles at Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH), Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Campbell’s Soup (NYSE: CPB). Most recently, she was […]

EVV Likely to Trigger More Home Care Consolidation

The electronic visit verification (EVV) implementation process has been ongoing for a few years now. While some providers have been compliant with EVV for some time, others are just beginning to become so as their states have made “good faith” efforts to roll it out. Like any regulations that home-based care agencies have been subjected […]

Transactions: LHC Group Expands Footprint; Senior Helpers Acquires New Corporate Store

LHC Group purchases Virginia providers The LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) M&A run continues. The Lafayette, Louisiana-based company recently announced agreements to acquire Generations Home Health along with Freda H. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care, both in Virginia Beach, Virginia. LHC Group expects $7 million in annual revenue from the deals. Plus, the purchases complement […]

Current Health Joins Moving Health Home Coalition; FirstLight Partners with Dina

Current Health joins Moving Health Home Boston-based Current Health, a company that offers a remote care management platform to help health care providers conduct home-based care, has joined the Moving Health Home (MHH) coalition. MHH was created in March to influence lawmakers and advocate for legislation favorable to all sorts of home-based care. Its member […]

Use of Self-Directed Home Care Services Jumped 20% in 2020

Self-directed home care services are on the rise. Last year, many states created even more Medicaid flexibilities to allow seniors to essentially hire their own family members as their caregivers, which was especially helpful amid stay-at-home orders and fears surrounding COVID-19. On their end, states see this strategy as a win-win. Patients can be cared […]

Home Health Industry ‘Getting Closer’ to Reimbursement for Telehealth Visits

Despite significant roadblocks, the home health industry is getting closer to securing direct reimbursement for visits delivered via telehealth technology, industry insiders believe. Over the past two few months, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the White House have taken numerous steps to ramp up the use of telehealth services during the […]

Movers & Shakers: Sodexo’s New CEO

Sodexo Appoints New CEO  Sodexo, a quality of life services provider with more than 100 services, has named its current CEO of benefits and rewards services and personal and home services, and group chief digital officer, Denis Machuel, to succeed Michael Landel as CEO and chairman of the executive committee, effective January 2018. Landel announced his […]

Why Seniors are Hesitant to Embrace Home Care

Home care should be an attractive solution for seniors who want to age in place—but, all too often, that’s not the case. In fact, although the vast majority of Americans would prefer to age in their own homes, fears of abuse, fraud and a lack of support during emergencies are holding people back from embracing […]

Making Sense of New CURES Act Regulations for Home Health

Before the end of his second term as President of the United States, Barack Obama signed the 21st Century CURES Act into law, bringing forth a wealth of new regulations that will impact the home health industry. While the law made headlines for its wide support on Capitol Hill and focus on tackling the most […]