Home health providers have delved into different service lines during COVID-19. Among those are high-acuity care, such as hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home programs, palliative care and respite care. But one set of services, in particular, is beginning to make more sense for home health providers to offer: behavioral health. Strategically, expanding into behavioral health makes sense […]
Prior to Home Health Care News’ FUTURE event at The Times Center last week, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton took the same stage to film a new television show. Rumor has it that they were shocked and honored when they heard some of the biggest names in home-based care – the future of health care […]
Until the final home health payment rule comes down from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), M&A is expected to stay relatively quiet. However, some experts believe that if cuts are avoided through legislation or other means, M&A should see a massive boon. “If we’re successful as an industry and it’s pushed off […]
This article is sponsored by The Braff Group. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Dexter Braff, President, The Braff Group, to learn about today’s market for mergers and acquisitions in the home-based care environment. Dexter also shares his outlook for the near term for M&A, as well as insight for […]
At the very beginning of this year, I wrote an HHCN+ Report on the home health public market and how it sets the pace for the rest of the industry. At the time, the public companies were all doing well, though things have certainly changed since then. Among my takeaways, I wrote about how larger […]
With the uncertainty surrounding the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new proposed payment rule, buyers and sellers in the home health industry will be proceeding with caution. Home health insiders told Home Health Care News that while the proposed rule is sure to create some pause in overall activity, it shouldn’t be […]
After multiple years of record-breaking M&A activity, home health consolidators are now starting to show an increased interest in organic growth. While the approach to growing a home health business through building existing infrastructure may take longer, the environment in 2022 is more friendly to organic growth than it was during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We […]
While the appetite for home health and home care dealmaking remains strong, other health care subsectors are catching up. Coming off a record-breaking 2021 for M&A activity, the home-based sector saw a slightly down Q1 in 2022. However, experts have told Home Health Care News that M&A players are taking their time with deals, and […]
Staffing is almost ubiquitously considered the toughest challenge in both home health and home care. A parallel issue that is often considered far less, however, is turnover among executives at the companies that make up the space. It’s not completely clear whether the trend came to fruition due to COVID-19 itself, or whether it was […]
In terms of business, providers are slowly beginning to move away from the strict distinctions of home health, home care and hospice. “These are separate businesses,” Dexter Braff, president of The Braff Group, said on Wednesday during a panel discussion at the 18th annual Healthcare Private Equity & Finance Conference. “These are only separate because […]
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