In-home care providers, state Medicaid programs and their tech-vendor partners will very likely have at least one more year to gear up for the federally mandated nationwide rollout of electronic visit verification (EVV). That is, depending on what President Donald Trump decides to do. The U.S. House of Representatives last month signed off on H.R. […]
Home health merger and acquisition activity continued at a healthy clip in the second quarter of 2018, with 21 publicly announced deals. That’s up from 12 acquisitions in Q2 2017, according to newly released data from market intelligence firm Irving Levin & Associates. On a quarterly basis, deal volume dipped slightly; there were 23 publicly […]
Register now for a complimentary webinar on Tuesday, July 24th at 1 p.m. Central Time: “Beyond the QAPI Basics—Tips to Improve Your Hospice Care.” Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement (QAPI) can be something that actually makes a difference in your agency and be more than a required compliance activity to get you through your survey. Hospice Quality Reporting […]
Kindly Care—a startup that helps clients find, hire and manage at-home caregivers—has raised $5.4 million in a Series A round and is planning to expand to the East Coast for the first time. The company has also backed away, for the moment, from sharing workers with home care agencies through a platform dubbed Care Exchange. […]
Millions of individuals in the United States depend on home health services to help manage chronic conditions and recover after surgeries or unexpected illnesses. Home health utilization is increasingly, too, partly because services are typically provided in the lowest-cost setting. Home health may be cheaper, but it’s also, perhaps, more dangerous. There are numerous risks […]
Proposed policy changes related to how home health agencies bill for therapy shouldn’t cause the industry to cut staff or abruptly back away from those services, experts say. Under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 2, home health providers would no longer be able […]
The home health, personal care and hospice industries are—again—in the midst of rapid and profound change. Courtesy of NAHCThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is rekindling its Pre-Claim Review Demonstration (PCRD) efforts, while proposing a new payment system known as the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). Meanwhile, the hospice space is seeing explosive growth, […]
Register now for a complimentary webinar on Tuesday, July 24th at 1 PM Central Time: “Beyond the QAPI Basics—Tips to Improve Your Hospice Care.” Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement (QAPI) can be something that actually makes a difference in your agency and be more than a required compliance activity to get you through your survey. Hospice Quality […]
Earlier this year, a three-way merger created one of the largest home health providers in the United States, and the combined company now is rebranding as “Elara Caring.” The merger, which closed in May, unites Jackson, Michigan-based Great Lakes Caring; Cromwell, Connecticut-based National Home Health Care; and Addison, Texas-based Jordan Health Services. Backed by private equity […]
Insurance giant Humana (NYSE: HUM) now officially owns a stake in the nation’s largest home health and hospice provider, and investors appear to be excited by this development. Humana’s share price hit its highest-ever peak last Thursday, trading at $319.44, according to Yahoo Finance data. The Louisville-based company’s moves into the home health and hospice […]
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