Home health advocates to battle CMS over proposed continuation of PDGM-related rate cut
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jun 30, 2021
The leader of a home healthcare coalition said her organization will push back aggressively after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service on Monday proposed keeping a 4.3% cut related to the Patient-Driven...
Addus powers through the pandemic, but challenges remain
By
Diane Eastabrook
Aug 04, 2021
Addus HomeCare executives admitted Tuesday the COVID-19 delta variant is challenging the home care industry as it tries to emerge from the 17-month global pandemic.
Home care wheelers and dealers, start your engines!
By
Liza Berger
Apr 23, 2021
The lackluster days of M&A activity in home care appear to be a distant memory.
VNA to sell home health, hospice operations to Amedisys
By
Liza Berger
May 11, 2021
Citing the need for for outside investors to sustain its business, Visiting Nurse Association (VNA), a 125-year-old nonprofit that serves the Omaha, NE, and Council Bluffs, IA, communities today disclosed...
Mandate overreach? Rhode Island offers cautionary tale
By
Liza Berger
Sep 03, 2021
It seems to me that we could use a standardized healthcare policy regarding mandates right about now.
Two home care companies, two strategies in fight for caregivers
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 19, 2021
Home care and home healthcare providers are emerging from the long war against the COVID-19 virus, only to be confronted with a different battle: the one for talent.
Brookdale Senior Living sells remaining interest in home health, hospice, therapy business, sees $27...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 27, 2023
Brookdale Senior Living has sold the remaining 20% equity interest it held in its Health Care Services unconsolidated venture and received aggregate proceeds of approximately $27 million in the process,...
UnitedHealth Group posts $1.2B loss related to Change Healthcare cyberattacks
By
Adam Healy
Apr 19, 2024
As Change Healthcare reels from ongoing cybersecurity breaches, UnitedHealth Group executives reassured stakeholders.
Home healthcare coalition calls on CMS to scrap PDGM behavioral adjustment
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 03, 2021
A coalition of home healthcare leaders called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Thursday to rescind the 4.36% behavioral assumption cut next year as part of the Patient-Driven Groupings...
Another advocate for home care emerges
By
Liza Berger
Mar 05, 2021
If home care is looking for some more muscle in Washington, it received some help on Wednesday.