Encompass Health contemplating IPO, sale or merger of home health and hospice division
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 29, 2021
Encompass Health is examining all possibilities for its home health and hospice division, even a potential sale, said President and CEO Mark Tarr, who raised the possibility during an earnings call Wednesday.
Vaccine mandates affecting home health workers likely to spur more legal challenges
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 21, 2021
The federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate affecting home healthcare workers is likely to draw a number of legal challenges, especially when it comes to medical and religious exemptions.
Hospital-at-home company has big plans as study findings help to support HAH model
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 21, 2021
“Home is the biggest four-letter word in healthcare right now,” Raphael Rakowski, co-founder and executive chairman of technology-enabled service company Medically Home, told McKnight’s Home Care...
Home health advocates to battle CMS over proposed continuation of PDGM-related rate cut
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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...
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...
After slow start, M and A activity set to take off for home health: advisory report
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Diane Eastabrook
Apr 21, 2021
In the first quarter of this year, home healthcare, hospice and home care companies took a break from a buying binge.
Senator delays confirmation of CMS administrator over Biden’s refusal to extend Texas Medicaid waiver
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 22, 2021
Texas’s senior senator is holding up the confirmation of Chiquita-Brooks-LaSure as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) administrator over the Biden administration’s decision to rescind the state’s...
Strong Q4 revenues propel InnovAge for growth in 2022
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Diane Eastabrook
Sep 22, 2021
A nearly 7.5% increase in census helped InnovAge, a leading Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, turn in blockbuster fourth-quarter revenues.
Senate Finance Committee splits over CMS nominee
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 26, 2021
The Senate Finance Committee was divided along party lines late last week on the nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Vaccine mandate brings relief to home care agencies but raises questions
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 13, 2021
President Biden’s vaccine mandate for workers at healthcare agencies receiving Medicare and Medicaid was the kind of good news Louisiana home care agencies needed.