Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

HouseWorks announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Greater Boston Home Health Care Inc. Founded in 1992 by Edward McGonagle, Greater Boston Home Care provides personal care services. “I Boston-based HouseWorks is one of the nation’s largest independent home care companies.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Bill Frist and Brad Smith – the former director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) – started the company. Elevance Health also recently acquired Paragon Healthcare , a home-focused infusion provider. Eden Health acquires A Plus Hospice Care Eden Health of Northern Nevada has acquired A Plus Hospice Care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 6, 2024

The main reasons behind a more aggressive acquisition strategy are the Medicaid Access Rule and value-based care opportunities, according to Addus CEO Dirk Allison. “We The Frisco, Texas-based Addus provides home care, home health and hospice services to approximately 49,500 consumers through 214 locations across 22 states.

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Home Health Care

JULY 28, 2023

The Sunrise, Florida-based company – a part of Caring Brands International, which Sheets also was the CEO of – also provides personal care, hospice care, palliative care, pediatric care and staffing services. locations, it cares for about 200,000 individuals per year. Through its over 330 U.S.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 7, 2024

But the failure of hospice’s fit within VBID points to larger problems that exist somewhere between home-based care providers and MA plans. Along the way, hospice care and other tangential services were supposed to become a larger part of the program. Home health providers will be the first ones to tell you so.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave health systems and providers the ability to take hospital at home as a concept and run with it during the public health emergency (PHE). The Boston-based Biofourmis is a tech-enabled at-home care enabler. The startup recently reached unicorn status.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decides to do with its home health final payment rule , industry experts believe providers need to drastically improve their cost reporting data. At the same time, Markette believes CMS is too far removed from the actual day-to-day realities of home health and hospice care.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2023

These are just a few of the home health referral trends that are reflective of the current landscape. Those trends are especially noteworthy amid looming payment rate cuts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). They are also causing home health providers to redefine operational best practices.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. If you could change one thing with an eye toward the future of home health or home care, what would it be?

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

“We really believe that that’s going to be the way that you succeed financially,” Ponder-Stansel told Home Health Care News. The Jacksonville, Florida-based Alivia Care provides home health care, hospice care, personal care, palliative care, advanced care planning and other services across Northern Florida and Southern Georgia.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the first notable accomplishments of this council included developing and launching the Texas Health and Human Services system supportive palliative care and hospice care websites, which include resources for patients, families , and professionals. Oregon leveraged its Patient-Centered Primary Care Home Program (PCPCH).

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Home Health Care

JUNE 7, 2022

That’s especially true for health plans and health systems following the introduction of the COVID-related Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in November 2020. They’re one of the leading providers of home care services.

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NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

There are a number of strategies state health officials can use as they build sustainable access to palliative care services in their Medicaid programs. Target Populations That Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services Use data to identify Medicaid enrollees with serious illness.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Home Health Care News: Why don’t we all just talk about what your organization does and what you do for them? Ashley Puchalski: I’m with Ohio’s Hospice. We service about 60 of the 88 counties in Ohio, providing hospice care throughout the state. You’re looking at your margin profiles.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 11, 2022

Based in Atlanta, Aveanna delivers home health, private-duty services and hospice care to a broad range of patients in 30 states. Though it is now heavily invested in the senior home health space, it began as one of the nation’s largest at-home pediatric care providers.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership When National Association for Home Care & Hospice President Bill Dombi left a home health care-focused hearing in Washington D.C., That’s because, after a long two years for home health providers and advocates, things were finally starting to look up.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

For the first time, anyone can now review detailed information on the ownership of more than 6,000 hospices and 11,000 home health agencies certified to participate in the Medicare program on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website.

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