Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Home care companies that shy away from offering live-in caregiver services are often trying to avoid the potential legal risk it may bring to their doorsteps. Under federal law, if the caregiver is at the home less than five days a week, providers should be paying them hourly, and it should be a minimum of 13 hours.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Because the home care industry is so large and fragmented, consensus is often hard to come by. The rule is likely to be finalized, Spinola previously told Home Health Care News. But Spinola believes that the non-compete ban can be avoided if the home care industry can collectively explain how it would be affected by it.

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Home Health Care

MAY 14, 2024

The rule increases a minimum salary threshold for millions of workers across the country, and could impact home health and home care providers. Once it begins, the rule could impact both home care and home health providers in a variety of ways. That is unacceptable.”

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 21, 2024

While certain leaders may have celebrated the FTC’s vote to ban non-competes across the country, home care providers were concerned over what the ban would mean for non-solicitation agreements. Broadly, non-solicitation agreements keep home care clients from cutting out the agency and hiring their assigned caregiver directly.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Provider leaders see home care union demands as unrealistic. Private-pay home care is the exception, where agencies can pass additional wage costs onto the consumer. Home care unionization efforts ticked up prior to the pandemic, but slowed once COVID-19 began to spread. At least for now. Yes,” he said.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership At some point in their lives, most Americans will need some type of in-home care support. The issue is that — due to the caregiver shortage, the rising cost of care, Medicaid qualifications and a number of other factors — many of them won’t be able to afford it.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I haven’t seen anything cool off with this market at all,” Angelo Spinola, home health, home care and hospice practice co-chair at law firm Polsinelli, said last week during the Home Health Care News FUTURE conference. “I’ve

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Home Health Care

MAY 22, 2022

In that scenario, Homethrive could additionally help family caregivers find professional services in their market, including home health and home care agencies. One of the most common things [we do] is we help people understand the differences between ‘skilled’ and ‘non-skilled’ home care, helping them access that,” Jacobs said.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Since its implementation in 2020, the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) has loomed large in the home health space. Now, PDGM is a driving force behind much of the transaction activity taking place in this space, according to Linda Murphy, COO and founder of Concierge Home Care. Let’s see what it looks like.’

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A service like home-based care that is in high demand — combined with a more informed workforce that is insisting on their rights — creates a dynamic that requires proactive steps from providers. “A The post Independent Contractor Changes And Other Legal Trends To Watch In Home-Based Care appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In order to consistently recruit caregivers to home-based care, providers and human resource departments need to better understand what workers want and what they are struggling with. The study evaluated more than 65,000 personal care workers across more than 90 data sources. “We Replacing the retiree workforce with U.S.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The bill also mandates that those facilities must guarantee salaried employees receive a monthly salary, which should be “at least 150% of the health care worker minimum wage or 200% of the relevant minimum wage,” whichever amount is higher. California already has the highest average salary for RNs in the country.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Specifically, from 2020 to 2022, the DOL’s wage and hour division identified violations in almost 89% of over 1,200 home care and nursing care investigations. Though the DOL has its eyes on providers operating across the U.S,

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 22, 2024

Home care agencies are actively reaching out to us to learn how we can help them care better and grow faster amidst caregiver shortages and rising costs,” Sensi.AI Co-Founder and CEO Romi Gubes told Home Health Care News. With AI comes the ability to learn, reason and solve problems.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Due to language barriers, Tiwari and Sapkota believed that there was a need for home health care services in the community, and were hoping to keep more Nepali-speaking people out of nursing homes by offering up these services. The agency was to be dubbed Grace Home Care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Trade groups, providers and individuals have always advocated on behalf of the home health and home care sectors. Not many fight for legislative and regulatory causes as much as the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). 1 priority remains the Choose Home Care Act of 2021.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Specifically, the DOL recovered more than $1 million in minimum and overtime wages owed to 859 home health workers employed by two Texas-based providers: Alegre Home Health Care LLC and Pas Home Care LLC. That rule could have significant ripple effects in home care and home health care.

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Home Health Care

MAY 25, 2023

“This is certainly one of the biggest provisions, and it’s safe to say, the most controversial provision,” Matt Wolfe, office managing shareholder at law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz P.C., said during a Home Care Association of America webinar on Thursday.

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Home Health Care

MAY 26, 2023

In some areas, it will be important for providers to increase their advocacy efforts, like when it comes to a potential ban on non-competes, Angelo Spinola, the chair of home care, home health and hospice at the law firm Polsinelli, told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The second phase, due diligence and execution, is typically when legal counsel gets involved, Donna Ruzicka, a shareholder at Polsinelli, noted during a webinar hosted by the law firm on Thursday. On the home care side, sellers that are operating under the franchise model need to make sure that they actually have permission to sell. “We

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2024

“The type of violence that I’m seeing increasing more than any other is where the violence is directed at an employee by a patient or client,” Will Vail, an employment attorney at Polsinelli Law Firm, told Home Health Care News. There are a lot of causes; mental health is certainly one. The problem is this,” she said.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2024

Chip Kahn, president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, captured the ban’s impact on health care in a statement released shortly after the FTC voted. His remarks focus on hospitals, but the sentiments could apply to the home health, home care and hospice markets as well.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 15, 2024

“It’s not just the vendors that you contract with or the vendors you have relationships with,” Bruce Radke, a member of the tech transactions and data privacy team at the health care law firm Polsinelli, said during a webinar Thursday. It’s the vendor that you have to be concerned about.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 15, 2022

With 42 submissions in the categories of Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, Skilled Nursing (SNF), and Behavioral Health, the scope of creativity is broader than ever before. HOME HEALTH & HOME CARE. Rebranding (Before and After).

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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. When the data came back, the state was of the impression that home care costs were lower in 2016 than they were in 2010.

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Home Health Care

JULY 20, 2023

Although the news will be greeted warmly by caregivers in the Golden State, experts in the home-based care space are worried the minimum wage increase will have adverse effects on providers. “It

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2021

“I see home health activity picking up now, conversations are taking place now, meetings are taking place now,” Mark Kulik, managing director at The Braff Group, said this week at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference. Schabes said during the NAHC event.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, Gentiva — a company that was born out of the divested home care and hospice assets of what used to be Kindred at Home — believes that it will be able to crack the code. “We Elimination Of Non-Competes Would Have ‘Major’ Effect On Home-Based Care World (Jan. It’s built on the physician Part B schedule.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As home-based care becomes more popular and renowned among the larger health care system, agencies will need to put a greater emphasis on legal compliance. HHCN: Matt, what’s your background in home health and home care, for our audience who might not be familiar with your work?

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2024

“We want to take care of everybody, but the reality is that the payments we get from fee-for-service Medicare Advantage don’t typically cover our costs,” Michael Johnson, the chief researcher of home care innovation at Bayada Home Health Care, recently told HHCN. “So, The numbers are all over the place.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Fort Myers, Florida-based Mertz Taggart is a health care M&A advisory firm focused on home health, home care, hospice and behavioral health. billion by 2030, home health care presents significant growth potential, as indicated by research from Grand View Research. “If With a valuation of $152.9

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The next year will be a big one for home care. Meanwhile, there are both legal threats and advocacy efforts that should be top of everyone’s mind, Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) CEO Vicki Hoak said during Home Care Pulse’s Growth Summit Monday. This is an election year,” Hoak said. “Why

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The mandate, it’s what we already had in place as a company,” Stanton said at the Home Health Care News Home Care Conference earlier this month. The Chicago-based BrightStar Care is one of the largest home care franchise companies in the nation.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2024

judge decided not to block the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) ban on non-compete agreements this week, continuing an ongoing saga that home care providers are paying close attention to. Broadly, the ban on non-competes is seen as generally positive for home care leaders, who can now freely move on to better career opportunities.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 8, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The erosion of non-solicitation agreements poses a significant challenge for home care providers, potentially undercutting their business models and profitability. Non-solicitation agreements keep home care clients from poaching caregivers trained and supplied by agencies.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“I think for the near-term future, until this is worked out in the courts, the mandates are not going to apply,” Angelo Spinola, the co-chair of the home health and home care industry group at the law firm Polsinelli, told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2023

Joint employment laws are particularly relevant to home-based care, Angelo Spinola — the co-chair of the home health and home care industry group at the law firm Polsinelli — said Thursday on a WellSky webinar. “If This includes workers from staffing agencies and franchisors, among others.

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