Home Health Care

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Home Health Care

JULY 1, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care providers are navigating headwinds that include, but are not limited to, the 80/20 provision, the FTC ban on non-competes and increased workplace violence. Hanold: I have the honor of leading Care Advantage. I specialize in home care. My firm is Polsinelli.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Firstly, providers should be aware they can still be sued for improperly classifying a worker as a contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Emina Poricanin, managing attorney of the New York-based Poricanin Law, told Home Health Care News. What home-based care agencies should know.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 13, 2022

While they’ll largely be targeting nursing homes and PE investment as part of a recently unveiled senior care initiative from the Biden administration, there will likely be ripple effects in the home-based care space. PE action in those spaces, in fact, has arguably outpaced nursing home investment. “In

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It seems, for example, that the courts are giving much more weight to medical exemptions than religious ones, Angelo Spinola, the co-chair of the home health and home care industry group at the law firm Polsinelli, told HHCN in an email.

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