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Jul 3, 2024 · Home Health Care News (HHCN) is the leading source for news and information covering the home health industry. HHCN is part of the Aging Media Network.
Inside Today’s Changing Care Assessment Landscape - Home …
Aug 14, 2024 · Bill Riemer calls it The Frankenstein Effect. As Vice President Health Information Systems at AccentCare, Riemer adapts the organization’s technology to meet regulatory and compliance changes that impact assessments at the Start of Care.
Enhabit Home Health & Hospice Completes Spinoff from …
Jul 1, 2022 · Enhabit Home Health & Hospice (NYSE: EHAB) has completed its spinoff from Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC). The move is over a year and a half in the making, after Encompass Health first announced it was exploring “strategic alternatives” for its home health and hospice segment in December of 2020. “Today marks a new and exciting chapter for our company, and we look forward to ...
UnitedHealth’s Optum Reportedly Strikes Deal for Landmark Health
Feb 21, 2021 · Optum, a part of UnitedHealth Group, has reportedly reached a deal to acquire Landmark Health, an in-home medical group focused on the sickest and frailest populations. The deal values Landmark at about $3.5 billion and would expand Optum's population health-focused services in the home.
InnovAge Wants PACE To Be More Than Just Health Care’s ‘Best …
Aug 12, 2024 · Patrick Blair, CEO of InnovAge Holding Corp., discusses the company's performance, PACE program, and policy issues in an interview with Home Health Care News. He also shares how the company expanded its footprint with a recent acquisition and how it plans to improve PACE awareness and access.
‘Not About A Shiny New Toy’: How Home ... - Home Health Care …
Feb 9, 2024 · As home health patients become sicker and more complex, providers have been forced to find ways to keep their care models financially viable. In order to combat some of those “acuity creep” challenges, industry leaders are leaning on technology, data-driven decision making and more value-based care. “We continue to navigate through a very regulated industry,” Janice Riggins, chief ...
Medicare Sequestration’s Return Puts Home Health Agencies in …
Mar 20, 2022 · Home health agencies and other Medicare-reimbursed health care providers are just a couple weeks away from the return of sequestration. For many agencies, the restart of the 2% cut will merely be a return to normal, pre-pandemic business.
Lawmakers Introduce Bill That Would Reduce Red Tape For PACE …
Jul 26, 2024 · Lawmakers have introduced a new bill that aims to improve access to the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). Home-based care providers operate – and partner with – PACE programs on a regular basis.
[Updated] The Top 10 Largest Home Health, Hospice Providers in …
The 2021 list from LexisNexis Risk Solutions may also look drastically different due to potential shakeup within the current top 10. Encompass Health, for example, recently announced that it was exploring “strategic alternatives” for its sizable home health and hospice segment. Brookdale did the same, with the senior living operator looking to possibly cash-in …
The Top 10 Home Health Care News Stories of 2021
Dec 21, 2021 · The public health emergency continued to have an impact on home-based care providers in 2021. It didn’t define the year, however. As the top Home Health Care News stories of 2021 suggest, this year was about so much more than the COVID-19 crisis.