The Memory Care Innovation program is designed to recognize passionate and innovative industry members who are shaping the future of cognitive care across behavioral health, home health and home care, hospice and palliative care, senior housing, and skilled nursing. To see this year’s inaugural Memory Care Innovation Award winners, visit https://innovation.memorycarebusiness.com/. Monique Frahm, Care Educator […]
The Memory Care Innovation program is designed to recognize passionate and innovative industry members who are shaping the future of cognitive care across behavioral health, home health and home care, hospice and palliative care, senior housing, and skilled nursing. To see this year’s inaugural Memory Care Innovation Award winners, visit https://innovation.memorycarebusiness.com/. Darci Henry, Care Coach […]
The Memory Care Innovation program is designed to recognize passionate and innovative industry members who are shaping the future of cognitive care across behavioral health, home health and home care, hospice and palliative care, senior housing, and skilled nursing. To see this year’s inaugural Memory Care Innovation Award winners, visit https://innovation.memorycarebusiness.com/. Kim Mulquin-Shumway, VP of […]
The Change Healthcare cyberattack disrupted health care providers across the board, including home-based care providers. Soon, one of the government-backed efforts to offer assistance to those organizations will end. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Monday that its advanced and accelerated payment program tied to the cyberattack will end July 12. […]
A group of bipartisan lawmakers this week reintroduced legislation aimed at curtailing restrictive – and often flawed – prior-authorization processes within Medicare Advantage (MA). As it has been to most other parts of health care, prior authorization has long been problematic for home health providers and patients. That’s been increasingly true as more insurers have […]
Investment activity in home-based care may be picking up. Zenyth Partners – a New York-based investment firm focused on growing health care companies from early-stage businesses into larger platforms – announced Thursday it has made an investment in LifeCare Home Health Family. Financial details around the investment were not disclosed. Based in Irving, Texas, LifeCare […]
Home Health Care Solutions has new CEO Brad Harris has been appointed CEO of Home Health Care Solutions. Part of Miller’s Health System, Home Health Care Solutions is a diversified in-home care provider that delivers services across the majority of Indiana. The company’s offerings include traditional home health services, along with behavioral health care, telehealth […]
Value-based care has long been a core focus for UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and its Optum arm. Recently, however, the health care giant has started to view value-based care as a sustainable business model that it can lean into to drive growth across its operations. And it’s home-based care that has helped UnitedHealth Group take […]
Medicare Advantage (MA) – the offshoot of traditional Medicare that’s administered by private insurance companies – has recently caught a lot of flak. As it pertains to home health care specifically, MA plans have been criticized for their cumbersome prior authorization requirements and provider reimbursement rates that are typically far below fee-for-service Medicare. What’s more, […]
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH) continues to chip away at its turnaround goals, with the Atlanta-based company’s leadership team seeing particular progress on its preferred-payer strategy and the industry-wide labor landscape. Contextually, 2024 marks Year 2 of the home health, hospice and private-duty services company’s strategic transformation initiative. Aveanna went public in 2021 with […]