A local outpost of the Visiting Nurses Association is halting service to El Paso customers, cutting its home health service offerings in the area. The Visiting Nurses Association Home Health Care of El Paso, the largest local provider of home health care, is cutting the home heath services it has previously offered, according to a […]
Category: Hospice
Next week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold an open door forum (ODF) to address the concerns of three unique healthcare areas relating to home health. The next Home Health, Hospice & Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Open Door Forum is scheduled for Wednesday, June 16, 2013 from 2:00pm—3:00pm, ET. Topics of […]
A Colorado hospice care provider has partnered with a remote monitoring technology provider to streamline the care process via mobile devices. Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care announced this week a partnership with mobile health care tech provider CellTrak to cut down on office trips and unnecessary travel. “The redundant and counter-productive trips to […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has issued a final rule that amends its payment regulation for non-VA providers to include providers of home health and hospice services. Effective November 15, 2013, non-Va home health and hospice providers that do not have a negotiated contract with the VA will be paid the lowest Medicare rate […]
Scripps Health became the owner of a hospice hospital this week after winning a head-to-head bidding war against Sharp HealthCare. Offering up the winning bid of $16.55 million, Scripps became the owner of the the former San Diego Hospice hospital and eight-acre property in Hillcrest. “We are very pleased to have this facility, which was […]
Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: KND) announced today that it has signed into definitive agreements to build and acquire several home health and hospice businesses. Kindred plans to open a new 120-bed transitional care center in Phoenix, Arizona, on the campus of IASIS Healthcare’s St. Luke’s Medical Center. The center will specialize in intensive short-term rehabilitation […]
Hospices would receive a payment increase of $180 million for fiscal year 2014 under a new proposed rule issued Monday. The payment boost would translate into a 1.1% increase in federal Medicare payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as a result of a 0.7% reduction in wage index changes and a 1.8% […]
Regulatory cutbacks might have cooled M&A activity for traditional Medicare home care businesses, but things might just be heating up on the hospice side. Given the federal sequestration earlier this year and reimbursement cuts playing critical roles in the market’s recent lull, industry experts agree that the home health M&A market will experience smaller scale […]
Students at the University of Notre Dame have been given the opportunity to add a course on hospice care to their curriculums. The University of Notre Dame and the Center for Hospice Care have teamed up to offer a unique course for ND students called, “Introduction to Hospice and Palliative Care.” First offered on campus […]
LHC Group Inc. (NASDAQ: LHCG) continues its strategy of acquiring hospice providers within the company’s home health market with another acquisition. LHC announced that it has acquired the assets of Infirmary Hospice Care in Mobile, Alabama. Current annual revenue for the agency is approximately $2.5 million and will continue to operate under the Infirmary name throughout […]
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