New Day Healthcare has made Jeff Bonham its senior leadership executive and operations project specialist. He will head up the company’s strategic initiatives around Medicare Advantage (MA), and a virtual home health model to support MA business. “Bringing Jeff on board is a huge lift for New Day as we continue to ‘Burn the Ships’ […]
SCAN Group
The planned combination of SCAN Group and CareOregon is no longer. In a joint statement, the two companies announced their merger will not continue as scheduled, citing questions about the combination that couldn’t be resolved. “Our intent in coming together was to support Oregon’s health care system and the people that CareOregon serves,” the companies […]
Dina — a digital network management company for home- and community-based services — recently closed a $7 million funding round. The round was led by venture capital investor First Analysis, with participation from existing investors Osage Venture Partners and First Trust Capital Partners. Dina also counts SCAN Group as one of its investors. The organization […]
Everyone in home-based care wants to get further into value- and risk-based contracting. No one can agree on the best way to do so. Some providers believe that honing in on just one or two core service lines – like home health and hospice care, for example – is the best way to go. Others […]
When home-based care providers think about the “middlemen” they are frustrated with, their minds will likely wander to the conveners in between themselves and Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Undoubtedly, some of those conveners play a middleman role, and can strain the relationship between providers, payers and patients. But they aren’t the only ones. In fact, […]
Home health providers are in a challenging operating environment, despite their services being more in demand than ever. Their leaders are trying to grapple with those two realities. They want to be the ones that benefit from higher demand, instead of another outsider like UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) or any […]
One of the biggest opportunities that home-based care providers have today is to dive deeper into patient engagement, according to SCAN Group CEO Dr. Sachin Jain. Jain, during a panel at the Home Care Innovation + Investment Conference in Chicago last week, said that while patient engagement and education is an issue with health care […]
Elara Caring adds Dr. Kevin Henning to its leadership team Elara Caring — one of the largest home health providers in the U.S. — has named Dr. Kevin Henning as its chief medical officer. “Dr. Henning joins Elara at an incredibly exciting time,” Elara Caring COO Ananth Mohan said in a press statement. “We are […]
The SCAN Group and CareOregon announced late Wednesday that they have entered an agreement to combine under the name HealthRight Group. It’s a deal that is, at least to some extent, more than two years in the making. On Sachin Jain’s first day in his new role as president and CEO at the SCAN Group, […]
Changing industry dynamics might be slowing home health care’s labor arbitrage. Prior to 2020, a major workforce priority for several home health providers was making sure their clinicians were “operating at the top of their license.” Generally, the belief was that operators could stretch staffing capacity and reduce visit costs by shifting certain duties from […]
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