Home health providers, health systems and large health care-focused retailers are moving away from being one-dimensional companies. With home-based care as the starting point, many of these organizations are embracing 360-degree home-based care delivery models. One company that exemplifies this is the home-based care provider Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED). The Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based company delivers […]
CenterWell Senior Primary Care – a part of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) – is expanding into the home. It announced Wednesday that, in select Georgia and Louisiana locations, patients would be able to receive at-home primary care services under its “CenterWell Primary Care Anywhere” program. CenterWell is Humana’s senior care services arm. It includes pharmacy, […]
Last year, home-based care companies far and wide experienced impressive growth. Among those were organizations that recently grabbed spots on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies. Home Health Care News sat down with a few of those providers to find out how they continue to grow at such a rapid rate. Serving seniors […]
In some ways, addressing access-to-care issues is the ethos behind all at-home care. Moving care into the home, after all, eliminates numerous barriers that keep individuals from receiving care. Even though closing care gaps is in home-based care providers’ DNA, some are taking that a step further and focusing on a set of very specific […]
As home-based care continues to be the preferred care delivery method, it follows that companies delivering these services, as well as vendors in the space, would see growth as a result. With this in mind, it’s no surprise a number of companies working in the home health, home care, senior care and health care technology […]
WellBe Senior Medical has expanded its services to, now, reach more than 75,000 patients. The Chicago-based WellBe offers home-based medical care services, including integrated mobile urgent care, in six states: Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The organization partners directly with health plans, health systems, and provider groups to work with their patients […]
Jeff Kang, the CEO of WellBe Senior Medical, has been in health care for a long time. He was the first chief medical officer of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), serving in that role from 1995 to 2002. Since then, he has held leadership roles at Cigna (NYSE: CI), Walgreens Boots Alliance […]
The Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI) is a microcosm of the larger trend that is home-based primary care. This type of care is proliferating across the U.S., as is HCCI. The organization’s Illinois House Call Project launched in the spring of 2022 with a goal of serving 3,000 new patients in their homes over the […]
As one of the largest health systems in the country, Intermountain Healthcare has moved mountains to establish its place in the home-based care space. With a number of care-at-home programs under its belt — including home health care, primary care, hospital-at-home and more — the health system is attempting to move the needle with an […]
Coming off an unfavorable final rule for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is still riding high. The company’s leaders explained the strategy behind recent success in MA, and future success in home health care, on an earnings call Wednesday. During the call, Humana CEO Bruce Broussard applauded the Centers for Medicare & […]
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