Despite Strong Bipartisan Support, Choose Home Facing Roadblocks

Although Congressional support continues to grow for the Choose Home Care Act of 2021 in Washington, D.C., the legislation remains in limbo. Other pieces of legislation for lawmakers have pushed the Choose Home bill down the priority list, but National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. Dombi is hopeful something will […]

IntelyCare Raises $115 Million, Aims to Grow Home Health Footprint

IntelyCare, a Boston-based health care staffing solutions platform, announced Wednesday that it has raised $115 million in Series C funding. It plans to use the new funding to expand its footprint to new states while investing heavily in its AI-based platform and data-science technology. And even though IntelyCare launched its home health efforts in the […]

Home Health Consolidation Is ‘Not a Gordon Gekko-Type Situation,’ M&A Experts Argue

The pace hasn’t been as aggressive as some expected, but the home health industry has been undergoing a wave of consolidation over the past several years, with the number of freestanding agencies decreasing annually since at least 2015. While consolidation can certainly bring added stresses for existing operators, experts in the mergers-and-acquisitions field note there […]

Home Health Agencies Should Brace for PDGM Battle Later This Year

Home health providers should brace themselves for a potential Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) battle with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) later this year. Implemented on Jan. 1, 2020, PDGM is the largest overhaul to how Medicare-certified home health agencies are paid in two decades. And normally when CMS implements something of […]

Amid ‘Hyper-Competitive’ M&A Market, Trinity Health at Home Focuses on Private-Duty Expansion

Trinity Health at Home – one of the largest home health providers in the country – plans to expand its private-duty footprint and be more aggressive in a “hyper-competitive” acquisition marketplace this year. Private-duty home care is not something that the Livonia, Michigan-based Trinity Health at Home currently offers at most of its ministries or […]

To Improve the Effectiveness of Transportation Business, Modivcare Launches Transportation Council

Modivcare (Nasdaq: MODV) announced this week that it is launching a national Transportation Provider Advisory Council (TPAC) to gather feedback and perspective on how to better serve its patients. Modivcare is a Denver-based company that offers technology-enabled health care services and provides non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT). The company’s Modivcare Home division includes its personal care, […]