HouseWorks acquires Care and Help Home Care, Amedisys’ personal care division The Massachusetts-based HouseWorks is expanding its footprint in Pennsylvania by acquiring Care and Help Home Care. Care and Help Home Care is a privately-owned personal care provider serving the greater Philadelphia area. “We are excited to welcome the Care and Help team to the […]
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This past winter didn’t have the COVID-19 surge that the previous one did. And yet, the referral rejection rate reached an all-time high in home health care – all the way up to 76%. All the while, patients being referred to home health have a higher acuity level on average. Nursing home referrals are also […]
The nature of home health provider-Medicare Advantage (MA) plan relationships has slowly begun to change, as some organizations have found ways to successfully work together and derive value from these collaborations more effectively. One factor that is changing the nature of payer and provider relationships is that there’s no denying that MA enrollment is on […]
Top home-based care leaders from across the country gathered at the end of March in Washington, D.C. We got to hear from many of them at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event last Thursday. While they are advocating for a better regulatory environment – whether in personal home care or home health care […]
Although home health providers want to see as many patients as possible to keep up with demand, it is impossible to do so under current circumstances. With that in mind, providers are questioning why they would willingly take on Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries knowing they’d be sacrificing dollars. Some industry experts believe providers should, at […]
Health care professionals working in acute settings are often in the line of fire when it comes to workplace violence. That is well documented. Yet, despite the difference in care setting, their home-based care counterparts aren’t immune to these same dangers. “[Workplace violence in the home] is very underreported — and always has been,” Andrea […]
One of the most intriguing story lines in home-based care over the next year will be whether home health providers can successfully make themselves an integral part of hospital-at-home care in the U.S. When hospital at home first began to increase in prevalence in 2020 due to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) […]
While home-based care is where health care is going, it’s also very behind from a technology standpoint. Even leaders at top-performing home health and home care agencies admit that their respective spaces are not where they should be in that area. It makes sense, then, that private equity and venture capital firms are intrigued by […]
Before Scott Powers was at the helm of Elara Caring, he worked in the payer space, specifically with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Now, the home health industry is at an inflection point when it comes to working with those plans, which are becoming a larger part of providers’ business by the day. In order to […]
Three new hires join Elara Caring Elara Caring announced that it has made three new hires. Matt McClasky joins the company as senior vice president of business development, Chris Corrigan joins as general counsel and Shane LuQuire as vice president of hospice sales. “Elara continues to build and develop its robust bench of talent as […]
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