The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicare rate cuts, state-driven Medicaid member redeterminations and the Change Healthcare cyberattack. These are just three disruptions that UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) leadership has had to factor in when setting future growth objectives. “It’s a distinctive part of the culture of UnitedHealth Group that we continue to […]
Optum
Working with any government agency may require cutting through a lot of red tape. Still, home care providers interested in caring for aging veterans have various opportunities to partner with the Veterans Administration (VA) and make a difference for those who served. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2023, there were an estimated […]
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) is waiting for multiple big-time transactions to come to fruition by year end. In the meantime, it continues to grow its non-Medicare revenue and its high-acuity care business considerably. The company released its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, without an accompanying call. It has not held an official earnings call since UnitedHealth […]
UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum has reportedly conducted a round of layoffs, specifically within Landmark Health, which is an in-home medical care operator. Optum agreed to acquire Landmark Health early in 2021. Optum also acquired the in-home medical group Prospero Health early in 2023, rolling it into Landmark Health. While the layoffs are not isolated […]
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) filed paperwork Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission saying it has agreed to divest “certain” locations to an affiliate of home health and hospice company VitalCaring. The divestiture was a way for Amedisys to avoid further antitrust concerns from regulators prior to it joining UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). UnitedHealth […]
As UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) work on a divestment strategy that will satisfy regulators, a lot hangs in the balance. For one, UnitedHealth Group and Optum’s deal for the home health and hospice provider Amedisys is one of the largest deals in the industry’s history, only trailing Optum’s deal for Amedisys’ […]
Value-based care has long been a core focus for UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and its Optum arm. Recently, however, the health care giant has started to view value-based care as a sustainable business model that it can lean into to drive growth across its operations. And it’s home-based care that has helped UnitedHealth Group take […]
It was a turbulent start to the year for the health care giant UnitedHealth Group, driven by the cyberattack on Change Healthcare and a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust investigation. Amid the DOJ investigation, UnitedHealth Group’s planned acquisition of the home health company Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) came into focus, with reports circulating that […]
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) announced combination plans last June, under which home health giant Amedisys would become part of Optum. Amedisys had previously entered into an agreement to merge with infusion therapy company Option Care Health (Nasdaq: OPCH), but UnitedHealth Group’s offer, scale and complementary clinical capabilities were effectively too […]
Thanks to impactful, large-scale transactions over the last decade, the collective face of home-based care has changed forever. Traditional providers in both home health care and personal home care have merged. Payers became involved in the home-based care space like never before. Of late, retailers have too. But it’s often easy to forget how the […]
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