Home care Advocacy Day offers opportunity to tell your story
By
Liza Berger
Mar 24, 2023
Want to give your legislator a piece of your mind? You’ll have your chance next week, when the National Association for Home Care & Hospice holds its Advocacy Day in Washington, DC.
Workforce: Still the toughest nut to crack
By
Liza Berger
Mar 17, 2023
If anyone has the answer to the home care workforce shortage, they should be in line to win $64,000 (much more due to inflation) because that, my friends, continues to be the big question.
Don’t waste HCBS 2.0
By
Liza Berger
Mar 10, 2023
The best things come to those who wait. That old Heinz ketchup slogan may be an apt description for the recent re-introductions of legislation and funding for home- and community-based services.
Private equity makes its move on home care
By
Liza Berger
Mar 03, 2023
Look out, home care. Private equity has its eyes on you. That was one of the messages of a recent report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit watchdog group.
A tale of two transactions
By
Liza Berger
Feb 24, 2023
Two major deals made this a big week for healthcare dealmaking. The first was UnitedHealth Group’s acquisition of LHC Group for a whopping $5.4 billion. A second was Amazon’s purchase of healthcare...
Personal care, the Rodney Dangerfield of home care
By
Liza Berger
Feb 17, 2023
In the hierarchy of home care segments, it seems that personal care perpetually hovers around the bottom.
Medicare Advantage: Better get used to it
By
Liza Berger
Feb 10, 2023
Now and then it takes a wake-up call to get us to change our perspective or behavior. It seems to me an alarm rang particularly loudly this week for home health operators and Medicare Advantage, thanks...
A slow turning of the screw for hospices
By
Liza Berger
Feb 03, 2023
The recent hospice guidance represents yet another move by the federal government to intimidate and root out bad actors, who have been proliferating the space for some time.
Sign of the times: CMS is short-staffed too
By
Liza Berger
Jan 27, 2023
Home care providers struggling with staffing issues, take heart. You are not the only ones wracking your brains trying to find willing employees. We all learned this week that one of your bosses, the Centers...
Look who’s standing up to bad-actor hospice providers
By
Liza Berger
Jan 20, 2023
There is strength in numbers. I think that saying certainly can apply to Thursday’s joint statement by four provider groups to Congress and regulators about the unsavory expansion of hospices in certain...