From the Editor

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

In the hierarchy of home care segments, it seems that personal care perpetually hovers around the bottom. 

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...

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.

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...

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...