healthcare

Home health helped to bolster Walgreens Boots Alliance in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 as the company struggled with a $3.7 billion loss to settle opioid-related claims and litigation.

A coalition of 17 provider organizations is urging the Department of Labor to consider the needs of the healthcare industry under a proposed rule aimed at cracking down on the misclassification of contract...

More Medicare beneficiaries did an about-face between 2017 and 2020 and switched from traditional Medicare plans to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, according to a recent study published in JAMA Health Forum.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) could prove to be a strong ally to the home care industry as he takes over the chairmanship of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee next month,...

A bipartisan group of New York legislators and local officials spent their holiday break lobbying for higher wages for home care workers in that state. 

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, sounded an urgent alarm to the healthcare industry last spring as the COVID-19 pandemic was ebbing. Burnout, he said, had become a crisis among overworked, stressed-out...

HealthRight, a new partnership between California-based Scan Group and CareOregon, could lay the foundation for a national in-home healthcare program for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. 

The FDA announced late last week it will meet in January to discuss future COVID-19 vaccines

Canada could provide a roadmap for the United States as it moves more healthcare into the home

Hospice aides/certified nursing assistants received hourly pay hikes in 2022 that more than doubled the increases they received in 2021