Collaboration with tech firm could benefit care delivery to home for Philly health system
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 08, 2023
A strategic innovation collaboration with a medical technology firm will advance a health system’s strategy of providing healthcare in the home.
Signify Health, Cardinal Health collaborate to push medication management into the home
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 07, 2023
A new collaboration between tech-based home care firm Signify Health and healthcare service firm Cardinal Health could bring medication management services to nearly 2.3 million people in their homes.
Healthcare leaders at odds over CMS 2024 proposed rates for MA plans
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Diane Eastabrook
Mar 07, 2023
Healthcare leaders offered dramatically different views on a proposal by the Department of Health and Human Services to rein in payments to Medicare Advantage plans next year.
Enhabit CEO’s advice to providers: Learn to work with conveners
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Diane Eastabrook
Mar 02, 2023
Conveners can be an important ally for home health firms as they negotiate contracts with Medicare Advantage plans, according to Enhabit Home Care & Hospice CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer.
Healthcare top target of ransomware attacks last year
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Diane Eastabrook
Mar 02, 2023
Healthcare and public health were the top targets of ransomware attacks last year, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
EEOC sues Virginia home health agency for pay discrimination
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Diane Eastabrook
Mar 01, 2023
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Virginia-based Inova Home Health LLC and its owner, Ohio-based Alternate Solutions Health Network, for paying female post-acute care coordinators...
Home health, hospice among top 15 PE healthcare investments in 2022
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Diane Eastabrook
Feb 28, 2023
Private equity (PE) investments in healthcare in 2022 were the second-highest on record behind 2021, with home health and hospice among the top 15 subsets
Home health lags healthcare industry again in price growth
By
Diane Eastabrook
Feb 23, 2023
Price growth for home health services continued to lag behind most of the healthcare industry in the first month of 2023, according to a new report from healthcare research and consulting firm Altarum.
State forbids nonmedical agencies from using the word ‘care’ in advertising
By
Liza Berger
Feb 21, 2023
Nonmedical home care providers in Connecticut are crying foul at new survey guidance that is prohibiting them from using the word “care” in advertising materials.
Provider groups, Senate committee take on healthcare worker shortage
By
Diane Eastabrook
Feb 21, 2023
Federal training grants and immigration reform were among the solutions provider groups recommended to a Senate committee last week to address the healthcare worker crisis.