Medicare

If a home care worker could work their shift, come home and take a class to receive certification or more credentialing, which may lead to higher wages, they may be more invested in home care as a profession.

A bipartisan team of lawmakers is urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to draw up a home health payment rule for next year that ensures payments under the Patient Driven Groupings Model...

Becoming a Medicare-certified home health agency requires strict adherence to the rules of the Medicare program.

A new study predicted accountable care organizations will scale back expansion into home care services if they don’t see a return on their investment.

Union efforts to organize home care workers got a boost last week after the Biden administration ruled that state Medicaid programs can withhold union dues and employee benefits from home care workers’...

The chief financial officer for global dialysis provider DaVita Health is throwing cold water on the notion that the COVID-19 pandemic is ending anytime soon. 

InnovAge, the only publicly traded Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), narrowed losses in the company’s third fiscal quarter, which ended March 31

Seniors with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) could become a burden on Medicare Advantage plans, possibly forcing some MA plans to trim supplemental benefits, including home care.

For the first time, the Indian Health Service is allocating funding for Alzheimer’s disease within tribal communities across the United States

A Florida home health agency accused of improperly billing Medicare has agreed to pay the U.S. government $2.1 million to resolve the false claims.