Nov 18, 2024 · With the 2025 home health final payment rule came the admission-to-service policy — an update to the Medicare Conditions of Participation. In many ways, experts consider it a formalization of measures home health providers are …

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Dec 2, 2024 · Addus HomeCare Corp. (Nasdaq: ADUS) has completed its acquisition of Gentiva’s personal care assets. The deal will significantly bolster Addus’ footprint in certain states, and also allow the company to enter other states for the first time.

Sep 4, 2024 · Based in Chicago, Help at Home is a personal care provider that mostly focuses on Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS). The company operates more than 180 branch locations across 11 states, with 67,000 clients and more than 58,000 caregivers.

Dec 18, 2024 · 1. Home Care Industry Slams Finalized 80-20 Rule, Warns Agency Closures Are Coming (April 22). When the “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule was finalized in April, after first being proposed in 2023, all eyes were on the 80-20 provision.

Dec 27, 2024 · The companies have signed a new waiver agreement that extends the deadline for their merger to either ten days after the final court decision in the ongoing DOJ lawsuit or Dec. 31, 2025, whichever comes first, according to the filing.

Nov 1, 2024 · Rousseau also announced the addition of a third independent director to BrightSpring’s board of directors, Dr. Steve Miller. “Dr. Miller brings decades of impressive clinical leadership experience,” Rousseau said.

Dec 2, 2024 · The lawsuit was filed by Freedom Care LLC. “[The Health Department] structured the process with an apparent eye toward PPL, imposing eligibility requirements that eliminated almost all of [Public Partnership’s] potential competitors — though, importantly, Freedom Care was able to jump through every hoop DOH erected,” Freedom Care argued in the lawsuit, which was filed against the ...

Sep 9, 2024 · That has the chance to contribute to a “leveling off” of MA penetration, which has been steady over the last decade.. Centene Corp. (NYSE: CNC) also announced recently that it is set to pull back on MA in at least six states next year, as did BlueCross BlueShield.. For home health providers and home care providers, a tougher payment environment for MA plans could mean less leeway for ...

Dec 19, 2024 · On Dec. 10, Thomas Doyle, general counsel for the Oregon Nurses Association, a labor union, wrote to the director of OHA.In his letter, he requested the authority to intervene in the merger and acquisition process.