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How 2 Home Health Providers Fine-Tuned Hospital to Home Transitions

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care providers are often uniquely positioned to play a critical role in timely hospital to home transitions. Organization...

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Top Home Care Trends For 2025

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The spotlight on personal home care has gotten brighter in recent years, and that will continue in 2025. The population will continu...

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Voices: Carter Bakkum, Senior Consultant, Data & Analytics, Trella Health

This article is sponsored by Trella Health. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Carter Bakkum, Senior Consultant, Data & Analytics, Trella Health, to talk about the l...

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Prestige Home Health Care Sues HHS For Millions in Damages

Prestige Home Health Care filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Jan. 9. The company claims that a flawed Medicare claim appeals process has caused it to ...

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AdventHealth Rolls Out New Hospital-At-Home Program

AdventHealth is rolling out hospital-level acute care at home for its patients in central Florida with the launch of AdventHealth Hospital at Home. The program allows patients who need a...

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WTWH Healthcare Announces the Winners of the Inaugural Prism Awards

WTWH Healthcare, a WTWH Media, LLC company, is proud to announce the winners of the inaugural Prism Awards. This program honors individuals and organizations that have demonstrated exemplary achiev...

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Fewer Medicare Advantage Plans Are Offering Home-Based Care Services For 2025

Last year, many major Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations released previews of what benefits they planned to offer seniors this year. Many of these organizations have moved away from o...

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Partnership For Quality Home Healthcare To Merge With National Alliance For Care At Home

The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (PQHH) will shut down effective March 1. The PQHH board of directors will join efforts with the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) to crea...

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Choice Health At Home Acquires Family Tree Private Care

Choice Health at Home has acquired Family Tree Private Care, solidifying its comprehensive continuum of care for patients in Texas, Colorado and the southwestern U.S. Since 2017, Family ...

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How the Incoming Trump Administration Could Impact Home-Based Care

Questions always abound when a new presidential administration comes in, but Republicans’ focus on cost-cutting hold potential for home-based care — if providers can advocate for themselves in Wash...

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LLCP Acquires Synergy HomeCare, Poised For Growth

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has acquired Synergy HomeCare. Synergy, headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, offers many non-medical in-home services. These include personal care, c...

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Finding The Right Payer Mix Key to ‘Fiscal Resilience’ in Home Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership As home care leaders look to the rest of 2025, they are considering how their current payer mix will impact their organizations and ...

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Former Home Care Agency Owner Charged With $1 Million Medicaid Fraud

Tina Bell, the owner of the now-defunct Superior Health Inc., has been charged with Medicaid fraud and endangering vulnerable individuals under her care. Although licensed as a home car...

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How Home Health Agencies Can Adapt To TEAM and HHVBP Models

The landscape of home health care is evolving through the introduction of two key models designed to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs: the expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVB...

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BrightSpring To Divest Community Living Business to Sevita

BrightSpring Health Services (Nasdaq: BTSG) has entered into an agreement to divest its community living business to Sevita for $835 million in cash. “In Sevita, we are pleased to partne...

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Better Information Crucial to Improved Home Health Reimbursement

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Slashed Medicare rates are the most significant headwind pummeling home health providers in 2025. This two-fisted conundr...

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The Department Of Labor Recovers Back Wages From Home-Based Care Providers

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has recovered $844,274 in back wages in connection with employee misclassification at home-based care organizations. Two recent DOL investigations foun...

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Trump Administration Halts External Health Agency Communications Just Days Into New Term

The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, including health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media po...

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Enhabit Relies On Regional Contracts For More Favorable Rates

As an organization, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) didn’t always have the strongest rates from payers. Enhabit’s strategy of zeroing-in on regional payer contracts has helped drive the company forward. ...

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Managing a manic episode: Tips, recovery, and more

Dealing with a manic episode can cause intense distress. However, planning and treatment can help a person cope with and manage symptoms of mania.Mania is a symptom of various mental health conditi...

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When should someone with dementia go into a care home?

Medically reviewed by Shilpa Amin, M.D., CAQ, FAAFP, Family Medicine, Women's Health, Geriatrics, Integrative Medicine, Clinical Research, Jurisprudence, — Written by Beth Sissons on December 1, ...

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