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Jan 16, 2025 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
The spotlight on personal home care has gotten brighter in recent years, and that will continue in 2025. The population will continue to age, while payment models, regulatory policy and technological innovation will continue to enable more people to receive care in their preferred setting – their own home. But despite these tailwinds, the path toward achieving long-term business success is not straightforward.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
This article is a part of your HHCN+ MembershipThe year ahead will be a fascinating one in home health care. As 2025 dawns, the industry faces many uncertainties, and the next 12 months will be pivotal in shaping the future. Regulatory decisions will have an outsized impact on home health providers in the near-term, and their effects could stretch well into the future.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
When Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) acquired Contessa Health for $250 million in 2021, it changed the home-based care landscape. While other companies had been toying with high-acuity care in the home, that deal sent a clear message: Home-based care was becoming more than just Medicare-certified home health care and personal care services. Since that point, Contessa Health has had to fight an uphill battle. With any newer service, health systems and payers need to be convinced of its worth.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
The rapidly growing home care provider Village Caregiving is expanding once again. Most recently, the company entered into North Carolina. With the opening of its first regional office in North Carolina, Village Caregiving now has a presence in 22 states. In total, it has about 3,300 caregivers and 5,500 clients.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
The home care provider HouseWorks has launched its “Payor HUB” to enhance its relationship with payers and to improve outcomes. HouseWorks is one of the largest non-franchised home care providers in the country. It believes it can blaze a trail with the Payor HUB, which is the next iteration of its “proprietary HouseWorks technology platform.”The goal of the HUB is to “transform care coordination” for not just itself, but also other home care providers.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
Avenues Home Care, which launched earlier this year, has already made a splash on the M&A market. The company announced Monday that it acquired Clear Path Home Care. The deal will bring six new locations into the Avenues network in Texas, specifically in the Dallas area. It will enhance opportunities around veteran care, including through the VA Homemaker and Home Health Aide programs, according to the company. Based in Dallas, Avenues now has 14 total locations across Texas, Tennessee and Georgia.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
Home-based care providers hungry for value-based care arrangements have recently been disillusioned by the process of trying to find those arrangements. While they’ve been told value-based care is the way to go, they often end up finding that health systems and payers aren’t as willing to meet them in the middle. Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer has mentioned this on multiple occasions.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
This article is a part of your HHCN+ MembershipOne of the publicity issues home-based care faces is that most people don’t even understand the difference between home health care and home care, much to the chagrin of industry veterans in both sectors. But in the future, those same leaders are bullish on the merging of those two types of care. Home care and home health care are separate services, yes. But together, could they unlock a doorway to the world of value-based care?
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
The National Alliance for Care at Home’s (the Alliance) leadership team is rounding into form. Sherl Brand – who has significant leadership experience in provider, association and third-party roles – is set to become the next COO. Brand will begin her new position in the middle of January.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
homehealthcarenews.com | Andrew Donlan
LHC Group President and CEO Josh Proffitt on Wednesday shared a home-based, value-based vision for the company’s future. UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum acquired LHC Group last year for $5.4 billion. “Home Care remains deeply fragmented, disconnected and too difficult to navigate,” Proffitt said Wednesday. “It accounts for about $150 billion of the health sector today, and we expect this figure to climb substantially by the end of the decade.
