By Audrey Kinsella Imagine being issued a driver’s license that is only recognized in the issuing state. Before you may drive across a state line, you would have to obtain a separate license in that state. It might not matter much if you live in Hawaii, or even in Anchorage, Anaheim or Austin. In the […]
Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: GTIV), one of the largest providers of home health, hospice and community care services in the United States, reported on August 5 its second quarter 2014 results that surpassed Gentiva’s previous guidance for the quarter. The company also adjusted fiscal year 2014 guidance to reflect the Company’s strong year-to-date performance […]
GrandCare Systems announced on August 4 that they have made changes to their executive management team, expanded their staff, and moved into a larger office space. The 9-year old provider of a touch-based, in-home caregiving appliance was given a grant by the city of West Bend, Wisconsin to keep its headquarters in town when […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is restarting the controversial Recovery Audit Contractor Program—in a limited fashion—in August. CMS informed Congress on August 4, via a letter to congressional health staff members from Lauren Aronson, Director of the CMS Office of Legislation, that the Recovery Audit Contractor Program will be restarted this month. […]
Relias Learning, the leader in SaaS-based training and compliance solutions for the health and human services markets, announced this week that it will make twelve online courses available at no charge for hospice volunteers working for existing Relias customers. This new offering will allow these customers to help prepare all volunteers to work with […]
According to a news bulletin from the American College of Emergency Physicians®, a recent California study discovered that closing hospital emergency departments increases the mortality rate of patients who were forced to go to the next nearest emergency room. Patients admitted to hospitals in the vicinity of a hospital that had closed its emergency […]
“The nature of home healthcare is changing, and along with it the software requirements of home care providers.” This assessment by Kinnser Software COO Christopher Fountain explains two major recent moves by the Austin, Texas software company, helping it shed its 11-year reputation as a low-cost facilitator of Medicare startups. Kinnser announced at last month’s NAHC Financial […]
by Tim Rowan, Editor I am often asked how it can be that the national home care message, as powerful and convincing as we believe it to be, has such a difficult time getting through to state and federal lawmakers, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and CMS regulators. This summer it took a lawsuit […]
Packing for one last visit with her dying father in Ohio, an Illinois woman gets the call that her father is rapidly declining. It is clear she will not be able to reach him before he passes away at the Patient Care Center at Hospice of Southwest Ohio in Cincinnati. Moved by compassion and […]
In the latest Commonwealth Fund report on world healthcare systems, Mirror, Mirror, the bad news is that the United States’ system is still the most expensive in the world. The good news is that our patient outcomes are no worse than they were in previous reports. Not everyone would agree that is good news. […]
