In what is sure to become a historic manifesto, 40-year home care veteran Dr. Bob Fazzi calls all of us to redefine our role in the US healthcare system. More than a naming exercise, this landmark declaration is a call to action…and a warning of what is to come if we remain passive.
— National private duty franchise corporation “Seniors Helping Seniors” has selected ClearCare Online as its EMR, scheduling, and billing application. — Care at Hand introduces new Chief Nursing and Quality Officer
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel strongly disagreed with a lower court’s January decision that the Department of Labor had improperly re-defined in-home senior care late last year.
By Tim Rowan Consolo Services Group, the Lexington, Kentucky-based provider of fully-integrated, SaaS-based health IT solutions for the hospice and palliative care industry, announced in July that it has completed a $12.6 million financing through private equity firm Bluff Point Associates.
by Tim Rowan Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Health and Human Services has released proposed rates for remote patient monitoring reimbursement by home health agencies. The proposed regulation’s new service and associated payment rate,
By Roger McManus With this month’s announcement that Yelp has opened a healthcare review section, it is serendipitous that we had scheduled the seventh in Roger McManus’s 8-part series of articles on Inverse Marketing.This week’s installment teaches you what to do and what not to do when Yelp inevitably moves into the healthcare at home […]
On August 5, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman used his official blog to announce that the company has added a healthcare section to its popular review service. If it catches on, it seems a safe bet that it will one day expand from hospitals and physicians to the post-acute side of healthcare.
by Fred Schulte A new whistleblower case accuses a Texas medical consulting firm and more than two dozen health plans for the elderly of ripping off Medicare by conducting in-home patient exams that allegedly overstated how much the plans should be paid.
By Tim Rowan Healthcare analytics company Care at Hand announced this week that it has raised $560,000.
The 2016 final rule establishing a new hospice payment system is now law. We asked a 20-year hospice veteran nurse exactly what it means to providers.
