By Tim Rowan, editor & publisher of Home Care Technology Report This is the research project we have all been waiting for. For years, healthcare at home lobbyists and advocacy organizations have been trying to get through to public and private payers the principle that both skilled medical and personal care services provided to people […]
Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced recently that Relias Learning LLC will add more than 450 jobs over the coming five years in Wake County. The online learning company had revealed plans to invest $4.5 million at its location […]
Overland Park, KS, August 9, 2016– Netsmart has announced that Dawn Iddings has joined the company as senior vice president and general manager of Netsmart Homecare™. Iddings will manage the continued development of Netsmart’s market-leading home care, hospice, palliative care and private duty solution, including integration into the Netsmart CareFabric® suite of clinical and business […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Join Beth Carpenter, Sharon Harder and Nancy Houser from home health care consultants Beth Carpenter and Associates, as they explore and instruct through a 4-part webinar series on the Medicare Fee for Service Pre-Claim Review Process. This Pre-Claim Review Process is sure to migrate […]
by Michelle Boasten To avoid 30-day readmission penalties and prepare for new payment systems that emphasize value-based care, Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles offered development and financial support to 11 startup innovators. HomeHero was one of the participants in the hospital’s Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, designed to address comprehensive regulatory changes set in place by the […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Following her throat cancer diagnosis, the patient had to have a tracheotomy surgically implanted, rendering her nonverbal. Thanks to a two-way video system mounted on a small, remote-controlled robot, she is able to communicate with her caregivers from Acacia Living in Santa Barbara, California. This […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report Looking at Medicare claims data for calendar years 2014 and 2015, the Office of the Inspector General has concluded that more than $10 billion of the $18.4 billion paid in CY2015 for healthcare services to Medicare beneficiaries in their homes was “improper.” The use of […]
By the Visiting Nurse Associations of America In response to the June [2016] report by the HHS Office of Inspector General, the Visiting Nurse Associations of America issued the following statement. VNAA appreciates the Office of Inspector General’s identification of characteristics of potentially fraudulent home health claims. The Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report On June 23, Judge Michael L. Rankin of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Civil Division, declared null and void the October, 2015 dismissal of Joanne Cunningham and Laurie Neander from the National Association for Home Care Board of Directors. The lawsuit was […]
From the July 15 edition of ASAP, a weekly publication of the Home Care Association of New York State: In January 2016, HCA commenced litigation against the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), NAHC’s Board Chair, its President and CEO, and outside legal counsel, for violating the NAHC bylaws when they illegally attempted in October 2015 […]
