Danielle Pierotti, RN, PhD, CENP, will replace the departing Tracey Moorhead, with the title “Interim Leader.”
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.
Dr. Jacques Roy certified more patients for Medicare home health eligibility than any other physician’s clinic in the country. Most of them received no services though millions of dollars in claims were generated, and paid, in their names. By the time Roy’s fraudulent operation was exposed and he was indicted this week, 78 home health care companies had their Medicare billing privileges suspended and 500 others were named as participants in the scheme.
Sandata Technologies announced today the appointment of healthcare technology industry veteran Tom Underwood as Chief Executive Officer, replacing Harold Blue, who will become Vice Chairman of the company’s board.
Lively discussions are not new within home care’s small telephony vendor community. Never before, however, has a controversy spawned the birth of an entire new organization to address it, nor has it led to such cooperation among competitors. As state Medicaid officials finally begin to appreciate the advantages of Electronic Visit Verification, the way four of them are going about it has raised some serious concerns.
Home Care Technology Report has learned that HealthCareFIRST, a home care and hospice software and services company based in Springfield, Missouri, has acquired 100% of the stock of CareFacts, Inc., a home care and hospice software vendor in St. Paul, Minnesota.
At the top of three regulatory stories this week is one that appeared on the news wires just before this issue went to press. The Federal H.E.A.T. strike force, a joint effort of HHS, the FBI, the federal Department of Justice and the DEA, arrested 94 people so far in Miami, Baton Rouge, Detroit and Brooklyn. The number is expected to grow as more arrests are announced throughout the weekend.
In a related announcement, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that health care fraud fighters in the state of Florida will now have additional funding to help find potential fraud and abuse in the state’s Medicaid program through use of Medicaid claims data.
In a surprise announcement Monday, telephony vendor Sandata LLC (formerly Sandata Technologies Inc.) announced that it has agreed to acquire the home healthcare assets of Health Systems Solutions, Inc., the New York- and Florida-based software company that provides products such as VividNet, The Analyzer and benchmarking services from the former HQS.
The way most people store their signed and notarized Advance Directive (AD) documents makes it unlikely the documents will be at hand when needed. No one carries the document with them everywhere they go, nor is anyone standing near their home filing cabinet or bank safe deposit box when they come face to face with end of life decisions. On February 1, a new technology will be introduced to solve that problem.
After 30 years, Fred and Ellen Caruso are handing over the reins of the company they founded, Caruso Group International, to a new CEO. Fred Caruso will retire, Ellen will become a fulltime lobbyist, and Sarah Myers will move from Oregon to Denver to join the company as president and CEO.
