According to a report in a Detroit business journal, two Michigan VNAs have been sold to King’s Pointe Capital LLC, a Toledo investment group. VNA of Southeast Michigan and Visiting Nurse Home Support, affiliate corporations of Oak Park-based nonprofit Visiting Nurse Association Inc. have been in operation since 1898. Details about these sales and the […]
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is urgently requesting input from every provider agency regarding the potential impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that certain employers pay a penalty when they do not provide a qualified health plan to employees. NAHC’s efforts to alert the home […]
CMS has scheduled the next Home Health, Hospice & Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Open Door Forum. Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm, EDT Contact: Dial 800-837-1935 Conference ID: 76245818
After a four-year partnership, The Riverside Company has sold HEALTHCAREfirst to Pamlico Capital. Known as an operations-focused buyout house, Riverside is a private equity firm that had already exited from nine other companies during 2012.
Statement of the problem as we see it Many hospital software companies have home health care subsidiaries. Some, such as Allscripts, Cerner and McKesson, take home care seriously and invest substantial resources into software development, implementation and training services, maintaining regulatory compliance and providing world class technical support to their home care and hospice customers. […]
The U.S. Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General has released a scathing report of home health billing practices. To place some controls on the degree of fraud and abuse it detected, OIG called for CMS to impose a moratorium on opening new home health care agencies in Texas and Florida, where it says […]
It can no longer be said that major HIPAA disasters happen to other people, people in the news, not “good agencies like ours.” They did happen to people you know, people just like you, just last month. If it could happen to Northwestern Memorial Hospital Hospice in Chicago and Hartford Hospital and VNA HealthCare in […]
