Long-term care veteran Frank Brown Jr. inducted into Alabama Senior Citizens Hall of Fame … Fitch upgrades Saint John’s Communities, WI’s IDR and rev bonds to ‘BBB’; Outlook...
AMDA leadership weighs in on DEA’s telehealth medicine rules debate
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Jessica R. Towhey
Aaron Dorman
Aug 10, 2023
The DEA may re-evaluate its rules on prescribing controlled substances via telehealth appointments, following a deluge of 38,000 public comments on the initial rulemaking.
Home health, hospice M&A up 20 percent in second quarter
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 27, 2023
Home health and hospice mergers and acquisition activity increased by 20% in the second quarter over the first quarter, but deals were down 14% compared with the second quarter of 2022, according to recently...
Pennant Group acquires home care, hospice companies in Idaho
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 21, 2023
Eagle, ID- based The Pennant Group has acquired Bluebird Home Health, Bluebird Hospice and Bluebird Home Care. The companies provide skilled home health, private duty and hospice services across Southwestern...
State regulations on training, staffing levels affect end-of-life care quality: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 07, 2023
More specific direct care worker training requirements in assisted living communities may help decrease the number of end-of-life care transitions, and more explicit staffing regulations may increase those...
Amedisys receives $3.26 billion all-cash buyout offer from UnitedHealth Group’s Optum unit
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 06, 2023
Home health and hospice provider Amedisys received an unsolicited all-cash, $3.26 billion ($100 per share) offer Monday from UnitedHealth, through its Optum unit, to acquire all of the outstanding shares...
Sharing ownership data good for enforcers, families, researchers, HHS secretary says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 21, 2023
Medicare-certified home health agencies and hospice programs will be subject to additional scrutiny with Thursday’s announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services of the release of ownership...
More news for Wednesday, April 12
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 12, 2023
President Biden signs bill to end public health emergency a month early … Brookdale Senior Living announces ‘favorable’ Q1 financials … PharMerica, BrightSpring data breach ‘does not currently...
Work group tackles ‘smashing barrier’ to hospice for Medicaid-funded assisted living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 27, 2023
A New York Department of Health work group recently began meeting to make recommendations on coordinating hospice care for residents living in the state’s Medicaid-funded assisted living program.
ProMedica sells home health, hospice business to Gentiva for $710 million
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 03, 2023
Toledo, OH-based ProMedica entered a definitive agreement this week to sell the company’s Heartland brand home health and hospice care business to Atlanta-based Gentiva for $710 million.