Home healthcare support firm receives $25M in funding
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 16, 2021
The ongoing threat of COVID-19 helped Tomorrow Health, a New York company focused on home healthcare, secure $25 million in funding to expand
Massachusetts AG reaches $10M settlement with home healthcare provider
By
Joe Jancsurak
Dec 21, 2020
The office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has reached a $10 million settlement with CEO George Kiongera and his firm, Lawrence, MA-based Maestro-Connections Health Systems, which allegedly...
Durable medical equipment provider charged in $10M healthcare fraud scheme
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 04, 2021
A Perfect Fit for You, a Morehead City, NC, maker of durable medical equipment — including powered wheelchairs, powered air flotation beds, osteogenesis stimulator, pneumatic compressor, orthotic braces...
Florida home healthcare firms linked to $308M in fraudulent claims in federal crackdown
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 21, 2021
A massive federal crackdown on healthcare fraud in Florida last week snared 52 providers including home healthcare firms.
Home healthcare owner defrauds Medicaid of $1M, receives 5-year sentence
By
Joe Jancsurak
Dec 04, 2020
The owner and operator of an Atlanta-based home healthcare provider has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for defrauding the Medicaid program out of almost $1 million.
Pittsburgh home healthcare agency to pay $1.6M for failing to pay overtime
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 08, 2021
Christian Home Healthcare, a Pittsburgh home healthcare agency, is required to pay more than $1.6 million in back wages and damages. The agency, named for its owner, India Christian, misclassified and...
Bayada, which must pay $17M fine, undermined the integrity of the healthcare system: DOJ
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 10, 2021
The Department of Justice accused Bayada Health and Bayada Home Care of undermining the integrity of the healthcare system in a kickback scheme involving two home health agencies in Arizona.
LHC Group invests $20M in local nursing program to create pipeline of healthcare workers
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 26, 2021
National home care provider LHC Group announced a partnership Thursday with the University of Louisiana that could give it an edge in recruiting and retaining healthcare workers over the next decade.
Move to healthcare at home helps to empower patients, former CMS administrator says
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 24, 2021
Moving healthcare into the home is helping shift the balance of power from healthcare systems to patients, former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D., said Monday....
Peer-to-Peer: How ConcertoCare has tapped technology, analytics and PACE to upend home healthcare
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 17, 2021
In January, ConcertoCare a tech-enabled, risk-based home healthcare provider, named Julian Harris, M.D., to lead the company into a post-COVID-19 landscape.