Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Dwindling Referrals Lead To County HHA Sale
Published on Fri Sep 23, 2016
The latest county-run home health agency to go on the market is in North Carolina. Harnett County Home Health is up for bid, reports the Dunn Daily Record newspaper.
Why? Many local assisted living facilities that formerly used county home care services were bought by larger corporations that used their own agencies, a county official told the Record. And Medicare requirements such as face-to-face documentation reduced referrals. The agency’s case load went from about 300 five years ago to 100 currently, the official said.
The number of county-run HHAs in the state has decreased from about two dozen in 2003 to as low as five now, according to the newspaper.
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