Home Health & Hospice Week
Long-Term Care Giant Makes Home Care Buy
Long-term care giant Kindred Healthcare Inc. has made another home care acquisition, this time in Massachusetts. Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred will buy Synergy Home Health Care Inc. with locations in Marlborough and Weymouth, serving the Boston area, for undisclosed terms. Synergy has annual revenues of about $5 million, Kindred says in a release. Kindred's Peoplefirst HomeCare and Hospice currently provides hospice services in Massachusetts as well as home health and hospice services in Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, Ohio, and Utah, the company notes. Kindred bought Ohio locations last year (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XIX, No. 39) and West Coast operations earlier this year (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XX, No. 30). "We are excited about the opportunities provided by our growing home health and hospice business to expand our continuum of post-acute care services and to continue the care for our patients and residents in several of our key cluster markets," Kindred CEO Paul Diaz says in the release.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Survey & Certification:
Top Survey Changes You Can't Afford To Miss
Appendix B may not be on the CMS SOM website, but it's still in effect. [...] - Training:
9 Tips To Ace The New Survey Interview Requirement
Get out of the office to practice your employees' survey interviews. If interviews of your [...] - Hospice:
Ready, Set, Elect Your Hospice Cap Method
Choices differ for this year versus next year. At least one HHH MAC is ready [...] - Human Resources:
Run A Successful Suggestion Program
You know your workers have good ideas, but the suggestion box is always empty. Get [...] - Industry Note:
Keep Your Eye On The Congressional Super Committee
Fate for home care copay may be close at hand. Influential legislation to cut your [...] - Industry Note:
Incorrect G Code Adjustments, National Provider Identifier Suspensions Hound Home Care Providers
A few different claims system glitches might have held up your claims, but those problems [...] - Industry Note:
Obama Administration Drops Long-Term Care Insurance Initiative
Don't count on the CLASS Act to increase your home care census any time soon. [...] - Industry Note:
New Hospice ABN Required By Jan. 1
Beginning Jan. 1, hospices must use the new 2011 version of their Advance Beneficiary Notice [...] - Industry Note:
Grouper, HAVEN Updates Due To ICD-9 Codes Posted
You should have begun using updated ICD-9 diagnosis codes this month, and your grouper software [...] - Industry Note:
OIG Shines Spotlight On $1.2M Hospice Was Overpaid
More evidence that the feds are putting hospices in their oversight crosshairs: a new report [...] - Industry Note:
Don't Substitute Therapy Asst. For Home Health Aides
Don't be so quick to substitute a therapist assistant for a home health aide when [...] - Industry Note:
Long-Term Care Giant Makes Home Care Buy
Long-term care giant Kindred Healthcare Inc. has made another home care acquisition, this time in [...] - Industry Note:
Reimbursement, Regulatory Woes Cause HH Closures
Tighter Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement is causing some home care providers to close, and the [...]
