Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
VNA Shutters Medicare HHA Business
Published on Fri Aug 16, 2013
A 45-year-old nonprofit VNA is closing its home health agency unit due to lower reimbursement, increased regulatory demands and stiff marketplace competition, reports the El Paso Times.
The Visiting Nurse Association Home Healthcare and Hospice of El Paso will continue operating its hospice, private duty and Medicaid divisions, it told the Texas newspaper. Its 180 home care patients will either finish their stays or be transferred to another agency, the VNA says.
"Home health care is a very crowded field in this area with about 140 agencies providing those services," VNA CEO Joe Wardy told the paper.
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