TORONTO, Canada (December 20, 2022)—Ability Members Group, one of Canada’s networks of independent home medical equipment providers, has announced the addition of Starkmans Health Care Depot to its membership. A Toronto institution for over nine decades, Starkmans began as a pharmacy and grew into a key destination for health care products ranging from ostomy, home safety and mobility aids to rehab and home medical equipment.
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WASHINGTON (December 20, 2022)—U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra announced the annual release of the Department's National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease: 2022 Update - PDF.
WASHINGTON (December 20, 2022)—Most of the providers who were enrolled in Medicare under COVID-19-related waivers and then had their enrollments revoked were durable medical equipment, prosthetics and orthotics (DMEPOS) suppliers, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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HACKENSACK, New Jersey (December 16, 2022)—Executive Home Care Holdings, a Riverside-backed holding company that represents Executive Home Care and Assisted Living Locators, an
WASHINGTON (December 16, 2022)—A New York woman has been arrested for allegedly offering and paying illegal health care kickbacks and money laundering, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reports.
AUSTIN, Texas (December 15, 2022)—Texas-based Superior HealthPlan today announced a home health partnership with MedArrive, a company that offers mobile-integrated care management services.
WASHINGTON (December 15, 2022)—The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) discussed a proposal to reduce the 2023 Medicare base payment rate for home health agencies by 7% during the commission’s annual December meeting, the National Association for Homecare and Hospice (NAHC) reports. NAHC said that would virtually guarantee reduced access to home health care.
DALLAS (December 13, 2022)—Elara Caring, a multi-state home health care provider of clinical and personalized services, is working with ServiceNow to empower its caregiver workforce to deliver vital services to patients and clients wherever they call home.
WASHINGTON (December 13, 2022)—The federal system meant to stop health care business owners and executives from repeatedly bilking government health programs fails to do so, a Kaiser Health News (KHN) investigation has found.
That means people are once again tapping into Medicaid, Medicare, and other taxpayer-funded federal health programs after being legally banned because of fraudulent or illegal behavior.
LOS ANGELES (December 13, 2022)—Blue Shield of California members living in Southern California now have access to additional medical care services for a range of illnesses and injuries in the comfort and convenience of their homes through a collaboration with DispatchHealth.
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, and NASHVILLE, Tennessee (December 13, 2022)—Amedisys, Inc., a provider of home health, hospice, personal care and high-acuity care, has closed on its joint venture with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to provide home health services in Searcy and Little Rock.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (December 13, 2022)—Sunshine Health is partnering with United HomeCare (UHC) to recruit and train home health aides in south Florida to ensur
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (December 9, 2022)—After more than five years of research and development to build the wheelchair technology company LUCI, company officials announced they were opening its platform to leading developers and research partners through a new program called LUCI Sandbox.
LUCI is a technology platform for wheelchair robotics, research, and user health made up of a combination of proprietary sensors, advanced software and a collection of patented inventions.
OWINGS MILLS, Maryland (December 9, 2022)—Theresa “Terri” McLeod is the 2022 recipient of the Jim Newberry Award for Extraordinary Service given by The Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC).
One November afternoon, Chris Espedal asked a group of caregivers—all of whom work with people who have cognitive impairments, behavioral health issues, or complex physical needs—to describe what happens when their work becomes too much to bear. The participants, 13 caregivers from all over California, who had gathered in a Zoom room, said they experienced nausea, anxiety, shortness of breath, elevated heart rates, and other telltale signs of stress.
WATERLOO, Iowa (December 8, 2022)—Harold Davis will be named director of surveyor services for the Healthcare Quality Association on Accreditation (HQAA), according to an announcement from Rhonda Pearce, executive director of HQAA.
NEW YORK (December 8, 2022)—Home-based health care technology company Tomorrow Health announced it has fully automated the order lifecycle for the full spectrum of durable medical equipment (DME) codes.