DUBLIN, Ohio—Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) announced the U.S. launch of its Kangaroo OMNI Enteral Feeding Pump, designed to help provide enteral feeding patients with more options to meet their personalized needs throughout their enteral feeding journey.
SPARTANBURG, South Carolina—RedSail Technologies announced an enhanced user experience for customers of its product, DocuTrack, thanks to a partnership with Mediprocity. The new DocuTrack interface offers Mediprocity features that Redsail said provide instant, HIPAA-secure collaboration among various health care professionals—including pharmacy technicians, pharmacists, nurse teams prescribers and determination of needs (DONs).
SACRAMENTO, California—The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) announced securing a nearly $100,000 settlement to resolve a lawsuit filed against Cambrian Homecare, Inc. (Cambrian Homecare) in July over the company’s alleged failure to report employee pay data.
NEW YORK—Firmament, a provider of structured equity and debt capital solutions to small- and medium-sized enterprises, announced an investment in Prime Providers ("Prime" or the "Company"), to support the Company's acquisition of Right Choice In-Home Care ("Right Choice"). Prime is a home-based health care organization providing private-duty nursing, applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy and related services to patients across California.
WHITMORE LAKE, Michigan—Trace Medical, a provider of advanced respiratory rentals and biomedical services, has announced a long-term distribution agreement with Outset Medical to rent the Tablo Hemodialysis System to home medical equipment (HME) providers.
As part of this agreement, Trace Medical will leverage its national distribution network to offer HME providers exclusive access to rent Tablo and meet the growing demand of dialysis patients seeking treatment at home.
WASHINGTON—The Halifax Group (Halifax), a middle market private equity firm that partners with management to invest in market-leading companies, announced that it has agreed to acquire the Worldwide Home Care division of Sodexo, (company), including its home care subsidiaries in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Brazil.
The Cigna Group, headquartered in Connecticut, has agreed to pay $172,294,350 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting and failing to withdraw inaccurate and untruthful diagnosis codes for its Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in order to increase its payments from Medicare.
DALLAS—Elara Caring, a full-scale, multi-state home health provider of clinical and personalized services, has acquired American Family Home Health, a 35-person, privately owned skilled home health care provider in Huntley, Illinois, within Winnebago County.
MALSCH, Germany—Sunrise Medical, a provider of advanced assistive mobility solutions, announced its strategic acquisition of Ride Designs, a provider of custom seating systems for wheelchair riders. This acquisition marks an expansion of Sunrise Medical's custom seating offerings, clinical expertise and service capabilities.
The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) added another home medical equipment (HME) industry veteran to the team. Stephanie Legree was named to a newly created project manager position. Legree has more than 20 years of experience at Binson’s Home Health Care in progressively responsible positions, including her most recent role as co-director of the business office and vice president of government affairs.
NORTHFIELD, Illinois—Medline celebrated its now fully operational 710,000-square-foot distribution center in Salt Lake City, Utah. To commemorate the milestone, local dignitaries, Cairo Wasfy, chief resource officer of Ardent Health Services, representatives from Medline and other major hospitals and health care providers in the region participated in an event, including a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony and facility tours.
ATLANTA—Integra Partners announced the addition of Trella
MICHIGAN—A federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan convicted Yogesh Pancholi for orchestrating a $2.8 million health care fraud and wire fraud conspiracy and engaging in money laundering, aggravated identity theft and witness tampering.
BOSTON—The owner of Conclave Media (Conclave) and Nationwide Health Advocates (Nationwide) pleaded guilty in connection with a $44 million telemedicine fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME), including orthotics such as back and knee braces and genetic tests.
FREEHOLD, New Jersey—Avalon GloboCare Corp.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Permobil announced the successful acquisition of PDG Mobility, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The acquisition adds expertise and a range of tilt-in-space products to Permobil’s portfolio of complex rehabilitation solutions. Permobil said PDG is known for products with high durability, unique and improved functionality and attractive design, as well as customer support.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—National Seating & Mobility (NSM), a provider of comprehensive mobility solutions, continues to expand the company’s Momentum Academy education series with more events hosted this year across the country to educate clinical partners, including physical therapists, occupational therapists and other health care providers about best practices in mobility solutions and complex rehab technology (CRT).
PHILADELPHIA—Medical Guardian, a provider of personal emergency response systems (PERS) and health care engagement services, announced the launch of the newest product in its lineup of medical alert solutions—the MGMini Lite. Weighing less than an ounce, this device is designed to address the dynamic and evolving needs of aging adults and caregivers.
WATERLOO, Iowa—VGM Group, Inc. recently announced that the entire team in its human resources department has achieved Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) certification. MHFA is a program of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Similar to physical First Aid and CPR, MHFA helps people assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis until professional assistance is obtained or the crisis is resolved.
WASHINGTON—Legislation was introduced Sept.
