HomeCare News

SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick—Kindred Home Care Inc., an independent homecare provider located in Canada, announced that its local Newfoundland subsidiary, TLC Nursing and Home Care Services Limited (TLC), has acquired the Helping Hands group of companies—comprising Helping Hands Home Care Services Ltd., A Better Living Home Care Inc. and In Home Health Care Services Ltd. Financial terms were not disclosed.

SEATTLE—Frazier Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MatrixCare from Resmed.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—In its proposed home health payment rule released last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included changes to home infusion therapies that advocates say is a positive step but not a solution to the broader challenges facing home infusion in Medicare.

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pennsylvania—AdaptHealth, a provider of home-based medical devices including CPAP machines, has revealed it was hit by a cyberattack resulting in data exfiltration last month, yet stressed that vital customer data such as payment card information was not compromised by the breach.

BENGALURU, India—Netsmart, a healthcare information technology platform company with a suite of solutions and services, announced the expansion of its Bengaluru, India, office, doubling its footprint to 60,000 square feet at the Godrej Centre in Hebbal.

DALLAS—Avid Health at Home announced it has completed its eighth tuck-in acquisition with the purchase of Tech Medical Home Care Services (Tech Med).

Avid Health, a provider of at-home and community-based homecare services, said it is continuing its expansion in the midwestern United States with its acquisition of Tech Med, which is based on Kentucky and Ohio.

BROOKLYN, New York—A massive settlement will be awarded to more than 200,000 family caregivers throughout the state of New York. A federal judge granted preliminary approval of a proposed $162 million wage-and-hour class action lawsuit involving caregivers, aka personal assistants, who were paid through Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), the statewide fiscal intermediary for New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee—Compassus, a national provider of integrated home-based care services, announced it is celebrating 20 years of its work in the industry. 

"This milestone reflects two decades of providing compassionate, person-centered care to patients and families across the country as the provider looks to build the next generation of care delivered in the home," the company said in a released statement.

PLANO, Texas—Heart to Heart Hospice, a national private provider of hospice care, has partnered with CyberMaxx to in the hopes of strengthening the organization's cybersecurity capabilities and further protecting sensitive patient and employee information.

CyberMaxx provides healthcare-focused cybersecurity expertise, continuous security monitoring, endpoint detection and response capabilities, investigation support and defined escalation pathways.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida—Novitas Solutions, Inc. has been awarded the Jurisdiction H (JH) Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) contract by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The contract covers the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Novitas has held the JH contract since 2012.

WASHINGTON—Members of Congress are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to consider the impact of including some items in the revived competitive bidding program. In a committee report accompanying a broad 2027 appropriations bill, lawmakers asked the agency to report back on how bidding would affect access to medically appropriate devices, the American Association for Homecare said in a recent newsleter. 

MIRAMAR, Florida—VITAS Healthcare, a national provider of hospice and palliative care, announced the promotion of Bryan Wysong to chief operations officer (COO). As executive vice president and COO, Wysong will lead companywide operations across VITAS, overseeing hospice care delivery, high acuity services, operational performance, quality improvement, home medical equipment and palliative care services. 

NEW YORK—Parachute Health, the order management platform for home medical equipment (HME) providers, announced the appointment of Heather Yi as vice president of customer success. Yi joins Parachute with more than two decades of experience following an almost 16-year tenure at Brightree to lead its customer success team and deepen the company's partnerships with HME providers nationwide.

BEVERLY, Massachusetts—Inogen, Inc., a medical technology company offering respiratory products for use in the homecare setting, announced the appointment of Andy Reding to the newly created role of chief operating officer, effective Monday, July 6. Reding will be responsible for driving revenue and operational performance, aligning cross-functional priorities and helping ensure Inogen’s strategy is translated into efficient and measurable outcomes.

Note: This article has been updated to include industry comment and may be updated again. 

WASHINGTON—Overall Medicare payments to home health providers would increase 2.4%, or $420 million overall, under a proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 1. 

IRVING, Texas—Vizient announced the release of the 2026 Impact of Change forecast, which highlighted how shifts in care delivery, patient complexity and site-of-care access challenges are reshaping healthcare utilization. The 10-year forecast projects continued growth in outpatient services as more care shifts to ambulatory sites, creating new challenges for capacity planning, workforce strategy and care coordination.

NEW YORK—Hera, a senior care management company, announced $27 million in Series A funding to continue building Hera's AI platform. The company said this funding will help it expand into California, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, with the goal of going live in 25-plus states by year-end. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) with continued participation from Accel and IA Ventures and other parties.

NORCROSS, Georgia—HomeSight, a division of global connectivity leader Vantiva (Euronext Paris: VANTI), announced that it has partnered with Comfort Keepers, a provider of in-home care for seniors across North America. The companies said together they aim to bring HomeSight to Comfort Keepers’ franchises in the United States and Canada as part of its new Comfort360 ecosystem of connected care services and senior solutions.

Fireworks, festivities and gatherings are Fourth of July traditions, but they can present difficulties for individuals living with dementia-related illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease. As Independence Day approaches, the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is encouraging caregivers to follow the S.A.F.E. steps to help loved ones living with dementia on Independence Day. 

BEER-SHEVA, Israel—Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have released research that found that how quickly an older adult can execute a voluntary step—especially when distracted (such as perfoming cognitive task at the same time)—may serve as a valuable clinical predictor of survival.