ORANGE COUNTY, California—OneWell Health Care, a homecare provider of personalized home and community-based services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), announced the launch of its independent living services in Orange County under the Orange County Regional Center (OCRC).
BOSTON—Rendever, a provider of virtual reality solutions for aging seniors and hospice care, has launched a dementia and empathy training program for senior living professionals and caregivers. The interactive training program includes a suite of virtual reality (VR)-based paradigms that Rendever said are designed to empower individuals to understand, support and improve their approach to dementia care.
SKOKIE, Illinois—Hospice Tools is pleased to announce that Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP), has re-verified Hospice Tools EMR, awarding it CHAP Verified status for the second consecutive time. This designation is granted to tools and resources used by community-based care providers that, through rigorous inspection, show no roadblocks to executing the CHAP Standards of Excellence and aim to improve the delivery of high quality care.
DALLAS—Homecare HomebaseSM, a software provider for home-based care, has opened nominations for the 2025 Home Care Aide Scholarship Program.
In its latest year, this annual program awards $2,000 scholarships to three homecare aides, honoring their dedication to the homecare industry while helping them further their education, grow professionally and continue building their careers in home-based care.
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—The National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) has released a white paper examining the economic challenges facing home parenteral nutrition (HPN) services. The report, “Ensuring Sustainable Access to Home Parenteral Nutrition (PN): The Cost Crisis and Path Forward,” documents cost trends and reimbursement patterns affecting this therapy.
WASHINGTON—Tom Koutsoumpas, founder and CEO of The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI)—which represents more than 120 nonprofit hospice and palliative care providers serving 20% of the nation’s hospice patients—has authored a guest commentary piece in U.S. News titled, “Everyone Deserves a Dignified Death. But Hospice Care Is Under Threat.”
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia & WASHINGTON—The Research Institute for Home Care (the Institute) and the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) announced they have entered into an affiliation agreement. The companies said the agreement is "to strengthen and expand research efforts while further unifying the care at home movement." The agreement is effective immediately.
WASHINGTON—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched an oversight initiative to ensure that enrollees in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are United States citizens, U.S. nationals or have a satisfactory immigration status.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—In indictments filed this week by the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, 10 Medicaid providers are accused of stealing a combined $1.9 million from Medicaid.
Nine home health aides and one provider of home-delivered meals face varying felony charges of Medicaid fraud and theft for allegedly billing Medicaid for services they did not provide. Two of the defendants alone account for more than $1.7 million of the alleged fraud.
BOSTON—An Alabama-based doctor has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with an alleged $6 million telemedicine fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) and genetic testing primarily used to detect mutations in genes that could indicate a higher risk of developing certain types of cancers.
