Stef Tasca has 20+ years of sales and marketing leadership in the DME, pharmaceutical & automotive industries

WASHINGTON—Stef Tasca was named vice president of marketing and commercialization of New Hampshire Medical Supply with locations in Washington D.C. and Maryland.

Tasca joined New Hampshire Medical Supply with more than 20 years of sales and marketing leadership in the durable medical equipment, pharmaceutical and automotive industries from her latest role as executive director of marketing and managed care contracting with Hart Medical Equipment.

The purpose of the letter is to sound the alarm for CMS about the risks associated with implementing additional rate cuts to Medicare home health.

WASHINGTON—The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (the Partnership) submitted a pre-comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 28 warning that the CY 2024 HH PPS P

Homecare agency removed black & hispanic home health aides from assignments to accommodate racial preferences of clients, federal agency charges

NEW YORK–ACARE HHC Inc., doing business as Four Seasons Licensed Home Health Care Agency (“Four Seasons”), a Brooklyn-based company that provides its clients with home health aides, violated federal law by removing aides from their work assignments due to their race and national origin to accommodate client preferences, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The briefing covered new research which highights the quality-of-life and cost savings value of the Medicare Hospice Benefit

WASHINGTON—The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), and NORC at the University of Chicago presented a Congressional briefing on new research that highlights the quality-of-life and cost savings value that the Medicare Hospice Benefit brings to pati

The Breast Cancer Patient Equity Act would provide Medicare coverage of custom breast prostheses to breast cancer survivors

WATERLOO, Iowa—U.S. Representatives Judy Chu (D-CA) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) have reintroduced the bipartisan H.R. 4779: Breast Cancer Patient Equity Act, which would provide Medicare coverage of custom breast prostheses to breast cancer survivors. Since most private insurance companies follow Medicare coverage standards, passage of this legislation would allow hundreds of thousands of women each year to choose a custom prosthesis after a mastectomy.