FRESNO, California—Sunrise Medical, a mobility product manufacturer and designer, introduced the “Quickie QS5 X,” its new lightweight folding wheelchair. The chair’s features seek to provide transportation and stability benefits for users.
NEW YORK—HHAeXchange, a homecare management solutions company, and state Medicaid programs, have announced this year’s “Caregiving Champions” award winners, in celebration of National Homecare and Hospice Month.
TAMPA, Florida—Internal Healthcare Group, a senior referral service, announced its virtual platform launch, which aims to connect seniors and families with care providers. Internal Healthcare Group intends to address the gap in personalized care options for seniors by providing a digital platform aimed at enabling families to find and connect with care providers.
DUBLIN, Ohio—Cardinal Health, a distributor of pharmaceuticals and specialty products, announced it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire two companies, GI Alliance (GIA) and Advanced Diabetes Supply Group (ADSG), in an effort to accelerate its growth, patient care efforts and its at-home solutions company.
BALTIMORE, Maryland—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2025 premiums, deductibles and coinsurance amounts for the Medicare Part A and Part B programs, as well as its 2025 Medicare Part D income-related monthly adjustment amounts.
CMS’ 2025 updates to Medicare Parts A, B and D amounts are listed below.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana—Amedisys Inc., a health care at home company aiming to deliver home health, hospice and acuity care services, reported its financial results for its third quarter of 2024, which include the three-month and nine-month periods that ended Sept. 30. Additionally, the company said due to its pending merger with UnitedHealth Group Inc., it will not conduct a quarterly earnings call to discuss the third quarter results.
INDIANAPOLIS—The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has alleged that home health care company owner Hahn March violated federal wage laws and withheld $86,000 in wages by using improper pay practices at her two Indianapolis, Indiana, companies: Signal Health Group Inc. and SHG Employee Leasing Company. In 2018, federal investigators cited March for not paying overtime wages to employees at her then-owned company, Aging and Disabled Home Healthcare.
PLANO, Texas—Heart to Heart Hospice, a hospice care service provider, will recognize National Hospice Week from Monday, Nov. 11 through Friday, Nov. 15, a week that was designated by the National Alliance for Care at Home as a time to focus on the value of end-of-life care and the caregivers who serve patients and their families.
BOSTON—A new study led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health revealed Medicare Advantage (MA) plans receive billions of federal dollars for enrolling veterans who receive no Medicare services.
BOSTON—Mass General Brigham (MGB), a not-for-profit integrated health care system, has announced that it has collaborated with its Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham, and the New England Center and Home fo
