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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.
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.
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.
BOSTON—The attorney general’s office (AGO) of Massachusetts announced that Union Home Health Care Services, a Worcester, Massachusetts-based group adult foster care (GAFC) provider, and its administrator, Bernice Codjia, age 41, pleaded guilty in Worcester Superior Court to charges related to a scheme to defraud MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program, of more than $1.6 million.
MOORESTOWN, New Jersey—BAYADA Home Health Care announced the start of a leadership role transition that will conclude with current Chief Executive Officer David Baiada moving into a new role on the BAYADA Board of Directors upon the appointment of the company’s next CEO.
TEMPE, Arizona—SYNERGY HomeCare announced its first location in West Virginia, SYNERGY HomeCare in Barboursville.
The company is owned and operated by Chris Lowe—a United States Army veteran who went on to earn a finance degree from Marshall University, followed by a Master of Business Administration in health care administration from Ohio University.
REXBURG, Idaho—Activated Insights announced the release of its 16th Annual Benchmarking Report for homecare, home health and hospice.
*This article has been updated to include additional companies not previously listed.
NEW YORK— Several homecare service provider companies ranked highly in the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, an annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
NEW YORK—Judge Frederic Block of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York provisionally approved a settlement agreement reached last month between New Yorkers who lost critical homecare services through the Medicaid-funded Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) and the New York State Department of Health (DOH).
BURKBURNETT, Texas—HomeWell Franchising Inc., the franchisor of national in-home care provider HomeWell Care Services, announced it has accomplished several major milestones
ATLANTA—Trella Health announced it has added Repisodic—a hospital discharge automation platform enabling patient-centered care transitions—to its solution portfolio.
BOSTON—A Canton, Massachusetts, man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare of more than $4 million by submitting claims for durable medical equipment (DME) that was medically unnecessary, not wanted by the Medicare beneficiaries and tainted by kickbacks.
TEMPE, Arizona—SYNERGY HomeCare announced its three newest locations: SYNERGY HomeCare in Temecula, California, SYNERGY HomeCare in Chatsworth, California and SYNERGY HomeCare in Williamsburg, Virginia. The companies will assist residents with non-medical homecare services, such as companion care, personal care and respite care.
PHOENIX—Tango, a provider of post-acute care benefit enablement services, announced a partnership with AmeriHealth Caritas, a provider of Medicaid managed care. With this partnership, tango is now facilitating the delivery of skilled home health care to Medicare Advantage Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) members in the state of Pennsylvania.
BRENTWOOD, Tennessee—Numotion Medical Supply announced the launch of its new ALLY Program, an initiative designed to support individuals who use catheters in managing their bladder health. Whether navigating a new diagnosis or living with a condition for years, ALLY offers resources, education and connection all in one place.
