Enhabit Home Health & Hospice (NYSE: EHAB) is the newest face on the home health public market.
External factors have made it far from a red-carpet welcome.
Its cost per visit shot… Read More
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer has been waiting to helm her own entity for a while now.
After a long period of Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) exploring strategic alte… Read More
Staying ahead on recruiting and Medicare Advantage (MA) strategy are two top priorities for Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) over the next few years.
Despite a rocky start on the public market e… Read More
Recruiting and retention woes are the obvious, above-the-surface topics when it comes to home-based care providers’ staffing. But the below-surface trends could be just as important, a… Read More
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer is a lifelong leader who never set out to be one.
When she gives her best advice to younger people, she draws directly from the path that b… Read More
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Addus acquires another home health provider
In August, Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) said that it was looking to make some la… Read More
After completing its spinoff from Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) in July, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) is full speed ahead on expanding its home health operations.
To do that, Enha… Read More
Some of the largest home health companies in the country have had the chance now to voice opinions on the final payment rule for 2023. Most all of them are dissatisfied it.
But what is u… Read More
Yet another large home health company is touting its agreements with managed care plans. This time, it’s Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB).
Last week, it was Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) un… Read More
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The 2023 home health final payment rule was released Monday.
With a positive market-basket update for 2023 but also jarring long-term… Read More
Even given the home health reimbursement environment, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) still plans to be acquisitive in the home health market as a way to stay on its growth strategy track.
It m… Read More
Enhabit, Inc. (NYSE: EHAB), a leading national home health and hospice provider, announced today its recent placements in Fortune’s “30 Best Large Workplaces in He… Read More
BrightSpring Health Services – a large home- and community-based services provider – is not going through with its planned IPO, according to an S-1 filing.
Backed by the PE fi… Read More
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) leaders feel confident that the company will continue to scale. But they also recognize that forcing payer understanding on the value of home health care will have… Read More
Amid the ongoing shift toward value-based care — and away from fee-for-service payment models — providers in senior care are still navigating in the dark, especially when it come… Read More
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Enhabit purchases Southwest Florida Home Care’s Fort Myers location
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) has acquired the Fort Myers, Florida… Read More
The quotes that cracked this Home Health Care News list were not only memorable, frank and informative, but they also paint a complete picture of the home-based care landscape in 2022.
Th… Read More
Home health care’s 2022 was dimmed by the dark cloud of Medicare rate cuts. That cloud still hangs overhead in 2023.
To weather the storm, providers are scrambling to find answers t… Read More
Elara Caring adds Dr. Kevin Henning to its leadership team
Elara Caring — one of the largest home health providers in the U.S. — has named Dr. Kevin Henning as its chief med… Read More
The last year or so at Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) has been about finding its footing – as a stand-alone company, and one that’s publicly traded.
But moving forward, growth will… Read More
Back in October, Hospice and Home Care of Juneau closed after 20 years in business.
A month earlier, Trinity Health At Home in Springfield, Illinois, shut its doors and laid off 60 employ… Read More
In home-based care, persistent headwinds are forcing leaders to employ new strategies. Those strategies include searching for new partnerships to drive efficiency; looking outside the indust… Read More
New details — and a name — have surfaced behind home health titan April Anthony’s new venture.
Anthony is the former CEO and founder of the home health division of wh… Read More
DALLAS (AP) – DALLAS (AP) – Enhabit Inc. (EHAB) reported fourth-quarter net income of $7.7 million on Tuesday.
On a per-share basis, the Dallas-based company said its net incom… Read More
Net service revenue, net income and home health admissions all decreased year over year for Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) in the fourth quarter.
And it’s not just the headwinds that ar… Read More
Scott Beard has been appointed to the position of Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) for Maxwell Healthcare Associates (MHA), the industry’s leading post-acute consulting firm. Beard wi… Read More
The $5.4 billion transaction between UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), its subsidiary Optum and home health giant LHC Group (Nasdaq: LHCG) has closed.
In filings with the U.S. Securities an… Read More
Home-based care leaders are constantly looking to other industries to find inspiration.
Take the airline industry, for example.
Despite some of its warts, the convenience of looking up… Read More
Home-based care’s deal volume remained flat in the fourth quarter of 2022, ending a slow year overall for transactions.
The quarter saw at least 24 completed transactions, right on… Read More
Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) wants to continue to grow its personal care and home health segments, the former being its largest segment and the latter being its smallest. … Read More
After seeing a 4% decline in traditional Medicare beneficiaries in the markets the company serves, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) is working to build back up its home health fee-for-service busin… Read More
In order to manage its home health visits appropriately, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) hopes to have anywhere from 0% to 10% fee-for-service discounts when negotiating managed care episodic cont… Read More
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This past winter didn’t have the COVID-19 surge that the previous one did. And yet, the referral rejection rate reached an all-time… Read More
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) is soon to be one of the only independent home health companies remaining on the public market. And its struggle to turn its business into a Medicare Advantage-frie… Read More
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Another one of the largest home health companies is likely to lose its independence soon.
And the potential combination of Option Car… Read More
Home health stakeholders are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address an alleged forecast error in the home health market basket for 2021 and 2022.
Broadly… Read More
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A local restaurant may need three cooks, two cashiers and a manager to get by on a daily basis. It’s a simple equation to figure ou… Read More
Just before the beginning of an investor presentation on Wednesday afternoon, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer joked to the moderator at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference tha… Read More
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) disclosed Monday that UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum submitted an acquisition bid. That makes for a competition between Optum and Amedisys’ c… Read More
Last year, the Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) received part of a $2.3 million grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to bring the Age-Friendly Health Systems moveme… Read More
An investor in Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) is calling on the home health and hospice company to consider strategic alternatives to operating as a standalone business. And those alternatives, t… Read More
Home-based care insiders are looking on as outsiders come in and sweep up top assets within their industry.
There’s the payers, like UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Humana (NYSE… Read More
Home health providers are in a challenging operating environment, despite their services being more in demand than ever. Their leaders are trying to grapple with those two realities.
The… Read More
Fortis Home Health & Hospice appoints new CEO
Fortis Home Health & Hospice has named Rob Radics as the company’s new CEO.
Radics joins Fortis with nearly three decades of… Read More
After another poor proposed payment rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), home health leaders are trying to focus on the positive parts of the business they&rsquo… Read More
While referrals to home health care are ballooning, providers are rejecting them at an unprecedented rate.
As hospitals scramble to place patients in the hands of appropriate post-acute… Read More
Home-based care has come a long way since 2020.
But for the industry to rise to the next level and better leverage innovative technologies, a greater degree of interoperability is needed… Read More
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB), one of the largest freestanding home health and hospice companies in the market, intends to launch a strategic review process that could ultimately end in another… Read More
On Wednesday — ahead of its earnings call with investors and stakeholders — Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) announced plans to launch a strategic review process.
Specifically, the… Read More
August 15, 2023 – In a surprising turn of events, Victory Capital Management Inc. has significantly reduced its position in Enhabit, Inc. (NYSE:EHAB) during the first quarter of this y… Read More
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) has officially launched a review of strategic alternatives, it announced late Wednesday. That review could ultimately lead to a sale, merger or “other strateg… Read More
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) home health proposed payment rule – which would slash rates by 2.2%, or an estimated $375 million less compared to 20… Read More
The Optum-Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) deal continues to inch forward after the latter’s shareholders voted to approve the merger agreement on Friday.
Amedisys stockholders voted t… Read More
AccentCare announced late Thursday that its CEO, Steve Rodgers, would be stepping down.
Rodgers is a long-time veteran in the industry, and to see him go is large news in itself.
&ld… Read More
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first announced the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model in late July, there was excitement and an eagerness to l… Read More
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In December 2020, Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) announced it was pursuing strategic alternatives for its home health and hospi… Read More
The home- and community-based services provider BrightSpring Health Services once again is planning to go public.
Backed by the PE firm KKR, BrightSpring originally planned to raise $80… Read More
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Over the years, payer innovation has become a larger part of the overall strategy at home health companies. As such, the leaders that are… Read More
Earlier this week, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) stock tumbled after the company entered into a limited waiver agreement with Wells Fargo Bank (NYSE: WFC).
“As we work with our advisor… Read More