Home health news and information

Healthcare employers added nearly twice as many jobs in June as they did in May, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' preliminary and seasonally adjusted figures.
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Publicly traded home health companies continued to take a beating in the markets Monday because of the CMS' June 27 proposal to drop payments by the maximum amount suggested under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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A series of rebasing and coding adjustments from the CMS would cause home health agencies to see a 1.5% reduction in their Medicare payments for 2014.
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Kindred Healthcare is selling eight nursing centers to Signature Healthcare for about $49 million.
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The message: Volumes under reform will be lower than expected, but additional Medicare cuts are all but assured.
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Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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Home health and hospice companies weathered a tough first quarter that was evident in bottom-line results that could not keep pace with last year.
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The CMS has no estimate of how much federal money is lost to fraud in the Medicare program most plagued with improper payments, and the agency's top integrity official was unable to tell lawmakers when they might see such a number.
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Those awaiting the Obama administration's decision on whether to guarantee home-care workers at least the federal minimum wage and overtime pay could be in for a long summer.
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Joe Carlson's article "Safe at home” understates the number of direct-care workers in the home-care industry. He cites a government source, which tracks home health aides but does not include...
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