By Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected five new recovery audit contractors (RACs) and established new rules. RAC audits will undoubtedly resume soon. Performant and Cotiviti were awarded contracts, along with HMS Federal Solutions. A previous RAC auditor, CGI Group, did not bid in the latest round […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher Home Care Technology Report Overland Park, Kansas — October 27, 2016 — Continuing to broaden its scope across the continuum of care, Netsmart announced on Thursday the acquisition of HealthMEDX®, a Missouri-based developer of electronic medical record (EMR) solutions for long-term and post-acute care including: continuing care retirement communities, […]
by Michelle Boasten, humanitarian, social entrepreneur, and founder of “You Can Care, Inc.” Home Care Technology Report attended the Hurricane Marketing Enterprise Bootcamp event in Philadelphia last week. Steve “The Hurricane” Weiss has created the most unusual home care event you will ever attend. Trained as a minister, he can only be described as a mash […]
By Tim Rowan, editor & publisher of Home Care Technology Report In addition to the many familiar faces, new exhibitors at this year’s NAHC Annual Meeting included a few surprising entries. We will delve deeper into some of the more newsworthy items in coming issues but here is a quick overview of the ones that […]
by Michelle Boasten, humanitarian and social entrepreneur. Home Care Technology Report attended the Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice 2016 Annual Conference last month and picked up a distinct theme. Keynoters Bob Fazzi on day one and Barbara McCann on day two, apparently without collusion, both clearly pointed out that Home Health Care as […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report For 25 years, Optima Healthcare Solutions has provided cloud-based software to more than 9,000 post-acute care providers, including contract therapy companies, skilled nursing facilities and outpatient clinics. Following several requests from its therapy provider clients that also operate healthcare at home agencies, Optima decided to […]
Schaumburg, IL — October 20 2016 — Procura Healthcare Software, a global provider of technology for long-term and post-acute care, today re-introduced itself to the healthcare industry under a new brand and company name, Complia Health. The company also adopted “Enabling the Business of Caring” as its new mission statement. According to a company news release, […]
Altoona, PA — Delta Health Technologies® has announced the release of Crescendo 2.0. The company says this release builds upon the software solutions’ success with new features that provide even more accuracy and enhanced simplicity to the clinical documentation process. Clinicians are able to leverage their expertise in combination with intuitive guidance, regulatory compliant workflows, […]
Agoura Hills, CA (October 18, 2016) — Casamba LLC announced Tuesday it has acquired two other leading software companies in the post-acute healthcare industry. Effective immediately, HealthWyse, of Wilmington, Massachusetts, and Therapy Source (the former therapy division of Source Medical), of Birmingham, Alabama, have joined the Casamba family of companies. Based in Agoura Hills, California, Casamba […]
Baton Rouge, LA. — Federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday, October 12 that a former vice president for Amedisys has been sentenced to four years in prison for a wire fraud scheme through which he embezzled more than $7.6 million from the Baton Rouge healthcare at home provider. [Details are provided about the 8-year scheme engineered […]
