BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (December 9, 2021)–Home health care workers often suffer from poorer physical and mental health, when compared with similar low-wage frontline workers, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medicine.
HERZLIYA, Israel (December 9, 2021)—Essence Group, a technology group developing internet-of-things- (IoT) based security, safety and health care solutions for homes, families and businesses, announced it will showcase a 5G-enabled mobile personal emergency response system (mPERS) at CES 2022 in January.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 9, 2021)—Leading health care providers have announced the national collaborative formerly known as the Next Gen ACO Coalition has a new identity as the Value Based Care Coalition. The rebranding reflects the coalition’s evolved commitment to advancing two-sided risk, total cost of care payment agreements with traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage and commercial payers.
AUSTIN, Texas (December 9, 2021)—Two doctors who helped a local hospice agency scam Medicare were sentenced to a combined 23 years in prison for health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 8, 2021)—The House of Representatives has passed the Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act (S. 610), legislation to keep across-the-board 4% PAYGO cuts to Medicare reimbursement from taking effect in 2022.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 7, 2021)—On an annual basis, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issues a financial report that provides fiscal and high-level performance results that allow for the assessment of HHS’s performance over the previous fiscal year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 7, 2021)—Tomorrow Health is investing in stronger home medical equipment (HME) advocacy efforts by becoming an American Association for Homecare’s (AAHomecare) Diamond corporate partner, to the benefit of the homecare community and the millions of patients it serves.
ROSEVILLE, Calif. (December 7, 2021)—Always Best Care Senior Services, a senior care franchise systems in the United States, announced that it will deploy its own remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions across its franchise system throughout 30 states.
CLEARWATER & SARASOTA, Fla. (December 7, 2021)—Empath Health is pleased to announce Rhonda Sanders as its Chief Mission Access Officer, a senior-level position charged with helping Empath grow as a customer-driven organization and sparking growth in consumers, payers and referral sources for each service line.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (December 7, 2021)—IMAC Holdings, Inc. announced a promotion and multiple new hires to accommodate the company’s rapid growth in both IMAC Regeneration Centers and The Back Space subsidiary.
Sandy Miller, founding partner of IMAC’s Ozzie Smith IMAC Regeneration Center in 2015, has been promoted to the position of chief of staff for IMAC. Miller has served as vice president of clinical development for IMAC over the past three years.