Eric Welsh aims to provide for families and children through new marketing & talent acquisition role

DALLAS—Care Options for Kids (COFK), a pediatric specialists provider, announced Eric Welsh as its new chief marketing and talent acquisition officer. Welsh plans to utilize his experience in home health care marketing to continue the company’s growth. 

Robert Scharff appointed as new executive vice president of revenue cycles & intends to support company’s mission

DALLAS—Care Options for Kids (COFK), a pediatric specialists provider, named Robert Scharff as executive vice president (VP) of revenue cycle. An experienced health care operations and revenue cycle management leader, Scharff aims to support the company’s mission and provide care to children and their families.

A Texas doctor received kickbacks for authorizing DME orders that were not legitimately prescribed or needed

WASHINGTON—A Texas doctor was sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison and ordered to pay more than $34 million in restitution for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by prescribing durable medical equipment (DME) and cancer genetic testing without seeing, speaking to or otherwise treating patients.

The 2024 award recipients were honored at the LeadingAge annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee

WASHINGTON—This year’s LeadingAge annual meeting, which was held at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee, announced its Aging Services Award winners: Lourisa “Lulu” Solomon and David Gehm. The annual meeting, which hopes to bring in mission-driven providers who represent the continuum of aging services, brought together over 6,000 attendees from across the country this year. 

The new location in Longview, Texas, will be led by franchise-owner Keith Carter

LONGVIEW, Texas—Always Best Care Senior Services, a senior care franchise system in the United States, announced the opening of a new franchise location in Longview, Texas. The new location will be managed by franchisee Keith Carter, who seeks to provide senior care services, including skilled home health, non-medical in-home care and senior living referral services to the aging population in Longview.

The companies will utilize Electronic Caregiver’s virtual caregiver, ‘Addison Care,’ to navigate the future of insurance

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico—The Health Group, an insurance marketing organization, has partnered with Electronic Caregiver, a digital health solutions company and provider of the virtual caregiver “Addison Care,” in an effort to empower health insurance agents and improve client solutions. This partnership aims to improve both the portfolios of health agents and the lives of their clients.

The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America released tips & steps family caregivers can take to ensure their loved ones with dementia are safe & comfortable during Halloween this year

NEW YORK—With Halloween approaching, the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is offering five tips for family caregivers to help their loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-related illnesses remain comfortable and safe during the holiday.