Long-term care furniture company Kwalu and Clorox Healthcare have announced a joint marketing venture that will promote disinfectants on non-porous furnishings.
Survey reveals importance of electronic referrals
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Mallory Hackett
Jul 31, 2019
Electronic referrals are a high priority with 70% of home health and hospice organizations reporting an increase in requests for referral data to be sent electronically over the past one to two years,...
Cascade adds 15 facilities
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Elizabeth Newman
May 14, 2019
Cascade Capital Group has bought 15 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in two separate transactions at a total cost of $130 million.
Hospice provider must pay $6M to settle False Claims Act allegations
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 17, 2018
An Atlanta-based hospice provider will pay almost $6 million to settle allegations of providing care to patients who weren’t dying.
Device-ordering startup nabs $5.5M to fuel nationwide expansion
Mar 27, 2018
A startup company that’s aiming to simplify patients’ ordering of supplies, after they leave a nursing home, is going national. Parachute Health recently announced that it has raised some $5.5...
Researchers: Company’s ultrasound scans could lead to better wound care
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Haymarket Media
Mar 07, 2007
Better preventive wound care may be accomplished with the use of high-resolution ultrasound imaging, according to researchers in two separate studies.
Extra drug benefits offered for low-income Medicare beneficiaries
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Haymarket Media
Apr 16, 2004
Drug companies are sweetening the pot for some low-income seniors when it comes to the new Medicare drug discount program set to begin in June. Novartis was the latest to announce, saying Wednesday it...
Hospice provider will pay $10.1M for overcharging Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare
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Jun 22, 2015
A Florida-based non-profit hospice provider will pay more than $10.1 million for allegedly overbilling Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, according to the terms of a settlement reached with federal authorities.
Providers could lose Medicaid money and patient information due to ICD-10 transition, researchers find
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 13, 2014
Healthcare providers could experience financial and information losses when they make the mandated transition to the new International Classification of Diseases coding system in October, according to...
Kindred hit with record-setting $3 million penalty for failing to comply with OIG agreement
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Sep 21, 2016
The nation’s largest post-acute care provider has paid more than $3 million in penalties after failing to comply with a federal corporate integrity agreement, authorities announced Tuesday.