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Doc accused of biggest scam for billing $375M in bogus home visits
In what is believed to be the biggest dollar amount scheme committed by a single doctor, Jacques Roy, who owned Medistat Group Associates in DeSoto, Texas, and six others have been indicted on
Home health co-pay could drive up hospital costs
The home healthcare segment is concerned about a potential patient co-payment for services that could cost the industry millions of dollars a year, reports Healthcare Finance News. A MedPAC advisory
Healthcare to be a leading driver of new jobs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicates that the healthcare industry will be among the biggest drivers of job growth in the U.S. for the remainder of the decade. The BLS projects that more
Home healthcare siphons off patients from hospitals
Home healthcare has taken a bite out of the hospital market, based on a study by Frank Lichtenberg, a business school professor at Columbia University. Lichtenberg estimates the U.S. saved up to $25
Medicare spending shifts suggest fraud migrates
Medicare expenditures on durable medical equipment and home health vary widely in contiguous Florida counties, according to a newly released Medpac report. Once again, Miami-Dade County has outdone
Home health could prevail over facility-based care
Although healthcare has been concentrated in hospitals, clinics and other facilities over the past century, a Cleveland Clinic physician, Dr. Steven Landers, believes home healthcare is where the
Catholic Health Initiatives plans to go national in home health
Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), the nation's third-largest Catholic healthcare system, has struck a deal to purchase regional home health business Consolidated Health Services, with the goal of
Insurance fiasco: Man stuck in hospital for three years
Michael Stanzione got into a hospital, but he can't get out. Insurance woes have kept Stanzione cooped up in a hospital for three years, the Bergen Record reports. But it's not like he's bedridden.
Gentiva-Odyssey merger could be start of a wave in home health, hospice
Gentiva, an Atlanta-based publicly traded home health company that operates about 300 home healthcare offices in the U.S., signed a deal in the wee hours of Monday morning to purchase Odyssey, a
