Exploring Long-Term Home Care Solutions with Albert Eshoo & Joyce Barocas
Hospice Insights Podcast: What’s the Latest on UPICs? Highlights from Recent Audit Activity, Part I
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 5: Understanding Palliative Care: Strategies for Compliance and Reimbursement
Hospice and Home Health Survey Perspectives: A Conversation with Kim Skehan, VP of Accreditation at CHAP
Episode 172: Matthew Roberts and Lauren DeMoss, Maynard Nexsen Health Care Attorneys
A Very “Special” Episode: Amid Controversy, CMS Launches the Hospice Special Focus Program
Grace from CMS: Unexpected Good News on HIS and CAHPS Appeals
This Bandwagon Has a Broken Wheel: OIG Joins the Inconsistent Approach to Hospice GIP Claims
Beyond Hospice: Home Health Agencies Plagued by UPICs and SMRCs
Beyond Hospice: The OIG Renews Its Scrutiny of Home Health Agencies
As macro trends such as population growth, ageing demographics, and co-morbidities place increasing pressure on healthcare systems, investors are once again seeking out compelling opportunities in the healthcare services...more
Bass, Berry & Sims hosted the 15th annual Health Care Investors Conference (HCIC), co-sponsored by Deloitte, Gallagher and Houlihan Lokey, on October 29. Each year HCIC brings together hundreds of leading health care industry...more
On October 6, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) denied certiorari for Department of Labor v. Nursing Home Care Management Inc.—an opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit holding that the Fair Labor...more
A new report by the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) analyzes Medicare Part B spending trends for skin substitute products and reveals that expenditures in non-institutional settings rose nearly...more
On October 7, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in a case challenging whether home health aides must be paid for time spent traveling between clients’ homes. ...more
For those thinking that classifying workers as independent contractors is a cheaper way of doing business, beware. A California court just ordered a home healthcare business to pay $10 million in restitution and civil...more
In this episode of The Sandwich Generation Survival Guide, host Candace Dellacona welcomes Albert Eshoo and Joyce Barocas, owners of Right at Home Home Care in New York City. They discuss their paths into the home care...more
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 2013 issued a rule that prohibited third-party employers such as home care providers from claiming either the minimum wage or overtime exemption, thus narrowing the definition of exempt...more
OMIG publishes audit protocols to “assist the Medicaid provider community in developing programs to evaluate compliance with Medicaid requirements under federal and state statutory and regulatory law.” Such protocols are...more
If you are caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, you already know how overwhelming the journey can be. Between doctor visits, medications, daily routines, and the emotional toll on the...more
In 2024, the Connecticut state legislature passed Public Act 24-19 to enhance protections for home health workers after a patient murdered a home health nurse. ...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has significantly increased its use of powerful program integrity tools that can revoke or deactivate billing privileges in a matter of days. These authorities allow...more
As federal healthcare policy and funding continues to evolve — most recently due to the roughly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid passed by Congress in the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — businesses across the...more
Many older adults underestimate their likelihood of needing sustained, day-to-day care in their later years, and a significant portion of adults aged 50 and older are not adequately planning for long-term care....more
The U.S. senior living industry is experiencing significant transformation as three major forces reshape the market landscape. New tax laws have created mixed effects on senior affordability through new tax benefits for...more
New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) has long been the subject of enforcement at the New York State Attorney General’s Office (AG). Many of those enforcement actions involve caregivers who billed...more
Home care agencies and other third-party employers may soon be able to reclaim the Companionship Services and Live-In Exemptions for caregivers and other domestic service employees, after more than a decade of exclusion, due...more
The “companionship services” exemption to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime requirements would again be available to third-party agencies that employ home caregivers and live-in domestic service...more
Are home health and personal care workers eligible for overtime? That is a more complicated question than it first appears. In fact, it could be about to change again as certain providers of home health and personal care...more
In a Dear Administrator Letter (DAL) issued by the New York State Department of Health (DOH), Licensed Home Care Services Agencies (LHCSA) were notified of "updated" and "streamlined" policies and procedures for the...more
Rallyday Partners has announced a strategic investment in Elder Care Homecare....more
New York State’s Medicaid Homecare program pays for in-home personal care services. New York’s program has long been the best in the country. One underlying policy behind the program was that people should have every...more
North Carolina’s Healthcare Planning Section is hard at work on a new State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP), which can be expected to include a range of 2026 health care development opportunities in counties across North...more
On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued a proposed rule that would allow third-party home healthcare providers to rely on the domestic service exemption that existed under the...more
Home healthcare employers – take note. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2025-4 on July 25, 2025 (FAB), announcing that it will immediately stop enforcing the...more