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Valeo Home Health Named Best of Salt Lake City 2021

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For the third year in a row, Valeo is recognized as the top home health and hospice company in the greater Salt Lake area. Valeo Home Health and Hospice, LLC, was named Best of SLC Home Health and Hospice companies in the third annual Best of SLC awards. Valeo is an amazing company because of the people it employs.

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Hospice Advocacy Groups Call on CMS, Congress to Strengthen Program Integrity Oversight

Hospice News

Hospice organizations have come under increasing legal and regulatory scrutiny related to medical necessity complaints under the False Claims Act and the closely related anti-kickback statute. The agencies’ recommendations included adding educational and professional qualifications to the hospice CoPs for leaders and patient care managers.

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Hospice Operators Watching Closely as Large Payers Transform the Industry

Hospice News

Hospice News spoke with three hospice leaders about the disruption they expect to see in the industry as payers expand their roles as providers, including the CEO of a California nonprofit, the top executive from the largest U.S. hospice company by market share and the leader of a growing for-profit provider based in the Midwest.

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Regulators Taking Aim at Hospice PE Backers

Hospice News

About 30% to 50% of home health and hospice transactions in 2021 involved private equity, according to the M&A advisory firm The Braff Group. With this growing influence comes renewed scrutiny about their impact on patient care, federal policymakers have indicated. The proposal would reduce that threshold to $1.5

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Future Leader: Melissa Heiss, Vice President of Hospice, Jet Health

Hospice News

Nobody is telling them how health care really should be, what questions to ask, and I had seen the impacts of that lack of information on aging and dying people throughout my childhood. What’s your biggest lesson learned since starting to work in the hospice industry?

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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

Large payers have also jumped into the home-based care bandwagon. billion acquisition of the home health and hospice company LHC Group. Despite this outcome, Lyons told Hospice News that the lawsuit, coupled with the information in their analysis, should raise questions about the company’s actions. “We