Home Health Care News July 8, 2021
If you dig into the home health market, you’ll find that a lot of providers look very much alike.
Overall, the home health market is made up of several thousand different players, from smaller mom-and-pop shops led by mission-driven nurses to multi-million-dollar behemoths led by savvy health care veterans. Yet for the most part, many of the big and small operators all run similar models based on the three well-defined service lines of home health, hospice and personal care services.
“This allows them to capture referral synergies and generate additional business,” Mertz Taggart Managing Partner Cory Mertz told Home Health Care news last summer. “It also helps prepare them for future value-based and risk-sharing payment models.”
For years, hospice was...