Home Health Care News January 28, 2025
Home health agencies (HHAs) owned by private equity (PE) firms tend to outperform agencies not owned by PE in certain metrics while lagging in others.
That’s according to a recent study by Mohammad Ishtiaque Rahman, an assistant professor of computer information systems at Thomas More University in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. The analysis found that HHAs owned by PE firms generally outperformed non-PE-owned agencies in areas such as timely care initiation and improvements in patient mobility and self-care.
However, the PE-owned agencies fell short in areas related to long-term outcomes, such as timely execution of physician-recommended medication actions, rates of preventable readmissions and successful discharge to the community.
The study analyzed 14 quality and outcome measures from the Centers for Medicare...
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