The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is making ownership data for all Medicare-certified home health and hospice agencies publicly available.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the news early Thursday, Home Health Care News reports.
Anyone can now review “detailed information on the ownership of more than 6,000 hospices and 11,000 home health agencies,” according to CMS. HHS is doing so in the name of “promoting competition” and “protecting consumers.”
HHS and CMS did the same for more than 15,000 nursing homes in September last year, and they have done so for hospitals in the past as well. Read more.
