File 003 · AgeTech

Record 154 · Care · 1982

82.154.R

Amedisys

Amedisys

Amedisys (1982) by Amedisys

A public home-health and hospice operator that defined the post-PPS industry.

Medicare home health, publicly traded.

Amedisys grew with Medicare home-health payment into a national skilled-visit machine, later adding hospice and hospital-at-home (Contessa). It is the public-company shape of the field.

Showed how CMS rules create a national home-health industry.

Filed notes

  • Medicare home-health scale
  • Hospice adjacency
  • Public-operator model

SIC

8082

Home Health Care Services

NAICS

621610

Home Health Care Services

Official

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