National disasters. Home care's foray into nationwide HMO contracting takes a tumble.
Rather than a lifeline for the bottom line, nationwide home care contracts instead became dead weight for many firms. The problem, say poorer-but-wiser executives, is that rates simply failed to keep pace with costs.
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