Enhabit CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer: Company Gearing Up For Increased Consolidation, Payer-Innovation Opportunities

Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer has been ready to helm her personal entity for some time now. 

After a protracted interval of Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) exploring strategic options for its residence well being and hospice phase – which grew to become Enhabit – Jacobsmeyer and her co-leaders are lastly on their very own.

Jacobsmeyer was previously the pinnacle of Encompass Health’s inpatient rehab enterprise. Now she’s main Enhabit, which has 251 residence well being places and 100 hospice places throughout 34 states.

But it additionally simply so occurs that lower than two weeks earlier than the spinoff from Encompass Health was set to be accomplished, one of many worst residence well being proposed cost guidelines within the final half decade was launched by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

At the identical time, pandemic-related points are nonetheless hindering residence well being companies, as is inflation. On prime of all that, recruiting and retaining expertise is as onerous because it’s ever been.

In Home Health Care News’ last Q&A with Jacobsmeyer in February, she provided up the angle of a brand new CEO who was about to tackle the problem of main her personal firm.

Now she is within the thick of that problem. And final week, HHCN sat down together with her once more to make amends for how issues are going for the model new firm, business points and much more.

The dialog is beneath, edited for size and readability.