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Compassus is pursuing growth through new locations, acquisitions and joint ventures, while putting particular emphasis on partnerships that embed its teams within health systems. Chief growth officer Chris Core said the model is intended to improve coordination from hospital discharge to home health, hospice or palliative care. CMS enrollment moratoria currently limit some forms of expansion, and are scheduled to run through Nov. 13 unless extended.
Compassus is pursuing growth through acquisitions, new locations and joint ventures, with an emphasis on embedding its teams alongside health system staff to coordinate patients’ care after hospital discharge. Chief growth officer Chris Core told Home Health Care News that these partnerships can help connect patients with home health, hospice or palliative care in their communities.
Core said Compassus expects to keep expanding through acquisitions, even as it evaluates other opportunities. Its joint venture approach is designed around integrated care coordination: Compassus staff work alongside a health system’s case management team to identify patients who may need post-acute services and help arrange community-based care earlier in the discharge process.
Core described the model as part of the company’s value-based enterprise work. The intended benefit, according to him, is to connect each patient with a provider suited to that person’s needs and make the handoff from hospital to follow-up care more efficient. The report did not provide outcome data or financial results measuring the model’s performance.
Compassus also works to educate referring providers about home health and hospice, Core said, and to make referrals and the start of care easier for providers and patients. He cited pressure on providers to see more patients with fewer resources as a reason education and simpler referral processes matter. The company is selective about potential partners, prioritizing clinical quality, strategic alignment and the right geographies.
How Embedded Partnerships Shape Discharge Care
Hospital discharge is a point when patients may need support beyond the hospital, but coordinating that next step can involve multiple providers. Compassus’ strategy puts its staff alongside health system case managers to identify needs and arrange home-based follow-up earlier, rather than relying only on a referral after discharge.
If the model works as described, it could make it easier for health systems to connect patients to home health, hospice or palliative services and could give Compassus a closer role in local care networks. Those are the company’s stated aims; the report does not establish that the approach has improved patient outcomes, reduced costs or shortened discharge timelines.
The strategy also matters because Compassus is seeking growth while federal restrictions constrain some new enrollments and locations. Partnerships and acquisitions offer routes to expansion beyond opening new operations, although the report does not quantify how much growth each route is expected to provide.
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Growth Amid Federal Enrollment Limits
Brentwood, Tennessee-based Compassus provides home health, home infusion, palliative and hospice services, among other in-home offerings. The source report says the TowerBrook Capital Partners-backed company employs more than 10,000 people and operates in 33 states. It describes a broad growth pipeline that includes de novo locations, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures.
That pipeline is developing under temporary Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services enrollment moratoria. According to the report, the six-month restrictions took effect May 13, 2026, and are scheduled to continue through Nov. 13 unless CMS extends them. They cover new home health and hospice Medicare enrollments, new branches and hospice practice locations, as well as certain ownership changes requiring initial enrollment.
Core said Compassus supports the restrictions as a program-integrity measure. He also said the company intends to pursue growth through all three routes, while selecting partners carefully. The report characterizes the home health and hospice sectors as fragmented, but does not identify specific prospective partners or transactions.
“Efficiency from hospital discharge to [the] right post-acute follow-up, whether that’s hospice or home health or palliative, is really, really critical.”
— Chris Core, Compassus senior vice president and chief growth officer, speaking to Hospice News
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Outcomes and Expansion Details Remain Open
The report does not name new joint venture partners, locations, acquisition targets or a timetable for specific deals. It also gives no targets for Compassus’ growth or breakdown of expected expansion across new locations, acquisitions and partnerships.
Although Core described the intended advantages of embedded care coordination, the available reporting does not include comparative results on patient outcomes, referral speed, readmissions, costs or the number of patients served through the model. It is not clear how widely the approach is already operating across Compassus’ 33-state footprint.
The moratoria’s eventual status is also unresolved. They are scheduled to end Nov. 13, 2026, but CMS could extend them. The source report does not say whether an extension is under consideration or how any change would affect Compassus’ plans.
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Watch for Deals and CMS Decisions
The next concrete developments to watch are whether Compassus announces new joint ventures or acquisitions, and whether it opens new operations as federal enrollment limits allow. The company has described an active pipeline but has not identified particular transactions or given dates.
CMS’s position on the moratoria will shape the near-term conditions for new Medicare enrollments, branches and hospice locations. Unless the agency extends the restrictions, the current schedule runs through Nov. 13, 2026. Further reporting or company announcements may clarify how Compassus balances those limits with its stated plans to grow through multiple channels.
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Key Questions
What is Compassus changing or emphasizing in its growth strategy?
Compassus is pursuing new locations, acquisitions and joint ventures. Chief growth officer Chris Core said partnerships with health systems, including arrangements that embed Compassus staff with case management teams, are a key part of the approach.
What does an embedded health system partnership involve?
According to Core, Compassus teams work alongside a health system’s case management staff to identify patients who may need post-acute care and coordinate connections to services such as home health, hospice or palliative care.
What restrictions affect Compassus’ expansion?
The report says CMS moratoria restrict certain new home health and hospice Medicare enrollments, new branches and hospice locations, and some ownership changes requiring initial enrollment. They took effect May 13, 2026, and are scheduled to run through Nov. 13 unless extended.
Has Compassus shown that the partnership model improves outcomes?
The report describes the model’s intended benefits but does not provide outcome or financial data showing its effects on patients, costs, readmissions or discharge timelines. Those results remain unclear from the available reporting.
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