Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Mansfield, Texas-based Angels Care Hospice has set the ball rolling on expanding to two additional counties, reaching areas that have lacked a provider for more than a decade. By extending its footprint, the company is helping to fill a gap left when Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, Texas, shuttered its hospice program in 2010.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

California-based Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest integrated health systems, has opened a hospice de novo on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The new location is the most recent of a series of investments that Kaiser has made in the home setting, including hospice and palliative care. Our growth path is still there.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

The researchers examined Medicare claims data of beneficiaries 65 and older with recent cancer diagnoses who were given a six-month life expectancy prognosis between 2010 and 2019. The post Research Points to Palliative Care’s Underutilization Among Cancer Patients appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Anti-kickback and health care fraud cases have recently cropped up in two southern states, with hospice personnel facing millions in fines and one owner facing imprisonment for their involvement. David Lovell, its founder and owner, launched the for-profit hospice in 2010, and the enterprise became Medicare-certified in 2012.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

million following reports by hospice employees who cared for their residents. Department of Justice alleged that the Indiana-based company billed Medicare separately for services that should have been covered by the hospice benefit. The hospice workers filed a qui tam complaint against ASC in the U. CMS as of Oct.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

NYSE: HCA) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) recently added a new graduate fellowship in hospice and palliative care medicine to their existing repertoire of training programs. Demand for culturally diverse hospice and palliative care in Florida is growing as minority aging populations swell. Utah held the highest rate at 60.5%

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

Hospice staff training models with culturally appropriate LGBTQ+ components are key to improving quality outcomes among an increasingly diverse base of underserved seniors. of the overall population in the United States in 2010, according to a report from SAGE. It’s also important that we push for diversity among service providers.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989. He returned to hospice care part time from 2010 to 2014 from his home base in Napa County. As a hospice physician, you want to give patients a soft landing.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 9, 2023

Hospices are seeking solutions to protect themselves and their patients against cybercrime. In light of these risks, hospices must be ready to adapt their procedures, policies and technology to a changing environment. 1, 2010 and March 9, 2023, according to HHS records. Nearly 164.4

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

The hospice chaplain shortage is reaching a tipping point. As they work to recruit and retain their chaplain labor force, hospices are contending with a barrage of issues that also can impact patient access. More than 7,768 chaplains were employed by hospices nationwide in 2019, according to the Zippia report.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2023

Effective May 1, the North Carolina-based hospital UNC Health Southeastern (UNC) will transfer ownership of its community-based hospice operations to Lower Cape Fear LifeCare. The hospital will continue to offer inpatient hospice services. About 585 died while receiving hospice care that year. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The home health and hospice provider recently announced the leadership changes in a filing with the U.S. The company in June announced plans to acquire the massive home health and hospice provider Amedisys for $3.3 She also served as COO of Camellia Healthcare’s hospice division before leaving the organization in 2013.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Medicare claims for unrelated services creates serious financial and legal risks for hospice providers — even if they are not the ones who sent the bill. During recent years, payouts for non-hospice services provided to Medicare beneficiaries have tipped into the billions. Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Hospice of the Panhandle Promotes New CEO from Within West Virginia-based Hospice of the Panhandle has appointed Chief Clinical Officer Nikki Bigiarelli as its new CEO. The hospice world is constantly changing,” Bigiarelli said. The hospice and palliative care provider operates in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Texas.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking answers from the hospice community — including some around utilization patterns and non-hospice spending. The recently proposed 2024 hospice payment rule contained a 2.8% of hospice days and 93.7% In Fiscal Year 2022, routine home care accounted for 98.8%

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Some hospice owners have been selling their businesses soon after securing a license. The practice appears to stem from a rash of newly licensed hospices that have emerged in California, Nevada, Texas and Arizona. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to strengthen program integrity for the Medicare Hospice Benefit. “I

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The recent article by the New Yorker and ProPublica that branded “hospice” as a profiteering “hustle” was an outrageous misrepresentation of the provider community. The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), for instance, filed an amicus brief with the court. Even when a hospice plays by the rules, death does not.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Without family caregivers, many hospice patients would be unable to receive care in their homes. If these family caregivers were to suddenly disappear, the health care system as we know it likely would be on the hook for that additional $470 billion of support and service,” Link told Hospice News. “We In 2010, the U.S.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2024

Justice Department alleges that Kindred at Home and related entities knowingly submitted false claims and retained overpayments for hospice services provided to patients who were ineligible. The federal government and the State of Tennessee first filed these complaints against Kindred in 2021 for claims submitted between 2010 and 2020.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

They’re vulnerable patients that might not have a lot of social support for a home hospice situation. Its palliative care program began in 2006, launching its first clinic in 2010 and growing ever since, Cohen stated. Among the unit’s aims is to improve timely access to hospice when the need arises, said Cohen.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Two major shifts are transforming the landscape of hospice. First, private equity firms are gobbling up hospices. Thus, they have little in the way of long term vision for hospices, instead focused on cutting costs and maximizing profits. . People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. AlexSmithMD.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The American Board of Medical Specialties and American Osteopathic Association Board of Specialties didn’t recognize hospice and palliative care as a subspecialty until 2006. Daly was a part of the second-ever class to sit the palliative care certification exam in 2010. Things have changed in the decade following Daly’s certification.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

First Docs is a physician-led internal medicine practice that offers a range of health care services and frequently collaborates with hospice, palliative care, and home health providers, among others. CEO Dr. Sanjay Bhatia founded First Docs in 2010, introducing its proprietary 360 Community Medicine Care Model.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Though older Asian-American adults may be less likely to discuss pain and symptom management needs with their health care professionals, they may be more receptive to the psychosocial support included in hospice and palliative care, according to recent research from VITAS’ Healthcare. between 2010 and 2019. and 20%, respectively.

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HPNA podcast

MARCH 3, 2025

Listen for what the health care teams did well, areas where they could improve, and how administrators can champion hospice and palliative care services to make end of life easier for patients and their families. This led her to also become a board-certified pediatric hospice and palliative nurse in 2009.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

And with the advent of new payment models, hospices are no longer on the outside of those programs looking in. In 2010 and 2011, he was a special advisor to then U.S. Jain initially voiced these concerns in an April 12 article in Forbes , but elaborated in a subsequent interview with Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

Lagging supportive services around social determinants of health and limited access to hospice and palliative care are driving disparities among rural family caregivers. The researchers’ analysis spanned the experiences of 1,470 caregivers across 18 studies from 2010 to 2023. And this really facilitated their caregiving in rural areas.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A recent study of nearly 30,000 hospitalized metastatic breast cancer patients found that only 19% received palliative care from 2010 to 2014. The post Breast Cancer Patients Often Lack Access to Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News. The Scientific Reports study examined patient data in the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

The study included patients between the ages of 18 to 64 who were newly diagnosed with stage 4 cancers between 2010 and 2019. The post How Medicaid Boosted Palliative Care Utilization appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in hospice and palliative care have been persistent problems in the field for decades, including among communities of Asian origin. To help providers close some of those gaps, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has released a new Chinese American Resource Guide. .

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The research spanned 40 studies across 10 databases in 12 countries from 2010 to 2021 that measured the level of understanding using the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing (PCQN) scale. The post Knowledge Gaps Among Nurses Create Barriers for Patients Across the Globe appeared first on Hospice News. to 9.96), the analysis found.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today. Hope 00:31 Thanks.

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Hospice Red River Valley

DECEMBER 1, 2022

He looked forward to his Hospice visits. In 2010, he was honored at a banquet in Washington DC and awarded the Silver Helmet Award as the AMVET of the year. The time Hospice of the Red River Valley was able to give our family with my dad was a real blessing. With the help of Hospice, Dad lived until he died.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The program in 2010 covered four patient diagnoses for palliative care plans: cancer, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and end-stage liver disease. The post 2024s Palliative Care Payment Trends Provide Plethora of Data for Future Policymaking appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

This year, the company announced plans to combine with Care Oregon, a Medicaid-focused payer organization, and earlier this year it began participating in the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model demo in early 2023. ​​In In 2010 and 2011, he was a special advisor to then U.S.

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