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Advanced Home Care Acquires Dignity Hospice

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Massachusetts-based Advanced Home Care has acquired Dignity Hospice Care for an undisclosed amount. The transaction follows Advanced Home Care’s acquisition of Dignity Home Care late last year. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Census Bureau projections.

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Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Uintah Basin

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Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. The home health and hospice provider is part of the home care service line of Uintah Basin Healthcare. We are honored to have provided care to our home health and hospice patients and their loved ones.

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Choice Health CEO Jackson: Instant Care Deal an Extraordinary Opportunity in Non-Medical Home Care

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Instant Care provided an extraordinary opportunity to move into non-medical home care in one of the most desirable markets in the United States.”. Veterans programs and managed care organizations also have become more involved in the space. Choice entered the home health market in 2012 and stepped into hospice in 2018.

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Hospice Groups, AOs Speak Out on Proposed Accreditor Oversight Rule

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule designed to strengthen oversight of those institutions. Some in the hospice space have maintained that accreditors should be able to provide such education, but they should not be paid services, including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Survey: 77% of Hospices Undergo Multiple Audits Simultaneously

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The nation’s four largest hospice industry organizations — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) — in late 2023 conducted a 133-respondent provider survey focused on regulation.

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New California Law Further Tightens Hospice License Oversight

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Auditors will review the impact of hospice fraud on the state’s Medicare and Medi-Cal programs, investigate licensing procedures, and evaluate California’s current oversight processes and capabilities. Medi-Cal is the state’s Medicaid program. Last week, a group of hospice industry organizations wrote to U.S.

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California Hospice Owner Receives 25 Months in Prison for Fraud, Kickbacks

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Justice Department accused the pair of submitting thousands of false claims to Medicare and of arranging more than $2 million in kickbacks in exchange for referrals. In total, Atoyan, Karapetyan and others caused the agencies to submit over 8,000 claims to Medicare for the cost of home health care and hospice services. “In

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