Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Graham went on to acquire Residential Hospice in 2014. .” By 2030, seniors are projected to make up nearly a quarter (22.3%) of the overall Illinois population, up from 16.6% currently, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

” Kusserow retired as CEO effective April 15 but remained chairman of the board of directors.Kusserow’s first tenure as CEO began in 2014. Factors such as the return of 2% Medicare sequestration and a 62-cent increase in costs-per-visit also impacted earnings. billion from $900 million. million, up from $197.5 million in Q3 2021.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

A pharmacist by trade, Ashworth most recently served as president and CEO of Tivity Health (NASDAQ: TVTY), a wellness solutions company that contracts with Medicare Advantage plans, where he was credited with achieving a 300% shareholder return. Previously, he was president of Walgreens Co.,

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2022

Former SouthernCare nurse Rhonda McClinton filed a qui tam complaint against the organization in 2016, alleging that the hospice provider submitted hospice claims to Medicare for patients who were not eligible and billed for services it did not provide. Curo had purchased Southerncare in 2014 for an undisclosed amount. Humana Inc.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

among Medicare decedents in 2018, which is in line with that year’s national average, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Graham went on to acquire Residential Hospice in 2014. The proportion of seniors older than 65 in Missouri’s population is expected to reach 19.1% by 2025, up from 13.5%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The nonprofit hospice and home health provider became Medicare certified in 2006, and is operated by Catholic Community Service. Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance payments for patient services are not keeping up with these unprecedented increases in expenses,” Catholic Community Service indicated in the press release.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This is the largest total the Justice Department has seen since 2014. OIG has planned the audit for calendar year 2023 and will contact individual hospices to request Medicare claims and associated documentation. The audit will focus on patients who did not have a hospitalization or emergency department visit prior to electing hospice.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

A total of 109 transactions in the hospice and home health space involved a hospital and health system from 2014 to 2021, according to market analysis data that The Braff Group shared with Hospice News. Through the hospice benefit, Medicare covers nearly 90% of a provider’s patient care revenue.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kusserow – who holds a reputation as a successful turnaround executive – held the Amedisys CEO role from 2014 until early 2022. The company is reaching a point where it can no longer accept underwhelming Medicare Advantage contracts or delayed payments.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

The two organizations joined forces in 2014 when Partners In Care began offering palliative care services to patients at Summit Health’s oncology department. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could create opportunities to pull palliative and primary care providers closer together.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

He joined the faith-based nonprofit health system in 2014, bringing roughly 25 years of experience in long-term and community-based services. “We Bonham will lead the home health care provider’s strategic initiatives in the development of a virtual Medicare Advantage model in its Texas markets.

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MAY 30, 2023

The number of hospices operating nationwide rose to 5,3,58 in 2021, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Established in 2014, the organization is now a parent company to 17 affiliates and two philanthropic foundations, with more than 23,000 people enrolled in its programs. It increases costs. It reduces outcomes.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Between 2014 and 2016, he allegedly certified patients for hospice care who were not eligible, according to the U.S. million fraud scheme in which Medicare was billed for hospice services that the patients did not need. “In million hospice fraud scheme. Justice Department.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In addition to acquisitions, LHC was involved in 30 out of the 69 joint ventures that completed in the hospice and home health space from 2014 to 2021, Kulik said. The divestiture fits into Humana’s stated goal of raising its enterprise value by $1 billion , while building out its health care services and Medicare Advantage business.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Continued slowdown of hospice caps: The legislation extends the cap calculation methodology implemented by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014. Patients will also be able to continue to participate in telehealth visits from home. .

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Home care is seeing greater participation in Medicare Advantage Plans and Transitional Care programs for healthcare systems and skilled nursing facilities, which are also important programs for Lifematters. AlayaCare was founded in 2014.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JULY 21, 2022

Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act. But onward to post-acute care and what we see coming in the future. .

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Nurse.com

JUNE 3, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that home care expenditures are expected to reach $201B by 2028, a 73% increase from 2020. Rather than leaving the profession altogether, nurses should consider the benefits of home health care positions compared to working in the hospital environment.

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The World According to Dr. El

JANUARY 11, 2022

Late last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that they will begin to post staff turnover data on the Medicare.gov Care Compare website. . See my 2014 piece, “ The keys to reducing turnover in long-term care.” In July, turnover will be incorporated into the Five Star Quality Rating calculations.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

An excerpt from that blog here: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has consulted with Acumen in an effort to establish a comprehensive approach to Medicare Part A PPS SNF payment reform. Assess the impact of the payment alternative on SNF residents, SNF providers, and the overall Medicare system. Well, great news!

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

So the Oasis is the data tracker for cms that every patient who has Medicare as their primary, primary insurance has to have on file. Don’t panic at Medicare. It’s the improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act. I think that’s a good description. It’s all of their demographics.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

Quality inequities among special needs, dually-eligible beneficiaries Dually-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries may have a lower likelihood of receiving care from high-quality hospice providers, according to a recent analysis. Consumers need better information on hospice quality.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

“At a time when the population is aging rapidly, the demand for high-quality end-of-life care is increasing and only half of people with Medicare who die each year use any hospice at all, it is concerning that Congress would use the [Medicare Hospice Benefit] as a ‘piggybank’ to fund programs totally unrelated to the provision of hospice services.”

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

After a moratorium during the pandemic, Medicare sequestration resumed July 1. Hospice and other health care providers are once again seeing their Medicare payments slashed by 2% across the board. Sequestration was established in 2014 by the Budget Control Act. It included a 2.7% per diem rate increase.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2014, I made the jump fully to hospice. We need to have Medicare interested being the primary driver, and they seem to be somewhat. It would be wonderful to show Medicare just comparatively, the costs of a GIP patient to an equivalent patient that we can manage fully in the home. In 2014, I made the jump fully to hospice.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

of Medicare decedents elected hospice during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. JVs represented 69 out of 109 transactions that involved a hospital or health system in the home health and hospice space from 2014 to 2021, according to data from the merger and acquisition advisory firm The Braff Group. .

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nearly 80% of states nationwide have passed at least one or more types of palliative care legislation since 2014, according to Yale University’s Palliative Care Law and Policy GPS data tracker. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2018 began allowing MA plans to offer supplemental benefits, including palliative care.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I think it was 2014, but we did a survey of driving rehabilitation specialists in the U.S. Eric: Does Medicare generally cover driving rehab specialists? Is this a clear yes or a clear no? Or do they really need to go on and go behind the wheel and do a full evaluation? Emmy: We, a couple years ago, did a survey. Emmy: Generally not.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Whenever I hear about for-profit, non-for-profit, the differences between them, mostly everybody turns to, I think, your 2014 paper looking at the differences between for-profit and non-for-profit. It’s something we need to pay attention to, which is what we were talking about in the article. Alex: Can I ask a question?

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Medicare Policies. Medicare and most other insurances require that people not receive cure-oriented care while in hospice. 2014; doi 10.1007/s00520-014-2397-7. 2014; 28(7): 959-964. Doctors and Facilities. Patterns in hospice referrals vary between doctors and facilities. Support Care Cancer. 2015 Oct 8. Palliat Med.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). We described above how changes in opioid policy aimed at reducing Washington State’s Medicaid and Workers Compensation costs contributed to an increase in methadone deaths between 2003 and late 2014 (23-25).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. The most visible attempt began in 2020 when CMS began allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 14, 2024

In this capacity, Underwood worked on private insurance reform, summary of insurance benefits, health care quality in the Medicare program, the Agency for Health care Research and Quality, and preventive services (free screenings, immunizations, and contraceptive coverage) for four and a half years from 2010-2014.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He would oversee both the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including the hospice benefit. Oz has come forward as a strong proponent of Medicare Advantage and further privatization of Medicare. I passionately study them,” Oz said in a 2014 U.S. Kennedy, Jr.,

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