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National Alliance’s Scott Levy: Hospices Need ‘Regulatory Relief’ to Protect ‘Sacred Benefit’

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Levy recently sat down with Hospice News to discuss the array of regulatory and legislative evolutions on the horizon in hospice care delivery. Can you share your background in hospice and home over the last decade, starting with your most recent role at Amedisys? I was promoted chief government affairs officer in 2023.

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Palliative Radiation, Supportive Care Bring Pain Relief to Cancer Patients

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“Single-fraction radiotherapy plus best supportive care improved pain compared with best supportive care alone in patients with liver cancer and could be considered a standard palliative treatment,” researchers stated in the study. Patients’ pain levels were assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) index.

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Pennant Group Acquires Guardian Hospice

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(NASDAQ: PNTG) has acquired Guardian Hospice and Guardian Hospice of Oklahoma for an undisclosed amount. Guardian Hospice of Oklahoma received Medicare certification in 2015 and has since grown its presence in the state and across Texas. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care CEO: The ‘Painful’ Growth of Inpatient Care Delivery

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She was a home health and hospice nurse and loved providing end-of-life support. Our dream initially was to have a hospice house for patients that needed higher levels of symptom management. We obtained our Medicare license in June 2015, and everything really started by faith. I was in restaurant management.

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Illinois Bill to Allow 16 Hospice Locations Per County, Up from 5 

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More than 57,000 Illinois residents enrolled in hospice during 2021, a utilization rate of about 47%, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. My mom was in hospice in 2015. She was diagnosed with cancer and received hospice care in the home, and I was her caretaker.”

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Rural Providers Weigh Telehealth Investment Against Regulatory Uncertainty

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Hospice and palliative care providers have wrangled for decades with obstacles that complicate access to rural patients and make their care more expensive. For starters, rural regions are less likely to have a Medicare-certified hospice than urban counties. The pressures on rural providers go beyond the logistical.

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How the Value in Health Care Act Could Change Palliative Care Payment

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The bill builds upon the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, designed to speed transitions to patient-centered, value-based care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) develop more transparent financial benchmarks that account for regional variations in health care spending, Pittman added.