Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Guardian Hospice of Oklahoma received Medicare certification in 2015 and has since grown its presence in the state and across Texas. About 143,284 Medicare decedents utilized hospice in Texas in 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The Pennant Group Inc.

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Hospice News

MARCH 16, 2023

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has once again recommended a 20% cut to the aggregate cap for hospice payments. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) set the 2023 cap at $32,486.92, up from nearly $31,300 per patient for Fiscal Year 2022. In 2015, for instance, 12.5% During 2020, about 18.6%

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. My mom was in hospice in 2015. By 2030, Seniors are projected to make up nearly a quarter (22.3%) of the state’s overall population, up from 16.6% currently, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And her own personal experience with hospice informed her decision to support the bill.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

For starters, rural regions are less likely to have a Medicare-certified hospice than urban counties. Fratkin founded palliative care provider ResolutionCare in 2015. Hospice and palliative care providers have wrangled for decades with obstacles that complicate access to rural patients and make their care more expensive.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The hospice organization in 2015 began considering a “retooling” of its C-suite structure in preparation of rising regulatory oversight, Roa said. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the SFP program in its final 2024 home health rule. Next year will bring the establishment of the Special Focus Program (SFP).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. This integration by Kaiser reflects the ways health systems will need to adapt as they care for the rapidly growing, often chronically ill, Medicare population. Census Bureau. As early as 2011, more than 90% of U.S. For most, this extends to end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This represents 46% growth in the senior population since 2015. among Medicare decedents in 2018, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. By 2030, one out of every five people living in Indiana will be older than 65, according to the Indiana Business Research Center. states that year at 59.4%.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Oregon passed a law in 2015 to create its Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Council. Currently, Medicare reimburses for palliative care physician and licensed independent practitioner services through fee-for-service programs that often do not sufficiently support the full range of interdisciplinary care.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2023

The nation’s fragmented payment structures for palliative care reimbursement create opportunities for regulators to examine the facets of these different models across varied geographic areas and patient populations, according to Fred Bentley, managing director for Medicare innovation at ATI Advisory. Nine of these bills were passed.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which requires providers to acquire a building and design a center to house a PACE program. Bello and his wife Sade Bello, the hospice’s administrator, launched Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care in 2015. This elevates care that we’re able to provide in the community to our patients.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When the Medicare Hospice Benefit became a permanent program in 1982, its parameters were designed specifically for cancer patients. Longer lengths of stay do generate higher margins , the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported in 2019. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to “modernize” the benefit.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

About 21% indicated that their own health was poor in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. Some Medicare Advantage plans also offer some caregiver support services as a supplemental benefit. More than a third (34%) of family caregivers were Baby Boomers in 2020, according to a report from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC).

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

“It essentially comes down to error rate and whether or not the billing and coding audit shows that the seller is documenting and substantiating and verifying all of the necessary elements for payment for hospice services from Medicare,” Cox told Hospice News. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). exceeded the cap.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Coplia joined Angela Hospice in 2015 as its executive director, stepping into her current role in 2019. 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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Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2024

million fraud scheme in which Medicare was billed for hospice services that the patients did not need. “In In 2015, Thropay was listed as the attending provider for more hospice claims paid by Medicare than any other provider in the nation,” the Justice Department indicated in a press release.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The nonprofit organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015. About 156,000 Medicare decedents in California utilized the hospice benefit in 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Yet, Asians, African Americans, and Hispanics represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients in 2018, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according to NHPCO. ““To Yet, the uptake amongst white Medicare beneficiaries remains higher than among their Asian, Black, Hispanic, or Native Americans peers.”. between 2010 and 2019.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to remain intact. Fratkin founded the home-based palliative care provider in 2015. As the PHE lingers, so do questions around what it has brought to the table for hospices. A continued federally declared emergency allows flexibilities by the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the United States, about 177,360 children have conditions that warrant palliative care on an annual basis, according to the 2015 report “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life,” published by the National Academies Press.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In fact, funded Medicare/Medicaid programs are required to only use healthcare software providers that have been certified API-compliant under the 2015 Edition requirements. This is true interoperability – and it will soon transform the future of healthcare delivery. Interoperability is already becoming an industry imperative.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In fact, funded Medicare/Medicaid programs are required to only use healthcare software providers that have been certified API-compliant under the 2015 Edition requirements. This is true interoperability – and it will soon transform the future of healthcare delivery. Interoperability is already becoming an industry imperative.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

You have a per-diem payment under Medicare, and the hospice is responsible for nearly all the patient’s needs. With the passage of the PACE Innovation Act in 2015, and the 2019 Final Rule from CMS, new PACE pilot programs are being approved in multiple states. In many ways, hospice is the original value-based care.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. While the U.S. What outcomes were measured and how?

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. While the U.S. A quick recap on the HHVBP pilot program.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). March 25, 2015. Moral Entrepreneurs Seize the Opportunity Opioid prescribing increased during the mid-1990s after widespread calls to improve pain management, particularly at the end of life (18-21). Oxford, U.K.:

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

The faith-based hospice company received Medicare certification in 2015 and primarily serves an urban region around the Chicago area. Developing an inpatient hospice center has been part of Oasis’ “vision” since the beginning, according to Oasis CEO Sade Bello and Hakeem Bello, director of business development.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 26, 2022

PMHNP programs have nearly doubled over the past eight years (with 208 programs in 2021, up from 114 programs in 2015). “We In 2019, PMHNPs provided nearly one-third of mental health prescriber visits of Medicare patients, found a recent study. The mental health system is increasingly relying on PMHNPs.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JUNE 22, 2023

On June 14, 2023, a federal jury found that a Georgia physician knowingly violated the False Claims Act following a two-week trial on allegations that he made false claims to the Medicare Program. This lack of review or audit, according to the physician defendant, meant that use of chelation therapy was not “material” in the eyes of Medicare.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For false claims submitted since 2015, the minimum penalty imposed today for each violation is $13,946, and the maximum is $27,894. While the FCA text itself calls for a minimum penalty of $5,000 for each violation, the statute also calls for adjustments of that amount for inflation.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 13, 2023

1] The jury identified $43 million in Medicare payments flowing from 64,575 kickback-procured claims. But the Anti-Kickback Statute applies to anything of value, given (a) knowingly and willfully, and (b) in return for referring a person or furnishing an item or service for which a Federal health care program (like Medicare) can pay. [2]

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. Have Medicare recognize social health as an important topic that is actually reimbursable in terms of services. Many people starting to talk about loneliness epidemic. Eric: How about you, Thomas? Lightning round: magic wand.

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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. 2015 Oct 8. Doctors and Facilities. Patterns in hospice referrals vary between doctors and facilities. Some doctors or hospitals are more likely to recommend hospice than others. J Pain Symptom Manage.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. What are other options? Home with a 75 year old mom who can’t really move them? It’s a bigger picture.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Alex: Can I ask a question? Melissa, were you a banker before you did research?

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), followed by health plans, usually sets the general tone of quality assessment and incentives, thus influencing the allocation of resources to specific programs in the short and long term. Center to Advance Palliative Care (2015). References: Aldridge MD, Kelley AS. 2015.302889.

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