Hospice News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

By 2060, more than 48 million people globally will die with serious health related suffering, up 87% from 2016, the authors indicated. “Palliative care is neglected as a global health priority, and health systems around the world must better prepare to meet the growing need.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Advance directives (AD) and other goals-of-care documentation often lack information related to cultural, religious and spiritual affiliations, as well as personal health values, the 2016 research indicated. Fewer than 24% of Black participants had completed an advance directive, compared to 44% of caucasians who had.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018. Results indicated that MA beneficiaries were 1.6% less likely than those in traditional Medicare to receive aggressive treatment during the last six months of life and were 3.3% less likely to die in a hospital.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

The first report indicated that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious safety risk. The agency identified 313 hospices nationwide as “poor performers” in 2016, representing 18% of the total number of providers surveyed that year.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Minority groups represented 28% of Florida’s seniors in 2016, according to a report from the state’s Department of Elder Affairs. Socioeconomically, 29% of seniors statewide fell into a “low-income” category during 2016, while 30% live in rural areas, according to the Elder Affairs report.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2024

For the study, researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018. “Financial incentives to reduce costs in MA appear to promote less use of potentially burdensome treatments but also leave some patients without home-based or facility care after hospitalization.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Between 2013 and 2016, the company billed Medicare for $62 million and received $47 million in payments, according to the U.S. Canon Healthcare was a New Orleans-based hospice provider that also served the Baton Rouge and Covington, Louisiana, markets, as well as parts of Mississippi. Justice Department.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2 Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2

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Hospice News

APRIL 6, 2023

Since 2016, the Arizona-based hospitalist physician group has provided hospice and palliative care at the HonorHealth Shea Medical Center. Reportedly, SPG may have submitted more than 15,000 false billing claims since 2016. Ghadimi is accused of misusing Medicare payments. He is also under investigation for kickbacks.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2 Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Hildegard of Bingen, the facility is a former convent that admitted its first resident in 2016 after undergoing about a year of renovations. . Also, the depletion of a family’s financial resources is a greater predictor of aggressive treatment at the end of life than patient preferences or demographic factors, a 2016 study concluded. .

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Office settings accounted for 61% of all ACP billing between 2016 and 2019, according to OIG. CMS in 2016 began to reimburse physicians and other qualified Medicare health care professionals for face-to-face advance care planning discussions with patients and families. This opened the door for greater advance care planning utilization.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The results show that people were less inclined to discuss palliative care than they were in previous surveys in 2015 and 2016. The survey polled 1,000 people in the Republic of Ireland throughout July 2023.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The agency launched the MCCM in 2016. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its fifth and final report on the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM), which studied the effects of allowing individuals to receive hospice care without foregoing other treatments.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Yet he never formally served as a leader or member of PROP, and until the CDC NCIPC-BSC Meeting on July 16, 2021, Chou avoided all allegations of conflicts of interest (COI) between his opioid research and co-authorship of the 2016 Guideline, unlike several other PROP members (2). Activities that did not pose a conflict (e.g.,

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

Contreras defrauded Medicare of nearly $4 million in false and fraudulent hospice claims from July 2016 to February 2019, according to the plea agreement. Contreras served as a physician for two Pasadena-based providers, Saint Mariam Hospice Inc. and Arcadia Hospice Provider Inc. District Judge André Birotte Jr.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From 2016 through 2019, the average share was 17.5%. The proportion of health care spending relative to the overall economy was 17.3%, also down from 2020’s rate of 19.5%. Again, the data indicates movement towards normalization. billion in 2022.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2024

A federal jury last November convicted Akula on 23 counts of False Claims violations reaching nearly $47 million between 2013 and 2016, with the company billing Medicare for $62 million total.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

1, 2016 and Dec. The lawsuit contends that the claims denials denied Partners in Care its right to procedural due process. OIG, on behalf of CMS, informed the hospice that it would be audited in a May 2018 letter. The audit examined medical and billing records for 100 patients from Jan.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A 2016 study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine that showed organizations could save as much as $10,000 a month for patients who were getting in-home palliative care. Palliative care has such cost-savings potential.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

He became CEO in 2016. Westfall came to VITAS in 2012 as senior vice president of field operations. Three years later, he was appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This practice was first implemented by the IMPACT Act for years 2016 through 2025 and was previously extended to 2023. The post Federal Spending Bill Would Extend Hospice Recertification Via Telehealth Through 2024 appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Researchers analyzed records for 43,200 veterans with prior hospitalization who had received primary care at a VA site between October 2016 and September 2019. Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Celtic and Residental merged in 2016 to form Graham Healthcare Group. A year later, the Washington Post Company sold its news assets to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeffrey Bezos and reorganized under the Graham Holdings name. Graham went on to acquire Residential Hospice in 2014.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016. Cottrell has led the nonprofit hospice organization since September 2016. Before joining Guaranteed, Malone served as vice president of sales and partnerships at mental health provider Thriveworks since 2021.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in 2016. Escobar’s] factors ‘could support a materiality finding’ not because the evidence definitively points towards materiality — it does not — but because on this record, a reasonable jury could conclude that Care Alternatives’ alleged violations were material.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

CMS introduced SIA in 2016. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a financial incentive to foster better performance on the measure, the service-intensity add-on.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Slightly more than 240 medications were in short supply at the close of Q1 2022, compared to 195 during the same period in 2016, according to data from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). These include essential drugs for pain and symptom management. The scope of the shortages seems to be widening.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

The first version of the bill was introduced in 2016. The waiver pertaining to routine home care, which ended with the PHE on May 11, was not mentioned in the bill text. The history of the CONNECT Act extends before the pandemic. Some provisions from that initial draft have been implemented piecemeal over the years.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced SIA in 2016. “This [variation] largely occurs because hospices cannot provide SIA when the level of care is not [routine home care],” they said during the assembly.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Founded in 2016, Dina is a health care technology platform designed to optimize patient transitions into home-based care, remotely monitor patients to support aging-in-place, and use data to identify and inform care plans. “It’s not just as simple as arranging one service.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

million patients who elected hospice in the last 90 days of life during the years 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018. .” For this study, researchers examined medical records for a cohort of nearly 3.2 Years prior to 2018 showed similar patterns.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

For example, 2016 research found that close to 3.6 Home-based palliative care could reduce societal health care costs by $103 billion within the next 20 years, the nonprofit economic research group Florida TaxWatch indicated in a 2019 report. Programs to address social determinants have likewise been found to reduce health care expenditures.

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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.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

CMS launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care. It also decreased ED visits by 14% and inpatient admissions by 26% while boosting hospice enrollment by 29%. Total savings per patient reached $7,254.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Established in 2016, 1st Care provides home health and hospice in the Indianapolis area and surrounding counties across Central Indiana. The Care Team offers home-based care that includes hospice, nursing and occupational, physical and speech therapy services, as well as medical social workers.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

The pilot, which ran from September 2015 through February 2016, had 82 patients enrolled across four counties and palliative care organizations: Collabria Care in Napa, Interim Healthcare in Redding, ResolutionCare in Eureka and YoloCares in Davis.

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