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JULY 22, 2024

MA enrollees were also more likely to receive hospice care and less likely to receive facility-based care after a hospital discharge, according research published in JAMA Health Forum. For the study, researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is required by the Affordable Care Act to ensure that reimbursement rate changes are budget neutral. An earlier version of budget neutrality was phased out in 2016. The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

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. For instance, the VA allows patients to receive hospice care concurrently with other medical treatments.

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MAY 17, 2024

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. The violations included fraudulent charges related to general inpatient hospice (GIP) services that were not provided and multiple counts of medically unnecessary procedures.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Organizations called comfort care homes have been working to fill this gap. These are generally nonprofit residential facilities that will give patients a place to stay while they receive hospice care. So many people that needed to access hospice care that couldn’t get it. Named for St.

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JULY 11, 2022

‘We oftentimes come in on the palliative care side for patients who maybe haven’t seen a physician for the last 10 years, because they’re not able to get out of their home, and there’s no resources available to them for home-based primary care,” Dado told Hospice News. “I million primary care visits in 2016.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Clinicians have also used virtual visits to assess medication or care plans in real time. Rapid deployment of telemedicine during the PHE also has created “a new pathway” for bringing palliative and hospice care specialists to rural areas, according to authors of a recent report published in the JAMA Health Forum.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

“With the addition of Safe Haven Hospice, we are poised for expansion throughout Central Illinois as we continue our mission of making hospice care more accessible to our communities,” said Justin DeWitte, CEO of Residential Hospice, in a statement. Graham went on to acquire Residential Hospice in 2014.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

million patients who elected hospice in the last 90 days of life during the years 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018. In 2011, for example, 50% of MA patients came to hospice from the community, compared to 39% of those in traditional Medicare. Medicare Advantage currently does not cover hospice care.

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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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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Careful management of hospice care manager workloads correlates with longer lengths of stay. For many patients length of stay is a week or less, which is too short for them to receive the full benefit of hospice care. Length of stay is an important metric from both a clinical and business standpoint.

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APRIL 13, 2023

Justice Department has indicted Eduardo Lopez, a former hospice executive and current senior vice president of a private equity firm, for violations of the Sherman Act. Lopez is charged with agreeing to “suppress and eliminate competition” for nursing services between March 2016 and May 2019, the U.S. Justice Department has indicated.

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MARCH 14, 2024

In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). CMS introduced SIA in 2016.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

. “With the addition of Comfort Hospice of St. Louis Missouri and Grace Hospice of Maumee Ohio, we are poised for expansion throughout the Midwest as we continue our mission of making hospice care more accessible to our communities,” Justin DeWitte, CEO of Residential Hospice, said in a statement.

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MAY 1, 2024

“The more providers that hospices are able to utilize, and the more training programs there are to elevate their skillset in the United States and align them with U.S. Roughly 62% of IMGs have secured residency positions across the country last year, a rise from 44% in 2016, the report found.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Under the NHPCO umbrella, the Center for Hospice Care became a partner in the program in 2008, Ahern said. “It

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APRIL 21, 2022

“The palliative care team at Partners In Care expanded to include a physician, nurse practitioner, registered nurse and chaplain, which rounded out the multidisciplinary team approach they could offer patients.” Hagfors previously served as CEO of the Bend Memorial Clinic – now known as Summit Health – from 2011 to 2016.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Potential impact on hospice utilization The strain on caregivers could mean that ultimately fewer patients will be able to receive hospice care in their homes. An annual observance, National Caregivers Day, has been recognized on the third Friday of each February since 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Ryan Krout, PharmD, VP, Clinical Management, Enclara Pharmacia, to talk about the future of predictive analytics in hospice care, and the steps providers can take to get the most out of this evolving technology.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Hospice regulation has taken a winding path in recent years, representing both a push and pull in terms of quality hospice care delivery, according to William Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hyatt previously was the organization’s CEO and president from 2008 and 2016. He joined Care Synergy in 2019 as vice president of marketing and development. Its affiliates include the Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (CVNA), The Denver Hospice, Pathways, and Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, among others.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

One 2016 study found that predicting mortality among patients with dementia failed 30% of the time under current prognostic guidelines. Department of Health and Human Services included this degree of unpredictability among its “ Important Questions for Hospice in the Next Century.”. Hospice costs money. population.

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MAY 19, 2023

Unity Hospices and Palliative Care Appoints New Strategic Director Unity Hospice and Palliative Care has named a new director of strategy with the recent hiring of Scott Hensley. Hensley was previously the national vice president of managed care at Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC), serving in the role since 2017.

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She will oversee a hospice average daily census in the high hundreds, across four states and that size organization falls into the upper tier of mid-size providers and has us positioned for expansion.” The company’s roughly 7,000 employees provide care to an average daily census of more than 11,000 patients.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

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. A watchword for many value-based payment models is care coordination. This could include partnerships with hospice and palliative care clinicians.

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JUNE 28, 2022

New Hampshire, which scrapped CON in 2016, was the most recent. In this day and age, we’ll see how long CONs last,” Freeman Smith, north region president for Traditions Health told Hospice News at the VALUE Conference in Chicago. “If In some parts of the country, having a certificate of need might limit who gets hospice care.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Prior to HopeWest, Mitchell served as chief operating officer at Kentucky-based Bluegrass Care Navigators. She has worked in health care for 27 years as a certified nursing assistant and registered nurse, and has provided hospice care to thousands of patients and their families during that time. Jet Health Inc.,

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JUNE 22, 2023

For one, hospice utilization has been on a steady upswing nationally for several years. million in 2016, according to the U.S. Also, across the board, more health care has been steadily moving into the home setting, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. More than 1.72 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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JUNE 27, 2024

The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act was reintroduced last year after making its debut in 2016. Navigating the unknowns of telehealth will take careful strategizing, according to Lisa Griffee, vice president of quality and customer experience at Hospice of the Chesapeake.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

John Thropay, a former medical director for several hospice companies, to 37 months in prison for his involvement in a $2.8 million hospice fraud scheme. Among the companies for which Thropay worked was Blue Sky Hospice, located in Van Nuys, California. Justice Department.

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Hospice News sat down with providers, advocacy groups, legal experts and other stakeholders to uncover the most significant hospice regulatory trends from this year and their anticipated impacts heading into 2024 and beyond. But we know that action can work in a pendulum.

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She began as a hospice volunteer as a teenager and witnessed firsthand the disparities that exist in the serious illness space. McCann-Davis in 2016 joined Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care as its communications manager before becoming its national director of communications and multicultural affairs two years later.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Most recently the hospice opened a de novo in Wisconsin, its 14th location in that state. “We Croix Hospice continues to grow in response to the need for expert hospice care throughout the Midwest,” Bartness said in a statement. Cottrell joined the hospice in 2016.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Treasure Coast Hospice Appoints VP of Medical Services Florida-based Treasure Coast Hospice has tapped Dr. John Crouch as its new vice president of medical services. Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For Immediate Release November 10, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center (CMMI) release of the final Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) report and At-A-Glance report.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

He previously served in similar roles at Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care since 2016 prior to its merger in 2020 with AccentCare. Prior to that, Kudner was director of advocacy and digital strategy for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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