Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

In 2017, the U.S. Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic. Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. Increasingly, this factors into compliance. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Case in point, in a 2017 study of 1,321 hospice patients in the United Kingdom, patients reported significant improvement in symptoms such as pain, shortness of breath, anxiety and nausea after receiving complementary therapies. However, patients did not report improvement in relation to their constipation, fatigue, insomnia or appetites.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Palliative care could drop health care costs by more than $4,000 per patient, according to a July 2017 study in Health Affairs. Expanded access to palliative care could reduce societal health care costs by roughly $103 billion during the next 20 years, according to researchers from Florida TaxWatch.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Launched in 2017, the VBID demonstration is testing new approaches to reimbursement across a variety of health care settings. This year, 1,367 plans offered coverage through VBID. The 2024 participants will cover a combined 12.4 million Medicare beneficiaries next year, up from 9.2 million in 2023.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Between 2014 and 2017, these patients accounted for more than 20% of all emergency department (ED) visits in the United States, according to the U.S. Embedding palliative care-trained social workers in hospital emergency departments can help health care providers effectively serve some of the most vulnerable patients.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

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. 1, 2016 and Dec. Partners in Care supplied OIG with the requested documents, amounting to thousands of pages, according to court documents.

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2022

Bristol is a large multi-regional player that has grown seven times larger since private equity firm Webster Equity Partners purchased the company in 2017. Bristol Hospice has acquired Hospice Select in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for an undisclosed sum. M&A advisory firm Agenda Health represented Hospice Select in the transaction.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

between 2017 and 2019, with a greater decrease among rural communities compared to urban areas, according to a report from The Center for Rural Pennsylvania. Hospice utilization ran highest in California and Florida that year at 156,000 and 154,521 decedents, respectively. The number of hospice providers in Pennsylvania dropped by 4.7%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A major acquirer, Bristol has completed close to 20 deals since Webster purchased the company in 2017. Last year, Troy Backus became Bristol’s VP of mergers and acquisitions last October, after serving as the company’s vice president of business development since 2007.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

PCHETA was first introduced in 2017. “There’s an opportunity for PCHETA to get added on, and to make sure that the training that physicians receive and nurses receive have at least a little bit of hospice, a little bit of palliative care awareness.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2022

Sinai in 2017 to provide hospital-at-home services. Contessa, a subsidiary of Amedisys, Inc., NASDAQ: AMED) and Mount Sinai Health system have expanded their joint venture to form a new entity offering a larger continuum of care, branded as Mt. Sinai at Home. Tennessee-based Contessa first partnered with Mt.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The research follows up on a 2017 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Economist to gauge whether perceptions of health care had changed in the intervening years, particularly in light of the pandemic. health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

The organization finished 2017 with a net income of slightly more than $107,000. . “LifeTouch Hospice has a wonderful reputation for providing high quality, patient-centered care, and we look forward to learning, growing and serving together for many years to come.” But the following year, it reported a more than $1.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. So, in 2017 Global Partners in Care moved from NHPCO and is now affiliated with the Center for Hospice Care.” Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

Suicide rates among cancer patients saw a “sharp slump” between 2013 and 2017, with researchers attributing the decrease to several potential factors. “Furthermore, the development of integrated care models, including collaborative care models, has provided a more comprehensive and coordinated approach to cancer care.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

Nevertheless, only about 45% of the chronically ill have documented their wishes, according to 2017 research in Health Affairs. Not only do these factors have the potential to reduce health care costs, but they can help ensure patients receive goal-concordant care in their final days.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Ginn served in that same role before being promoted to CFO in 2017 and executive vice president in 2021. He has more than 25 years of health care experience, including a role as assistant medical director at Compassus from 2010 to 2017. The news comes as Amedisys inches closer towards acquisition integration with Optum.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Tennessee-based Contessa and Mount Sinai first partnered in 2017 to provide these services, adding Mount Sinai’s home health agency into the fold with the expansion. This year the two partners strengthened their JV by forming Mount Sinai at Home, a new entity that provides hospital-at-home, palliative care, and other services.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

We have been doing community-based palliative care here since around 2017, so that’s where our desire to fill a gap in the health care system really started,” Snider said, who has worked as the organization’s chief medical officer for the last six years.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Between 2014 and 2017, these patients accounted for more than 20% of all emergency department (ED) visits in the United States, according to the U.S. Patients and clinicians can benefit from having palliative care consults available in hospital emergency departments, though currently few providers have done so.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

PCHETA was first introduced in 2017. Unfortunately, like so many areas of health care, hospices are being impacted by workforce shortages and I fear that this could impact the ability of patients and families to access this vital type of care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Their affiliate CVNA has participated in the program since 2017, and they first brought up the prospect of taking up the banner following a request for proposals from Johns Hopkins earlier this year, according to Ford. After considering the idea and assessing their capabilities, Care Synergy reached out to Johns Hopkins.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

Q4 2022, for example, saw the slowest volume of PE acquisitions since late 2017, the M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart reported. PE firms tend to finance their acquisitions by taking on debt, meaning that the flow of dollars may slow as borrowing gets more expensive.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2024

Wood joined Big Bend Hospice in 2017 as a consultant, later becoming CFO and ultimately the COO. Previously, he was COO of Big Bend Hospice. Big Bend has also promoted its medical director, Dr. Deborah Morris, to chief medical officer of Seven Oaks.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Justice Department, Angel Care enrolled 24 patients in hospice between 2009 through 2017 who did not meet Medicare eligibility requirements. We believe this is a fair sentence and we will continue to prosecute cases of fraud and corruption by those who seek to unjustly enrich themselves to the detriment of the elderly and federal government.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Justice Department, Angel Care enrolled 24 patients in hospice between 2009 through 2017 who did not meet Medicare eligibility requirements. Kristal Glover-Wing, the former owner of Louisiana-based Angel Care Hospice, has been found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and three counts of health care fraud.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

About 845 hospices provided care in rural-based regions in 2021, a drop from 878 organizations in 2017, the MedPAC report found. The volume of rural-based hospice providers in the United States has been declining in recent years.

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Hospice News

MAY 21, 2024

State of right to try laws Most recent data available show that 41 states have some type of laws in place permitting the use of “investigational drugs” since the passing of the Right to Try Act of 2017. These laws allow patients with serious or terminal illnesses to utilize drugs approved by the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2023

This is a projected 37% increase from 2017. Demographic tailwinds make Tennesssee an attractive market for Addus. By 2030, 28% of the state’s population will be 60 or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Compared to Q2 2022, the company saw 9.7%

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2023

Prior to joining the Los Angeles-based law practice, Banach was at the helm at NHPCO since 2017. Edo Banach, former president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), has stepped into a new role as partner at Manatt Health, a division of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Medicare made an estimated $190 million in improper payments to acute-care hospitals for outpatient hospice services between 2017 and 2021. An audit by the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S. A group of researchers have modified a proposed reimbursement system for palliative care that they say would improve access for patients and make the service more lucrative for providers.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A 2017 analysis of Northwestern’s program showed significant cost reductions, reduced hospital readmissions and increases in hospice enrollment and length of stay, Chiang said at the symposium.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021. Androscoggin’s New CHRO Maine-based Androscoggin Home Health Care + Hospice has a new chief human resources officer, Sarah Conroy. Conroy was previously a board member of the Maine State Society of Washington D.C.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tennessee-based Contessa in 2017 launched a JV with Mount Sinai Health System to provide hospital-at-home services, which later expanded to include community-based palliative care. The partnership is the latest in a string of JVs for Contessa. These partnerships have become a pillar of the company’s business model during the past five years.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Nevertheless, only about 38% of the chronically ill have documented their wishes, according to 2017 research in Health Affairs. . Not only do these factors have the potential to reduce health care costs, but they can help ensure patients receive goal-concordant care in their final days.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The agency will continue to collect only non-extrapolated overpayments for 2011 through 2017. Risk adjustment is a process through which health plans predict a beneficiary’s likely health care utilization and costs. Initially, CMS will begin extrapolating findings for payment year 2018.

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