Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Years after it was first introduced, hospice leaders are calling on Congress to move forward legislation that would bolster their dwindling workforce. The most significant bill in recent years is the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), which has come before Congress time and again but has not yet been passed.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations. For some rural areas, they’re not seen as financially feasible or sustainable to larger programs,” Kuhlman told Hospice News. “So,

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

On June 1, LifeTouch Hospice will merge with Arkansas Hospice. Both hospices are owned and operated by the SHARE Foundation, a nonprofit, faith-based organization. The hospice last year served 430 patients in a five-county region of Arkansas. The organization finished 2017 with a net income of slightly more than $107,000.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic. In 2017, the U.S. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices. However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in preparedness when it comes to hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

At Mount Sinai we’re really good at creating new models and proving they work to improve care for the sickest patients with serious illness,” Goldstein told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series. These hospice-based programs are contending with the same pressures from limited reimbursement and labor headwinds.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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. Between 2013 and 2017, Canon billed Medicare for 2,800 claims per month, totalling $15.3

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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. Among these was greater integration of hospice and palliative services in coordinated care models across the continuum, they indicated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Health plan participation in the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) will fall in 2024. For calendar year 2024, 13 Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) will participate in the program’s hospice component, providing coverage through 78 health plans in 19 states. “It’s been a rocky road.

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Hospice News

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 held overlapping executive roles at multiple hospices in the Las Vegas area. These were just some of Lopez’s other hospice executive positions.

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2022

Bristol Hospice has acquired Hospice Select in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for an undisclosed sum. 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. Demographics are driving demand for hospice in Texas.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The home health and hospice provider recently announced the leadership changes in a filing with the U.S. Ginn served in that same role before being promoted to CFO in 2017 and executive vice president in 2021. The company in June announced plans to acquire the massive home health and hospice provider Amedisys for $3.3

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2024

The impending demise of the hospice component of U.S. Launched in 2017 by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the VBID demonstration tested new approaches to reimbursement across a variety of health care settings.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Alex Mauricio, president and chief strategy officer for Bristol Hospice, has taken the helm as CEO. Salt Lake City-based Bristol Hospice, a portfolio company of the private equity firm Webster Equity Partners, employs more than 3,000 staff in more than 76 locations across 18 states. Mauricio became CEO effective Feb.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

Federal legislators plan to continue to work on passing a bill designed to bolster the hospice and palliative care workforce. The Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) has come before Congress several times but has not yet been passed. PCHETA was first introduced in 2017. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Anti-kickback and health care fraud cases have recently cropped up in two southern states, with hospice personnel facing millions in fines and one owner facing imprisonment for their involvement. David Lovell, its founder and owner, launched the for-profit hospice in 2010, and the enterprise became Medicare-certified in 2012.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

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. Justice Department, Angel Care enrolled 24 patients in hospice between 2009 through 2017 who did not meet Medicare eligibility requirements.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

Hospices have been advocating for lawmakers and regulators to take action on curbing fraud, supporting veterans and bolstering the health care workforce. Battling fraud Reports of unethical or illegal practices have surged, particularly among hundreds of newly certified hospices in California, Texas, Nevada and Arizona. Recently Rep.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Hospice providers will be looking to Congress in 2024 to address issues related to program integrity, quality improvement and industry-wide workforce pressures. As legislative efforts develop, hospices may want to focus their attention on a few key legislators. We don’t have confidence in the algorithm that they proposed.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

To successfully negotiate value-based contracts, hospices will need to educate payers about the value of palliative care, according to J. chief innovation officer of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). Palliative care packs a small but meaningful punch in the value-based payment arena. .

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

Though evidence shows that longer hospice stays reduce costs, providers are still walking a regulatory tightrope. On one hand, longer hospice stays can lead to improved patient and family satisfaction and greater cost saving opportunities. Young told Hospice News. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2022

Home health and hospice provider Amedisys Inc. New CFO Takes the Reins at Bristol Hospice. Utah-based Bristol Hospice has named Jerry Copeland as its new CFO. Copeland was most recently CFO of Reliant at Home in Texas and served in the same role for Dallas-based Sage Hospice before that.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Advance care planning by necessity occurs upstream of hospice, but those providers nevertheless have a role to play in helping patients and families understand the importance of making their end-of-life wishes known. I think everybody in hospice and palliative care has to be really vocal about this. “I That’s hard to do.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) is prioritizing hospice as the agency cracks down on health care fraud. DOJ counts hospice claims among the root causes of rising Medicare costs in recent years, according to Lisa Miller, deputy assistant attorney general overseeing the department’s Crime Fraud Section.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Hospice of the Panhandle Promotes New CEO from Within West Virginia-based Hospice of the Panhandle has appointed Chief Clinical Officer Nikki Bigiarelli as its new CEO. The hospice world is constantly changing,” Bigiarelli said. Bigiarelli will work alongside its current CEO Margaret Cogswell before she retires on June 1, 2023.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

Stakeholders in the hospice space are optimistic that Congress will pass the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). PCHETA was first introduced in 2017 and again in 2019. PCHETA] was desperately needed when it was first introduced, and it is needed even more now. Third time’s a charm?

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

Hospice transaction activity has plummeted to its lowest level in years, new dealmaking data suggests. A dip in the number of quality available assets is likewise having an impact on hospice M&A activity. In comparison, the first quarter of 2022 had 12 hospice-related deals, while the first quarter of 2021 had 13 transactions.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Nurse practitioner Raphael and registered nurse Britt Akobundu, a married couple, launched San Diego-based Blue Monarch Hospice this past March, with the intent of improving the quality of life for not only patients and families, but also health care workers. . As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

1, 2017, to July 31, 2022, and examined inequities among pediatric palliative populations. Some states have begun instilling regulations in place requiring private insurance companies to cover palliative and hospice care for eligible children. Similar regulations were unveiled during 2017 in Nebraska.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

New hospice facilities and grief centers are cropping up across the country, while a California inpatient facility is reopening following a temporary closure due to the pandemic. . Meanwhile, construction of a hospice house in Maryland has ground to a halt. Kaweah Health reopens California inpatient hospice.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Home health and hospice provider Enhabit, Inc. The company’s more than 10,000 employees provide care from 105 hospice and 252 home health locations in 34 states. The company plans to deploy $50 to $100 million annually towards transactions, leaning 60% to 70% in the direction of hospice, Jacobsmeyer previously told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2024

Big Bend Hospice has appointed new c-suite leaders for its newly formed parent company, Seven Oaks Health, which oversees its palliative care arm. Previously, he was COO of Big Bend Hospice. Wood joined Big Bend Hospice in 2017 as a consultant, later becoming CFO and ultimately the COO.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The evidence base for these therapies has been growing in recent years, Leila Kozak, director of the Integrative Palliative Care Institute (IPCI), said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference. The survey revealed a number of obstacles to scaling these complementary services.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

The Pennsylvania state Senate has approved a bill proposing to expand staffing requirements around death proclamations to include a wider breadth of hospice clinicians. If enacted, the legislation would allow licensed practical nurses (LPNs) providing hospice care to make death pronouncements.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

The case has significance for hospice providers nationwide as CMS and its contractors continue to ramp up audits. We were given a mostly favorable decision by the administrative law judge, and CMS appealed that decision to the CMS panel,” Hagfors told Hospice News. “We’ve 1, 2016 and Dec.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Debbie Jonhston is a registered nurse who founded Viriginia-based Serenity First Hospice in 2021, inspired by the care her father recieved as he reached the end of his life. In those fields, she previously had founded the company Care Advantage, which telecommunications firm Bell South acquired in 2017. So it’s capital intensive.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

s (NASDAQ: AVAH) hospice and home health segments saw small jumps in the third quarter, but these lagged behind the company’s growth targets. Founded in 2017, the company launched a $458.8 Its services include home health, hospice, private duty services and personal care. Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc.’s rise from $411.3

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