Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

“For a hospice administrator or executive, you really have to be very focused on your length of stay data,” Young told Hospice News in a recent Elevate podcast episode. Are you in an outlier scenario with your data that Medicare contractors are looking at? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

One of the defining principles of hospice care is honoring the wishes of terminally ill patients. Now, with increasing frequency, a health care provider’s failure to honor those directives can lead to litigation or penalties by regulators. This can prevent or delay hospice care for individuals who chose to receive it. .

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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. million.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Wilson in 2008 became the organizations corporate and community relations coordinator before being promoted to manager in 2017. In the new position, Wilson will oversee the nonprofits fundraising initiatives, including an annual funding goal of approximately $4 million for uncovered services through Medicare or traditional insurance.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. In 2017, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded a Condition of Participation pertaining to disaster preparedness planning. Increasingly, this factors into compliance.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

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. The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S. Additionally, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Their desire to remain at home dovetails with the drive among payers and providers to reduce health care expenditures by reducing avoidable hospitalizations, readmissions and emergency department visits. Palliative care in general can reduce health care costs by more than $4,000 per patient, according to a July 2017 study in Health Affairs.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Among the signatories were 63 hospice and palliative care providers across the country, 14 state hospice and palliative associations, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the health care technology company Axxess.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This includes the revamping of the hospice survey process and the establishment of a Special Focus Program slated to begin in 2024, to name a few. What we would love for our lawmakers to do is really champion the program as it exists and make sure it’s protected from threats to its payment system,” Baird told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Care Synergy is also part of Responsive Care Solutions, an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) with 10 members nationwide, including hospice and senior services providers like Empath Health, Bluegrass Care Navigators, and Ohio’s Hospice. Medicare is thinking about it.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Rural-based hospice providers face a range of challenges to improve access among their underserved patient populations. We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and MeansCommittee.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

Battling fraud Reports of unethical or illegal practices have surged, particularly among hundreds of newly certified hospices in California, Texas, Nevada and Arizona. Recent evidence indicates that more of these providers are being enrolled in Medicare despite the U.S. PCHETA was first introduced in 2017 and again in 2019.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

About 72% of respondents to a National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) survey said they do not believe that the U.S. health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population. Though 74% expressed a positive view of hospice care, only 31% said they trusted the health care system as a whole.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Most recent data available show that 41 states have adopted some type of laws permitting the use of “investigational drugs” since the passing of the Right to Try Act of 2017 , as has Congress. This can result in high costs that are not covered by traditional palliative care payment avenues in the Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement system.

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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. Census Bureau.

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NHPCO

JULY 11, 2024

Dr. Harper’s lifelong leadership had profound and lasting positives impact across social work; hospice care; and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). The organization, which was a program of NHPCO from 2004 to 2017, is now known as Global Partners in Care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Medicare Advantage special needs plan (SNP) beneficiaries were more likely to use lower-quality hospices than those enrolled in fee-for-service Medicare. Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia examined Medicare enrollment and claims data for 4.2

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