Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S. This includes numerous calls for dedicated community-based palliative care benefit within Medicare. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. The reasons for this run the gamut. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws.

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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

JUNE 6, 2023

Atlantic General Hospital in Maryland saw costs fall by almost a third after implementing a similar program, according to a 2017 report in Mathematica Policy Research. Another caregiving agency in the area serves patients on Medicaid or Medicare, but their availability is limited. Nevertheless, Forks is all-in on palliative care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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. The hospice portion, often called the Medicare Advantage carve-in, is one component of the larger VBID demonstration that includes providers from across the continuum.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

PCHETA was first introduced in 2017. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2.8% In the midst of these challenges, some lawmakers may have an appetite for PCHETA, as more recognize the potential cost savings that hospice and palliative care can generate for Medicare. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2023

Researchers analyzed 2020 claims data to identify associations between SIA utilization and hospice Medicare beneficiaries’ characteristics such as site of service, level of care and length of stay, among others. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced SIA in 2016.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a financial incentive to foster better performance on the measure, the service-intensity add-on. More than $200 million SIA payments were distributed in 2021, compared to less than $100 million in 2017, according to the Abt research. CMS introduced SIA in 2016.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

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. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Lawmakers have an essential role in ensuring the viability of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, according to Davis Baird, director for government affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). So, having those conversations about what those improvements would be is going to be an important exercise in 2024.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) review and appeals process, according to CEO Greg Hagfors. The provider recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of its founding, which preceded the establishment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) due to audit-related claims denials.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

About 18% of hospices nationwide operated in rural areas in 2021, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). About 845 hospices provided care in rural-based regions in 2021, a drop from 878 organizations in 2017, the MedPAC report found.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Many hospice providers rely on Medicare Advantage (MA) reimbursement to support palliative care, PACE and social determinants programs, among others. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) laid out its policy for validating MA plans’ risk adjustment data, which the agency uses to calculate capitation rates.

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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. Before joining NHPCO, he was a partner at health care firm Gallagher Evelius & Jones LLP, and as general counsel at the Medicare Rights Center. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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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. Medicare is thinking about it. In Nova Scotia, we’ve had a number of conversations.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

The organization finished 2017 with a net income of slightly more than $107,000. Life Touch cited the difficulty of small nonprofit hospices competing with large providers as well as forces in “the evolving health care market” and anticipated “massive” changes in how Medicare reimburses for hospice care in the coming years.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Tim 07:37 I was going to say the terminology really came from the legal literature that we kind of adopted, I think in that 2017 statement. But I remember very clearly, not too long after the 2017 statement was published, our office administrative assistant said, hey Tim, you got a phone call from someone I didn’t recognized.

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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. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Texas runs high, reaching 52.1% Bristol Hospice has acquired Hospice Select in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

Recent evidence indicates that more of these providers are being enrolled in Medicare despite the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) efforts to date on curbing fraud and abuse. PCHETA was first introduced in 2017 and again in 2019.

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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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), can impose regulatory sanctions or civil monetary penalties. “We would find such conduct troubling in any case.

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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. We know that only about 51% Medicare beneficiaries in any given year are utilizing hospice.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

of 955, 777 Medicare decedents who died between 2017 and 2018 utilized these services, a JAMA Health Forum study found. There are countless poor experiences for those that don’t discuss these end-of-life wishes ahead of time,” Kwan told Hospice News. Only 10.9%

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

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. In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Young told Hospice News.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Alex: Oh, okay.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Current reimbursement structures within the federally established Medicare Hospice Benefit do not sufficiently support the level of care needed in rural-based communities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). House of Representatives’ Ways and MeansCommittee.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2024

of 955, 777 Medicare decedents who died between 2017 and 2018 utilized these services, a JAMA Health Forum study found. Then another large proportion of this fund will go to the development and fleshing out of our second product line. Census Bureau. Only 10.9%

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Currently, more than 10,000 individuals become Medicare-eligible each day, a trend expected to last for several more years, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. 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. Everybody wants to innovate.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

The number of deals in 2017 and 2018 hit 20 and 19, respectively, before slumping downward during the pandemic in recent years. Through the hospice benefit, Medicare covers nearly 90% of a provider’s patient care revenue. Several others are seeing this trend into home-based hospice and palliative care play out firsthand. “As

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

These types of data will also be important when hospices begin to negotiate rates with private payers through value-based programs like Medicare Advantage. The Kansas-based company reports that it has quadrupled in size since 2017, now employing a staff of 2,200 worldwide.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. Fewer than half of 143 respondents to Hospice News’ 2024 Outlook Survey , conducted with Homecare Homebase, reported that their hospice organizations would pursue new care types this year.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

Greene joined Bluegrass Care Navigators in 2017 as its vice president and chief hospice officer and brings 15 years of hospital leadership experience. Commonly called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the VBID program requires participating hospices to offer palliative care upstream. Hospice Maui appoints new CEO .

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). By contrast, Andrew Kolodny has published three QPAs since September 2019 (131-133), after he corrected his COI disclosures for JAMA articles from 2017 and 2018 (102-105).

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NHPCO

JULY 11, 2024

The organization, which was a program of NHPCO from 2004 to 2017, is now known as Global Partners in Care. Dr. Harper’s advocacy also impacted hospice care domestically, particularly in her pivotal role in integrating hospice care benefits into Medicare.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. And then we linked that cohort with administrative data, which allowed me to pull out the ICU admissions in addition to manually abstracting all of the paper data for the managed Medicare participants. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy. Alex: When did he die? Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

It was probably around, I would say, 2017 when I started seeing a lot of interest and starting to see things like the UK Minister for Loneliness. Have Medicare recognize social health as an important topic that is actually reimbursable in terms of services. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast. Carla: Thanks so much. What would it be?

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