Hospice News

JULY 18, 2022

of Medicare decedents in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Providers should implement standardized routine patient screenings for symptom distress, functional impairment and caregiver burden, Chambers stated. Hospice utilization among diverse populations is sorely lacking.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Established in 2003, Instant Care of Arizona provides in-home senior care and caregiving support to patients and their families in Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, among 15 other cities throughout the Maricopa County area. The transaction also gives Choice its first foothold in the Grand Canyon State. By 2050, nearly 2.5

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

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. Medicare hospice claims represent a solid chunk, according to regulators. million.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Now, with our 10 locations statewide, coupled with a strong, solid network of caregiving professionals throughout all our service areas, we are well-positioned to meet the home health care and hospice needs of Texans.”. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in the state runs high and reached 52.1%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Currently, Medicare reimburses for palliative care via fee-for-service systems that do not cover the full range of interdisciplinary care. Some coverage is available through Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) relationships, but these are not available in every market.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

million seniors who reside in Illinois are 85 or older, and 40% of Medicare beneficiaries in the state have four or more chronic conditions, according to HCCI. The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. “For

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Its hospice utilization rate reached 60.5% This towered above the national average of 50.3% Delaware was second at 59.4%, and Arizona was third at 58.8%.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We’ve heard from the [Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)] on the 20% payment cap reduction. If we look at some of the decks and slide presentations on the Medicare Advantage carve-in, going back to 2018, it’s the same information, and we’re still talking about impacting change.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Established in 2003, Instant Care of Arizona provides in-home senior care and caregiving support to patients and their families in Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, among 15 other cities throughout the Maricopa County area. Choice entered the home health market in 2012 and stepped into hospice in 2018. As of 2019, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2022

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) last year announced a “strategy refresh” that included a renewed focus on health care equity in payment model design. For example, expanding their understanding of the parameters of a patient’s family and caregiver support system.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

Overall African Americans, Asians and Hispanics combined made up less than 20% of all Medicare hospice patients in 2018, while Caucasians represented the remaining 80%, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. Mertz Photography Mertz Photography Katie Leonard at the 2023 Palliative Care Conference.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Last year, I recapped our key predictions for home care in 2018 — and it’s safe to say that many have come to fruition: from the business imperative of employee retention to the importance of schedule and route optimization. Many of these issues are ongoing and will continue to affect the landscape into 2019 and beyond. in 2009 to 65.7%

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. How do caregivers fit into this? What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Goldilocks zone). How high is too high? Nadine: Thank you, guys.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Financial reasons: Medicare spends 72.10% of their payments for patients with a length of stay greater than 180 days. In 2018, that amounted to just over 13.8 Commit to Education!

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Hospice Law Blog

MAY 2, 2019

CMS also proposes, as a condition of payment, to require hospices to provide patients with a complete list (on request) of any services, drugs, or treatments that will be deemed unrelated to terminal illness (and therefore covered separately by Medicare). For perspective, in 2018, CMS spent $17.5 Routine home care days comprise 97.6%

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2024

Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are less likely to receive intensive treatments or burdensome transfers during the last six months of life compared to those in traditional Medicare, a new study has found. For the study, researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

The study spanned data among 199,828 Medicare decedents 50 and older who died in 2018. The remaining 14% of Medicare decedents spent these years in institutional settings, particularly in nursing facility-based care and inpatient care. “The These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 proposed hospice rule contained requests for information (RFIs) that could signal changes in the agency’s thinking on key issues. Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

Quality inequities among special needs, dually-eligible beneficiaries Dually-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries may have a lower likelihood of receiving care from high-quality hospice providers, according to a recent analysis. Researchers analyzed quality assessment using nine measures from hospice reports.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

Greater access to advance care planning services can lead to improved caregiver satisfaction and reduced health care costs at the end of life. of 955, 777 Medicare decedents who died between 2017 and 2018 utilized these services, a JAMA Health Forum study found. Only 10.9%

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

These were the driving factors that fueled HPCMV to seek out Medicare certification after nearly four decades of thriving on philanthropic support, according to Stauffer Wozniak. Today our programs include hospice, a palliative care clinic and massage therapy for patients, caregivers and interdisciplinary staff.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

.” For the study, researchers conducted interviews and focus groups with Black Americans 18 and older who suffer from a serious illness and their caregivers, producing a number of key findings: Knowledge of palliative and hospice care varied among participants. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

There’s tons of people innovating with end-of-life and caregiver support.”. Payne founded the company in 2018 after selling her house for startup capital. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirement that hospices provider bereavement care for 13 months following a patient’s death. Now I know about 450.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In 2018 Florida ranked third highest nationwide for hospice utilization at a rate of 57.9% among Medicare decedents, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. The Auer Szabo Empath Adult Day Center will provide this much-needed support system for them and their caregivers,” said Rafael J.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The company is a value-based organization that partners with primary care physicians nationwide to jointly take on the total cost and quality of care for their senior patients through Medicare Advantage or the the U.S. Our first partner started in 2018. It currently operates in 35 markets in 15 states. What would it take to do that?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Like most comfort care homes, Hildegard House is supported entirely by philanthropy and receives no reimbursement from any type of insurance, including Medicare or Medicaid. There’s a huge caregiving crisis. Roughly three-quarters of caregivers spend upwards of $7,200 annually for associated costs, AARP reported.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Researchers at the nonprofit examined 58 studies published between 2018 and 2021 on these disparities. of all Medicare hospice patients in 2018, representing a small portion of the 20% who were patients of color that year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Hispanics made up 6.7%

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

We don’t have all the personal things that are really between the caregiver and the patient,” Joe Lyons, research coordinator for SEIU’s health care division, told Hospice News. “It’s million Medicare beneficiaries elected the benefit in 2021, up from 1.43 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Consequently, fellow incarcerated caregivers provide much of the care and support that palliative care patients receive in prison settings. 3 Medicare Advantage Crackdown Could Dampen Palliative Care Growth (May 3) Palliative care providers have kept an eye on evolving payment models to support their interdisciplinary services.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 18, 2023

Mortality and Discharge Location of Intensive Care Patients With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia examines data from a large, geographically diverse sample of patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The analysis included adults age 67 or older with continuous MA coverage who were first admitted to an ICU in 2018.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. ” Alex: So I’m sure there’s some element of difference between what the patient might say and what their caregiver might say about this issue. Eric: Does Medicare generally cover driving rehab specialists?

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Volunteers to provide companionship to the patient and relief to the family caregiver. Hospice is a vastly underused Medicare benefit in the United States. Grief support. 24/7 triage support for after-hours urgent issues.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. We look for creative ways, but hospice has its own reimbursement source through Medicare. Speaker 2 ( 00:40 ): Mm-hmm. ,

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. The most visible attempt began in 2020 when CMS began allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Rural-based caregivers have increasingly faced tremendous burdens as a result of hospices sustainability challenges, according to Dr. Steve Landers, CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance). However, roughly 40% of the caregiver respondents were not able to name a nearby hospice provider.

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