Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

” Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address this issue, providing 34 recommendations. “There are people who are running hospitals programs that are only theoretical.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Partners in Care took this unusual step after pursuing every other available means of redress, including the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) review and appeals process, according to CEO Greg Hagfors. The lawsuit contends that the claims denials denied Partners in Care its right to procedural due process.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis, the organization rebranded in 2020 to reflect its expanded scope of community-based services in an area with a growing need for serious illness and end-of-life care. The Sunshine State in 2018 ranked third nationwide for hospice utilization at 57.9% Formerly Hospice of St. and 59.2%, respectively.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Initially established in 2008 as a rehabilitation service provider, Choice expanded into home health during 2012 and later into hospice in 2018. In 2020 the company partnered with the investment firms Trive Capital and Coltala Holdings to widen its reach as a post-acute care company. The state’s 1.3 million seniors represent 18.3%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is mulling over the creation of a National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services (NDH). . This could include improving patient awareness and access about the end-of-life care options in and around their regions.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Oregon-based Compassion & Choices is a national end-of-life care advocacy organization focused on building health equity. Researchers at the nonprofit examined 58 studies published between 2018 and 2021 on these disparities. Hispanics made up 6.7% Caucasians represented the remaining 80%, NHPCO reported.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

of all Medicare hospice patients in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Similar to other underserved populations, fear of discrimination and mistrust are the biggest walls between Native Americans and hospice care, according to Craig Dresang, CEO of California-based YoloCares.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. Signatories on the joint letter included Leading Age, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). “We

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Later that year, the company purchased Serenity Care and Integrity Hospice in separate transactions, both in the town of Dublin, Ga. This further expansion in Georgia and South Carolina strengthens our team and solidifies our position as a leading hospice and palliative care provider across the Southeast.”.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has recommended to Congress a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. The 2021 aggregated Medicare hospice margin was 13.3%, according to MedPAC. decline from 2018. More than 49% of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice care during 2022, up from 47.3%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Concern is mounting around whether current health equity initiatives will be a flash in the pan or yield long term improvement on reducing disparities in hospice care among communities of color. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Effective Jan.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

Growing demand is pushing a need for end-of-life care in the Land of a 1,000 Lakes. Minnesota ranked 12th in the nation in hospice utilization during 2018 with 52.7% of its Medicare decedents electing hospice, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

“Like many other hospice and home health programs across the nation, as the national health care worker shortage continues and the cost of health care staff and other expenses skyrocket, we are finding it increasingly difficult to manage the rising costs of doing business.”. during 2018, according to NHPCO. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Even as demographics drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care, public awareness is driving down utilization. Nearly 50% of residents in a 2020 statewide survey indicated that they were not aware of health care services and support options available to seniors.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2023 will phase out dual-eligibility special needs look-alike plans within Medicare Advantage. Close to 12 million people in the United States qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

The health system cited declining patient admissions as the main reason for ending services. This was largely driven by trends of more serious illness and end-of-life care moving into the home, according UPMC officials. “In Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Pennsylvania reached 48.4%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Cassidy is a nurse practitioner, board-certified in palliative care, who also worked for 30 years as a professor of nursing. During her clinical practice in a hospital, she recognized that the end-of-life care needs of some patient populations were not being met. “So It’s a gap in the continuum of care.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

Hospices should apply a wide and varied lens when examining the populations in greatest need of end-of-life care, Garrett indicated. Some may be flying under hospices’ radar, she said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C. This is a small spike from 6% compared to last year’s survey.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

The survey’s findings show that while Asian Americans may think about end-of-life matters, they aren’t discussing or documenting these plans with health care professionals. Additionally, only 14% of survey respondents indicated a preference to hold advance care planning conversations with a health care professional.

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2022

Through the 18-bed facility, the hospice will provide patients inpatient end-of-life care when their symptoms can no longer be managed in the home. Patients will receive round-the-clock care from an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners and other medical aides. COVID absolutely pushed it.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Through the JV, the two organizations formed the Luminis Health Gilchrist Lifecare Institute as a way to provide an “integrative continuum of care for the elderly across multiple settings,” in communities statewide, according to a recent announcement. About 47.6% This trailed behind the national average of 50.3% that year.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Together, we set the highest standard of care to ensure everyone in our care has access to world-class, end-of-life care,” Andrea Baker, executive director at Ohio’s Hospice of Morrow County, said in an announcement. “We Commonly called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in , the demonstration took effect Jan.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A main goal of the new fellowship is to train hospice and palliative physicians to provide more diverse and inclusive serious illness and end-of-life care, according to Dr. Diana Treu, an internist affiliated with the Orlando VA Medical Center. Treu will lead the new program. Hospice utilization runs high in the Sunshine State.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Iowa in 2018 ranked seventh for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents at 56.2%, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Like in much of the country, aging demographics are driving up demand for end-of-life care in the Hawkeye State. Seniors currently represent 17.5%

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Demographic tailwinds are anticipated to drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care in Iowa. Iowa ranked seventh nationwide in hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in 2018, with 56.2% electing the benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. About 17.7%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Increasingly, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have found real value in offering community-based palliative care as a supplemental benefit. Since 2018, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has allowed MA health plans to cover supplemental benefits for eligible patients. In January 2023, 30.19

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

SEIU analyzed Medicare claims data showing that the average hospice transfer rate among HCA hospital discharges was nearly 40% above the national average in 2021 and represented a 50% growth rate over four years. 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 21, 2022

Contributing to these declines were constraints on clinical capacity stemming from the labor shortage, as well as some instances of lower reimbursement for its home health services due to the shift of more patients towards Medicare Advantage, executives said in an earnings call. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Stakeholders in end-of-life and serious illness care are urging payers to develop a national standardized quality assessment tool for hospices to bridge gaps in health equity. Senior care association LeadingAge recently penned a letter to the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Though utilization runs low compared to other states, the need for hospice care is high in Hawaii. Hospice utilization in Hawaii reached 45.4%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Similar to national trends, demand for serious illness and end-of-life care is expected to swell due to favorable demographics in the Grand Canyon State. More than 58% of Medicare descendants in the state elected hospice during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The JAMA Network Open study found that more than half of cancer decedents in states that require health care providers to offer palliative consultations died at home or at inpatient hospices versus a hospital setting. 2 ‘It’s Where We’re at Right Now’: US Prison System Struggling to Keep Up with Growing Need for Palliative Care (Aug.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. And people are getting life sentences.

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It lets medical personnel providing emergent care know the patient’s wishes at a glance. It is a common misconception that Medicare requires a DNR for patients to receive hospice benefits. Under Medicare guidelines, a DNR is *not* an eligibility requirement for hospice. As a general Medicare requirement, DNRs are optional.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Given how frequent monitoring and prescribing issues arise in the care of patients with diabetes in late life, including the end of life, Eric and I were excited when Tamryn Gray emailed us requesting a follow up podcast on this issue. Nadine, you work in also inpatient palliative care and hospice unit.

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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. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement. Vast disparities in hospice utilization exist among some groups and demographics.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. Julien: When I closed my eyes, I actually thought this is an actual recording of Chris Cornell. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy. Alex: When did he die? Eric: A while back, right?

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