Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Above & Beyond has provided home health and hospice care across eastern Iowa since 2004. Its home care services include nursing, and physical occupational and speech therapies, among others. Hospice utilization runs high in Iowa compared to other states.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

In January, hospice organizations began sounding the alarm on similar activity in other states — Arizona, Texas and Nevada. Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)

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Hospice News

MARCH 16, 2023

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has once again recommended a 20% cut to the aggregate cap for hospice payments. MedPAC has called for similar cuts annually since 2018, but to date, Congress has not implemented these reductions. The commission also called on Congress to wage adjust the cap.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. billion, a rate of 12%, Noridian indicated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

The online clinical training platform CareAcademy has developed a hospice care curriculum. The new curriculum is designed to offer “foundational orientation training” for hospice aides, nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual care providers, as well as physicians.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Other providers in the group include Kalos Health, Liberty Home Care, Hospice of Orleans and The Niagara Hospice Alliance. “It

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

“We seek to strengthen the notion that in order to provide the highest level of care for hospice beneficiaries, we must provide ongoing focus to those services that enforce CMS’ definitions of hospice and palliative care and eliminate any barriers to accessing hospice care.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care. CMS that year reduced routine home care (RHC) rates by 2.7% and increased amounts for continuous home care, general inpatient care, and inpatient respite care by the same percentage.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Other methodologies are in development or in the eary stages of implementation, including the Hospice Care Index and the forthcoming Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE). About 28% percent of those beneficiaries were in hospice for seven days or less.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) recently awarded the company a certificate of need (CON) to begin offering hospice services in that region. The company already offers home care services in that county. We provide the full scope of hospice care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

This can result in patients coming to hospice later in the course of their illnesses, according to Lee, who also serves on the board of directors at the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN). A late referral often means that the patient will not receive the full benefits of hospice care.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2024

MA enrollees were also more likely to receive hospice care and less likely to receive facility-based care after a hospital discharge, according research published in JAMA Health Forum. However, they identified gaps in which patients don’t always receive sufficient post-acute care. “We less likely to die in a hospital.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Kindred at Home has been on a circuitous journey with Humana. The insurance giant acquired 40% ownership of the home health, hospice and personal care provider in 2018, with the private equity firms Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) and TPG Capital holding the remaining 60%. Value-Based care a prime mover.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Croix Hospice since 2018, previously serving as director of marketing and communications. She has helped grow the hospice’s digital presence across a variety of media channels. Most recently the hospice opened a de novo in Wisconsin, its 14th location in that state. “We Pope has been at St.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As with other demographic groups, hospice utilization among Hispanic, Latino and Latinx populations is low in comparison to Caucasians. Latino patients are more likely to die without receiving hospice care or even information about these services, the report indicated. “We Hispanics made up 6.7%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Creating a standardized patient data collection system would go a long way towards finding and filling cracks in hospice quality and access among underserved populations, according to Katy Barnett, director of home care and hospice operations at LeadingAge.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 5, 2022

But tell us a little bit about your evolution to the home care market. And so with home care, you know, like many other decisions, we, we really start and end with a customer customer at the table and customer centricity as the core insight for how do we make business decisions. And we’ve been growing it ever since.

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Is there a difference between palliative care, hospice care and hospice palliative care? The language used by health care professionals changes and can lead to some confusion. At the same time, many people in the field refer to care provided in the community as hospice care.

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Is there a difference between palliative care, hospice care and hospice palliative care? The language used by health care professionals changes and can lead to some confusion. At the same time, many people in the field refer to care provided in the community as hospice care.

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Is there a difference between palliative care, hospice care and hospice palliative care? The language used by health care professionals changes and can lead to some confusion. At the same time, many people in the field refer to care provided in the community as hospice care.

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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. While at the bedside of hundreds of people during the dying process, a hospice pioneer. So what’s your number one takeaway for them about hospice and about end of life care?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Vast disparities in hospice utilization exist among some groups and demographics. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. How the United States Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support.

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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). Ensuring access to high-quality hospice and home care in rural communities is critical, Landers said in a statement.

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