Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is poised to recommend that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reduce the aggregate cap for hospice payments by 20% in 2024. The commission has yet to vote on the recommendations, but MedPAC has called for similar cuts annually since 2018.

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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.

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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

JULY 17, 2023

Heightened scrutiny around hospice from regulatory agencies is not without warrant, but increased oversight can have adverse effects on the ability to provide quality care, according to Bill Dombi, president, National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Some of these providers have secured licenses, as well as Medicare certification and, sometimes, accreditation. They then proceed to enroll a small number of patients for whom they never bill Medicare, multiple hospice executives told Hospice News on background. By not billing, they are better able to avoid regulators’ attention.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Utah-headquartered Canyon Home Care & Hospice has acquired Arizona-based internal medicine practice Thomas G. Internists specialize in caring for patients with cancer and infections or diseases affecting the heart, blood, lungs, kidneys, joints, or digestive tracts. “We Dallman, M.D., LLC for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Hospices seeking to gauge the potential impact of new regulatory actions in the space can look to their counterparts in the home health field. CMS is no doubt hoping for similar results for the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Their recommendations included a temporary moratorium on new hospices enrolling in Medicare.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“By expanding access to care in the home, we empower individuals to make decisions about their care that are in line with their goals and priorities,” Hoing said. The JV is currently honing its focus on expanding access to home care for seniors across South Dakota. Seniors are projected to make up 27.5%

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The deal includes MercyOne’s hospice, infusion and home care locations. Established in 1998, MercyOne’s health system consists of 16 medical centers, 27 affiliate organizations and more than 420 care sites, employing 2,000 physicians and care providers who serve upwards of 3.3 million patients annually. Census Bureau.

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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. The post Trinity Health at Home Acquires Above & Beyond Home Health Care and Hospice appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Senate’s Comprehensive Care Caucus have asked federal regulators to examine program integrity within the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Medicare fraud cannot be tolerated, especially when it is being perpetrated on our nation’s most vulnerable patients,” the senators wrote. Leaders of the U.S. The four senators wrote to the U.S.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As AlayaCare has grown, we’ve had the privilege of observing how health systems around the world are organizing to keep seniors and chronically or acutely ill patients receiving care and convalescing in their preferred setting: at home. Everywhere we look, home care is growing at double-digit percentages. in 2009 to 65.7%

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

A total of 109 transactions in the hospice and home health space involved a hospital and health system from 2014 to 2021, according to market analysis data that The Braff Group shared with Hospice News. The number of deals in 2017 and 2018 hit 20 and 19, respectively, before slumping downward during the pandemic in recent years.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mecklenburg County has six licensed hospice providers, according to data shared with Hospice News by the Association for Home Care & Hospice of North Carolina (AHHC-NC). About 28 Medicare-certified hospices have established services in the community and surrounding areas, serving roughly 1.175 million individuals.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Humana’s two Kindred at Home transactions added notches to the company’s belt as it expands its value-based care portfolio as both a provider and payer. The divestiture fits into Humana’s stated goal of raising its enterprise value by $1 billion , while building out its health care services and Medicare Advantage business.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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AlayaCare

JULY 7, 2019

This is the flagship event for the Home Care Association of Florida, which is celebrating 30 years of serving the state’s home care providers and vendors. This includes over 16 million adults, of whom nearly four million are seniors – who we know are the main recipients of home and continued care.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I started out at a company called American Hospital Supply Corporation back in the 70s when hospitals were the center of all health care. At that time, the company was predicting home care would be the future — obviously, they were right. Of course, it still remains the lowest cost setting for the delivery of health care.

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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 Are You Prepared?

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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). Routine home care days comprise 97.6% 3% of care days).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

Medicare reimbursement is the lifeblood of hospice providers, and a clear understanding of policies like budget neutrality can help elucidate the payment systems that keep their businesses running. The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) star ratings system for hospice quality may have unintended consequences for small providers. CMS began posting star ratings for hospices on its Care Compare website last month. The post Small Hospices at a Disadvantage in Medicare Star Ratings appeared first on Hospice News.

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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. However, they identified gaps in which patients don’t always receive sufficient post-acute care. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care. The study spanned data among 199,828 Medicare decedents 50 and older who died in 2018. More than half (59%) spent the last three years of life in the home. This compared to a trend of more facility-based care utilization in the Midwest.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

Most students in clinical disciplines do not feel prepared to provide family care at the end of life, according to a 2018 study. The hospice and palliative care professional fields need a “catapult” forward to expand and meet rising demand for care, and PCHETA is a great start towards improvement, Joe Rotella, M.D.,

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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

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. Hospice utilization runs high in Florida. respectively.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Payne founded the company in 2018 after selling her house for startup capital. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) requirement that hospices provide bereavement care for 13 months following a patient’s death. So we decided to do both, and that meant that Grief Coach as a name really no longer applied.” .

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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

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. Last month CMS began posting hospice star ratings on its Care Compare website.

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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. Hospice takes care of people with life-threatening illnesses that are no longer wanting treatment. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. 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. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement. Vast disparities in hospice utilization exist among some groups and demographics.

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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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