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NHPCO Speaks Out on 2025 Proposed Medicare Hospice Rates

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in March issued its 2025 proposed hospice rule, which if finalized would include a 2.6% For example, for FY 2022, the agency used 2018 data. “We Most hospices also do not have a diversified payer mix and are dependent on the Medicare Hospice Benefit. “We

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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

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Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020.

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How an Advance Care Planning Bill Could Impact Hospice and Medicare

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and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act to the Senate designed to promote greater access to those services among Medicare beneficiaries. One potential concern about the bill would be the additional cost to Medicare through removal of the co-pays. Warner (D-Va.) Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).

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Medicare Advantage Crackdown Could Dampen Palliative Care Growth

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Federal regulators are cracking down on the private insurers that administer Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Broadly, MA plans have been expanding supplemental benefits to include palliative care since 2018, when the U.S. In turn, that could dampen the growth of palliative care supplemental benefits in MA moving forward.

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Senate Confirms Dr. Mehmet Oz as CMS Administrator

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where he will oversee the nations largest health insurance programs including the Medicare Hospice Benefit. The Medicare trust fund will be insolvent within a decade. In 2018, he was named Professor Emeritus of Surgery. taken out of your paycheck.

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

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Vice-chair Nandini Natrajan will succeed him as leader of the board, which Heath joined in 2018. One is how can we continue to diversify our services and help more people in more ways — and second, looking at how we can reduce our dependence on Medicare reimbursement.

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Hospice Market to Nearly Double by 2030; Palliative Care to See Large Gains

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billion during 2018, according to a recent Market.us Roughly 95 million people will fall into this age group by then, nearly double the 52 million seniors nationwide in 2018, PRB indicated. Often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the program is reaching the close of its second year. Forces pushing markets ahead.

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