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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could produce misinformation that could interfere with access to care. 1, 2025, could potentially lead patients away from quality providers and into the arms of bad actors in the space, according to Dr. Steven Landers, newly appointed CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made public its first cohort for the hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). Finalized in the 2024 home health payment rule, the program is designed to identify poor performing hospices, mandate quality improvement and in some cases impose additional penalties. million annually.
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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Hospices flagged by the SFP also will be surveyed every six months rather than the current three-year cycle and could face monetary penalties or expulsion from the Medicare program. When it comes to end-of-life care, you only have one chance to get it right,” Van Duyne said in a statement emailed to Hospice News.
Hospice News
MARCH 4, 2025
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Deal volume for non-medical home care companies outstripped that for hospice or home health during the first half of the year. As of the end of Q2, this included 23 deals compared to 17 each for Medicare-certified home health and for hospice, according to a report by M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart.
Hospice News
JANUARY 3, 2025
among Medicare decedents in 2023, up more than two percentage points from the prior year, according to recent data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). This is the highest rate since 2019. Total Medicare hospice payments in 2023 reached $25.7 Coupled with these trends is rising utilization.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The first was two July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Investigations have shown that potentially hundreds of newly licensed hospices have bilked Medicare of millions of dollars during the past several years, all while providing egregiously poor care or none at all.
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