Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hospice leaders will need to keep their eyes on five key trends in the new year when it comes to compliance, business operations and finance. Hospice utilization reached 51.7% This is the highest rate since 2019. Total Medicare hospice payments in 2023 reached $25.7 Coupled with these trends is rising utilization.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

By Lama El Zein There is an increasingly broad push for a movement towards improving the quality of care at a lower cost for everyone, but especially for patients with serious illnesses, given the historically high cost of their care. Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings. 2019.13978

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Offering hospice can be a gamechanger for skilled nursing and assisted living operators looking to stand out from competitors and improve patient reach. Home-based care, including hospice, has become an increasingly attractive space for facility-based health care providers of all walks. Among the 1.6

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The possibility exists that hospice care will change more in the next few years than it has during the previous four decades. The Medicare Hospice Benefit turned 40-years-old in 2022, and in that time the program has remained fundamentally unchanged.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

A range of factors contributes to the lag between what people value and what they do when it comes to advance care planning, in addition to general fear or discomfort with the subject. Poor care coordination can adversely impact utilization, as can the variation among states and health care organizations in how they manage these processes.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Advance care planning by necessity occurs upstream of hospice, but those providers nevertheless have a role to play in helping patients and families understand the importance of making their end-of-life wishes known. I think everybody in hospice and palliative care has to be really vocal about this. That’s hard to do.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Serious health-related suffering is projected to crease by 183% globally among seniors 70 and older by 2060, a trend driven by rises in mortality rates among cancer patients and individuals with dementia conditions, according to a 2019 study published in The Lancet Global Health.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

Amanda Sternklar ( 01:03 ): Since 2019, homo has achieved over 90% unit growth and expanded its footprint into more than 30 new states. Laura is the executive Vice President of Home Well Care Services. Now, for those of us in home care, you know, we know original Medicare is not a payer for us.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

These cover the innovative partnerships, new technologies, pediatric care, health equity and other key developments in the hospice space. Pandemic Pushes Death Doula Awareness, Hospices Seek Strengthened Ties. In 2019, the organization had just 200 members.

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