Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

NPHI is a national advocacy organization with more than 100 nonprofit advanced illness care providers, including those offering hospice and palliative care services. Muir joined the organization in 2019 as its chief of clinical innovations. Muir was previously chief innovation officer at Capital Caring Health.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

of hospice enrollees in 2019, up from 9% in 2002, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The average length of stay for those patients reached 126 days in 2019, compared to 92.6 Dementia patients represented 20.9% days for the overall hospice population.

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2023

“Federal restrictions have obstructed access to end-of-life care for too long, this legislation will change that and ensure that all patients have the Right to Try,” Blumenauer said in a statement. Psychedelics have become a hot topic in health care, particularly as it pertains to mental health care and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Rosen and Murkowski, initially tried to pass the palliative care training bill in 2019, and then again 2021. That is why I have supported legislation that will allow more patients access to the highest quality of end-of-life care.” The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) manages the initiative.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Researchers have identified a number of potential clinical benefits, including reduction of anxiety, depression and improved acceptance of mortality, according to a 2019 literature review in the journal Current Oncology. Momentum has been building towards the decriminalization of psychedelics, often for medical use.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

In addition, the legislation would require staff from Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) who perform medical review of hospice care to receive specialized training in the philosophy that underlies those services, as well as education about determining prognosis, beginning in 2027. 1, 2019 and Dec.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The study , published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, examined home health and hospice care outcomes during the last three years of life among more than 2.1 million Medicare decedents who died in 2019. million Medicare decedents who utilized hospice in 2019, about 591,272 had dementia, the research found.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2022

If enacted, the bill would clarify that patients receiving end-of-life care could access Schedule 1 controlled substances that have undergone a Phase 1 clinical trial, including MDMA and psilocybin. Unfortunately, many eligible patients who urgently need care do not currently have access to these promising therapies.” .

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Our shared approaches to serving patients advocate for care with the highest quality of life possible, including in-home services for patients with chronic illnesses and home-based end-of-life care.” Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

EOLDs have had a growing presence in the serious illness and end-of-life care space, but their services are not reimbursed by Medicare or other insurance, according to Jane Euler, co-founder and chief doula of Present for You LLC. However, building these collaborations has come with financial barriers.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

between 2017 and 2019, with a greater decrease among rural communities compared to urban areas, according to a report from The Center for Rural Pennsylvania. LPNs provide quality and essential care during a highly emotional time for patients and their families,” Culver said. The number of hospice providers in Pennsylvania dropped by 4.7%

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2024

After three years of investigation, a federal court in Louisiana has sentenced the former owner of Canon Healthcare, Shiva Akula, to serve 240 months in prison for his involvement in health care fraud. The charges included fraudulent claims for physician services and home visits, as well as manipulation of Medicare billing codes.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While private residences are the most frequently occurring location of care for hospice patients, long-term care facilities come in second, followed by assisted living facilities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Both Boozeman and Rosen serve on the Senate’s Special Committee on Aging.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While many in the hospice space agree that evolution is needed to help ensure quality end-of-life care outcomes, conflicting views swirl around how regulatory requirements and associated processes could get us there. Regulators and hospice providers share a common goal of ensuring quality end-of-life care experiences.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2022

Self-preservation is “paramount” to working in serious illness and end-of-life care, according to new research published in the Journal of Death and Dying. Furthermore, this may also educate aspiring end-of-life care staff in preparation for the reality of hospice environments.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, which purchased the provider from Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2019 for an undisclosed sum. The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020. Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2019, the nation’s 420,000 trained hospice volunteers generated more than $469 million in annual savings, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. Volunteers also help reduce providers’ costs. Hospice of Santa Cruz County has turned to local educators to help shore up its volunteer resources.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The health care sector accounted for 18.3% While health care accounted for a smaller piece of the pie, expenditures were still higher than the 17.6% share in 2019. Published annually at the end of the year, the analysis does not specifically call out hospice expenditures. of the U.S. economy in 2021, down from 19.7%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

A significant number of health care providers may not understand federal rules for billing advance care planning, contributing to an estimated $42.3 million in improper payments in 2019. OIG found that — out of a sample of 691 ACP claims from 2019 — close to 70% (466) did not comply with requirements.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Angela’s Hospice provides end-of-life care to adult and pediatric patient populations. Established in 1985, the faith-based nonprofit also offers palliative care, grief support and virtual telehealth hospice services to caregivers and patients. For nearly 50 years, this organization has delivered on that mission.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

The health system cited declining patient admissions as the main reason for ending services. This was largely driven by trends of more serious illness and end-of-life care moving into the home, according UPMC officials. “In ” UPMC in 2019 merged with Somerset Hospital.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

The survey’s findings show that while Asian Americans may think about end-of-life matters, they aren’t discussing or documenting these plans with health care professionals. Additionally, only 14% of survey respondents indicated a preference to hold advance care planning conversations with a health care professional.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

CMS used 2019 data that included wages and cost reports to calculate the rate. Lagging reimbursement and sequestration’s impacts on hospice payment only add to the mix of instability for providers, according to Ben Marcantonio, acting CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). “If It included a 2.7%

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis, the organization rebranded in 2020 to reflect its expanded scope of community-based services in an area with a growing need for serious illness and end-of-life care. among Medicare decedents, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Formerly Hospice of St. and 59.2%, respectively.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.”. A second driving force behind California’s crackdown is the two 2019 reports from the U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

bump from FY 2019. Beneficiaries receiving hospice services from for-profit hospices had, on average, 60 percent higher non-hospice spending per day compared to beneficiaries under non-profit hospice care,” CMS indicated in the rule language. Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

The state sharpened its gaze on the hospice space in the wake of two 2019 OIG reports showing that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious patient safety risk. “The

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

The state sharpened its gaze on the hospice space in the wake of two 2019 OIG reports showing that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious patient safety risk. “The

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The hospice provider purchased its first mobile care unit in 2019 through funding support, seeing a growing need for more emergency medical transportation and services. Most medical, nursing and social work students receive little training in hospice and palliative care during the course of their education.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can have an impact on mortality and morbidity among seriously ill patients, according to researchers of a 2019 study published in the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy. Documentation errors and a fragmented health system pose the greatest risks for adverse drug events among hospices.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Through the JV, the two organizations formed the Luminis Health Gilchrist Lifecare Institute as a way to provide an “integrative continuum of care for the elderly across multiple settings,” in communities statewide, according to a recent announcement. Luminis Health was established in 2019 and generates an annual $1.1 About 47.6%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

The home-based care provider has widened its footprint across the Pacific Northwest area, accelerating its expansion plans during the last four years. Recent growth has included the addition of eight locations in 2019 in that region. Seniors 65 and older represent 16.8%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

WHPCA was then formed, and one of the first things we did was set a day aside for global recognition, because most of every major issue in health care worldwide centered around what was happening in the last years of life.”. Case in point, as many as 71% of the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

million Medicare decedents who elected hospice in 2019,, nearly half (49%) received care in private homes, reported the Center for Medicare Advocacy. Data are not available for how any of these patients were cared for by a freestanding hospice entering those settings versus an in-house service. Among the 1.6

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JUNE 1, 2023

“Closing the inpatient facility will allow Hospice Ministries to put more focus on providing end of life care to patients in their ‘homes,’ whether it be their personal residence, a nursing home, or an assisted living facility.” The hospice provides home- and facility-based end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

OpusCare began its search for a location nearly six years ago and purchased the land in 2019, according to Roque-Velasco. OpusCare persisted in its efforts on opening the center in response to rising demand and the need for Rising demand and the need for expanded end-of-life care for patients.

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