Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Instant Care provided an extraordinary opportunity to move into non-medical home care in one of the most desirable markets in the United States.”. Veterans programs and managed care organizations also have become more involved in the space. As of 2019, the U.S.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 14, 2019

This year, the 2019 National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) conference united over 1,200 professionals who deliver or support specialty infusion – including, for the second straight year, AlayaCare. Data unlocks opportunities to get on top of scheduling – a prime source of inefficiency in any home care initiative.

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

These include the audit system created by Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014, and the two-tiered reimbursement for routine home care that reduced payment amounts after 60 days. The 2019 average for dementia patients was 126 days, compared to 92.6

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AlayaCare

AUGUST 20, 2019

It’s an opportunity to gain insight from experts in home health care, network with colleagues, and find out more about how technology can help agencies succeed in an industry evolving every year. Learn about all of the partners in AlayaCare’s growing AlayaSphere and the various ways you can grow your home care tech stack.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

RAC audits can re-examine hospice claims going back as long as three years — and more of them may be coming, according to Kelly Grahovac, general manager of The Van Halem Group, who spoke at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference. billion directly related to health care fraud abuse.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The national average hourly rate for Hospice registered nurses rose 4.58% in 2023, down from a 5.95% increase in 2022, according to a new report by the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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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. Both senators are members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Employees as advocates for your home care agency Employees are some of the best advocates for a home care agency. In home care, where attracting and retaining top talent from a shrinking pool is a reality, agencies simply can’t afford to lose that faith.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

” One key set of data pertains to the utilization of continuous home care (CHC), general inpatient care (GIP) and inpatient respite care (IRC). Despite rebasing payment rates for the higher levels of care, there still remains a high percentage of hospices that provide little to no CHC, IRC, or GIP.”

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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

APRIL 20, 2023

In total, there were at least 14 home health, hospice and home care deals reported in the first quarter of 2023, according to Mertz Taggart. Prior to then, no quarter had seen fewer than 24 transactions since the beginning of 2019. The bigger picture It’s not just hospice, home health and home care dealmaking that’s down.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

“We are building an integrated care model that holistically addresses an individual’s physical, mental and social needs, changing health care for good,” Optum at Home CEO Douglas Wenners, the founder of Prospero, said in a LinkedIn post. Wenners founded Propero Health in 2019 and took the helm at Optum at Home early last year.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

of hospice enrollees in 2019, up from 9% in 2002, according to NHPCO. The average length of stay for those patients reached 126 days in 2019, compared to 92.6 Longer lengths of stay do generate higher margins , the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported in 2019. NYSE: CHE), told Hospice News in 2019.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“If you think about how they’ve taken on strains in their capacity, these post-acute services – home health and hospice – they can get patients out of very expensive settings,” Klementz told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 Conference. Among the 1.6

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

Early conversations are positively associated with family decisions to limit or withdraw life-sustaining treatments, fewer in-hospital deaths, fewer unplanned hospital admissions, shorter hospital stays, family satisfaction with end-of-life care and increased odds of receiving strong opioid pain medications in the last 24 hours of life, according to (..)

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2022

The rebrand comes with a new motto: “The future of care. The comfort of home.”. We’re 129 years old now,” VNS Health CEO Dan Savitt told Hospice News’ sister site Home Health Care News. “We We’ve got a number of new areas that we’d like to partner with others around the country on.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2022

In 2019, more hospice patients had a principle diagnosis within the Dementia-Alzheimer’s-Parkison’s disease grouping than any other type of disease, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). In the intervening years, other diagnoses have become more prevalent among hospice patients.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2024

Hospices seeking a potential sale have varying “playbooks” for how a deal is structured, weighing many operational and financial considerations alongside care delivery impacts, Warren said at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2022

Signatories included the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Partnership for Hospice Innovation (NPHI), and the Hospice Action Network, among others. The organizations signed a letter to party leaders in both chambers of Congress.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to implement 2019 recommendations from its own Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that hospices be required to develop written plans, policies and procedures for investigating and reporting suspicions of abuse, neglect, and other harm, Forster said. NAHC also called on the U.S.

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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. In November, industry organizations called on CMS to examine the issue nationally.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Each of the major national hospice industry organizations voiced concerns about the algorithm that CMS will use beginning in 2024, including LeadingAge, the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NHPI), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually, as well as conduct face-to-face recertification visits. Researchers conducted 88 concurrent in-person and telehealth visits between June and November 2019. Congress later extended that flexibility through Dec.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been a source of controversy since CMS announced its plans for the program in 2019. Many providers saw it as a threat to the traditional Medicare benefit, with some arguing that CMS should “fix what isn’t broken.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2023

has acquired Net Health’s home health, hospice, home care and palliative business, as well as its revenue cycle monitoring (RCM). Net Health, an EMR and analytics firm, divested its HealthWyse, Hospicesoft and RCM division to refocus on its core rehab therapy and wound care lines, the company reported in a press release.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Lawmakers have an essential role in ensuring the viability of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, according to Davis Baird, director for government affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). Jimmy Panetta from California has been a long-time champion [for hospice and palliative care],” Baird said. “He

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

About 10% of hospice patients were enrolled for only two days or less during 2019, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Close to half of all hospice patients were enrolled for fewer than 18 days, and 25% received care for five days or less.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

17 deadline, including the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), LeadingAge and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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AlayaCare

JULY 5, 2022

It’s hard to imagine a market more invested in this population than home care, where demand is surging, and agencies strategize on staying competitive and capitalizing on this moment in time. The facts: baby boomers need care and residence. telehealth visits in 2020 was 63 times higher than in 2019.

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AlayaCare

JULY 4, 2022

It’s hard to imagine a market more invested in this population than home care, where demand is surging, and agencies strategize on staying competitive and capitalizing on this moment in time. The facts: baby boomers need care and residence. telehealth visits in 2020 was 63 times higher than in 2019.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2023

The letter was signed by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and LeadingAge. The SFP was among the requirements established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

These include the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), Hospice Action Network, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, among many others. 2019 only to see it flounder in the Senate.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 16, 2022

What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 According to a survey on Value-based pay by Home Health Care News (HHCN) and AlayaCare, 54% of home care providers say that currently very little of their revenue comes from value-based contracts.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 17, 2022

What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 The transition to a value-based care delivery model is projected to benefit patients, providers, payers, vendors, and society as a whole. The AlayaCare Home Care Software Solution. trillion by 2028.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

The legislation would establish fellowships through new palliative care and hospice education centers to provide short-term, intensive training, as well as incentivized award programs across all the relevant disciplines. PCHETA was first introduced in 2017 and again in 2019. I’m ever hopeful that we’ll be able to cross the finish line.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

Some in the hospice space have maintained that accreditors should be able to provide such education, but they should not be paid services, including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). In 2022, for example, CMS revamped the hospice survey process as mandated by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

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