Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

While hospice and home health M&A continue to burgeon, non-medical home care is starting to slip out from under their shadows. Deal volume for non-medical home care companies outstripped that for hospice or home health during the first half of the year. The case for non-medical home care investment.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) recently re-introduced legislation designed to expand the palliative care workforce. The bipartisan-supported Provider Training in Palliative Care Act aims to increase the number of clinicians trained in palliative care as long-standing labor shortages continue to hinder access. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)

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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 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). He also wrote some sections of the Affordable Care Act. But for now, his work in Congress continues.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Often called the “hospice carve-in,” the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, in addition to some coverage of palliative care and transitional care. The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been a source of controversy since CMS announced its plans for the program in 2019.

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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. The training issue is a serious impediment to hospice recruitment, as very few students in any clinical discipline receive exposure to hospice or palliative care concepts.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

Both Landmark and Prospero are major palliative care providers in addition to their other medical services. billion purchase of the home health and hospice giant LHC Group. “We Wenners founded Propero Health in 2019 and took the helm at Optum at Home early last year.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In addition to oversee AccentCare’s hospice and palliative care programs, he will also support its clinical care operations and patient experience initiatives. Prior to joining AccentCare, Natarajan founded Chicago Primary Care Sports Medicine. The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

If enacted the bill would significantly expand federal resources to support advance care planning and end-of-life care decision making. The legislation would also finance public awareness campaigns about hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

Hospices have been advocating for lawmakers and regulators to take action on curbing fraud, supporting veterans and bolstering the health care workforce. Blumenauer announced the bill, the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, at the Hospice News Elevate conference in Washington D.C.

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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

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 They rolled out the program across roughly 75% of its mid-Atlantic facilities.

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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

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). A clear example is dementia-related illnesses, which have a much less predictable trajectory than most cancers.

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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 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

JUNE 3, 2022

The senior care provider, now rebranded as VNS Health, is ready for expansion. . The home health, hospice and palliative care provider is among the largest nonprofit home-based care providers in the nation, serving close to 40,000 patients and health plan members. The comfort of home.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

Stakeholders in the hospice space are optimistic that Congress will pass the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). PCHETA was first introduced in 2017 and again in 2019. PCHETA] was desperately needed when it was first introduced, and it is needed even more now. Third time’s a charm?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), for instance, filed an amicus brief with the court. 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 NYSE: CHE), told Hospice News in 2019.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities. Agrace Expands Medical Team.

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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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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

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

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

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. The halt on licensing took effect Jan.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The three HCPCS codes were initially rolled out for the VA in 2019 after previous spiritual care billing codes were discontinued in 2014. This validation will also assist in bringing top talent into these roles.” Without those codes, it had become difficult for VA facilities to hire chaplains.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

In public comments on the proposed 2024 payment rule, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) estimated that a total 6.5% I could use some of those dollars to run multiple modalities in the home, if we had a payer system that understood that that was where we would get the most benefit.” reduction.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

These trends are a particular pain point for hospice and palliative care providers, according to Nick Seabrook, managing principal and senior vice president at SimiTree Healthcare Consulting. Organizational culture will be a crucial factor in the recruitment and retention of younger health care workers, he said.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The SFP program was developed in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. CMS has updated its processes for hospice surveyor training, but it remains unclear whether, at this point, a sufficient number of those personnel have received that education.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

In part, the trend of more hospitals and health systems in hospice is a response to growing demand and strain on acute care services. More health systems are looking to expand into community-based hospice and palliative care to complement existing offerings while creating new care delivery channels.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Bassett Healthcare Network is an integrated health system that includes five hospitals, a home health agency and two skilled nursing facilities, as well as dozens of community-based health centers and school-based health centers. Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2022

An overwhelming majority of hospice providers have seen costs of patient care rise 3% to 10% since 2019, and many expect further increases next year. Admission liaisons, nurses, aides and IT staff saw the largest increases, according to the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

.” – Mollie Gurian, vice president, home-based and HCBS policy, LeadingAge Focus on improving quality, program integrity The government’s new policies were designed to achieve two objectives — to improve patient safety and to rein in fraudulent hospice providers in four states. The bill was spurred by the two 2019 OIG reports.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

“Some of the indicators are that hospice will become more integrated into the health care system from the provider standpoint, but also from the payer standpoint,” National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) COO and interim CEO Ben Marcantonio told Hospice News. “I Much of the debate has centered around regulation.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Alex Ferguson has stepped into the role of senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Agape Care Group. The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. and Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support. Comfort has been Calvary Hospital’s COO since 2019. The organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Similar concerns have emerged in Texas, Nevada, and Arizona, according to a letter to LaSure by hospice industry groups, LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI).

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