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While Supportive Care in Cancer has been around for a while, it is new to Twitter, and has already been gaining followers at a rapid pace since debuting in Fall 2020. ErinMichos) August 20, 2020 What is interesting to me is that not all the journals follow each other on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/CEFrLKmLmr — Erin D. Michos, M.D.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2024

National hospice utilization rates have fallen since 2020, though the total number of patients served remains consistent. This utilization rate is similar to what was seen in calendar year 2020. million Medicare beneficiaries in 2020. About 47.3% About 47.3% In 2021, 1.71

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Researchers analyzed data on hospice acquisitions between 2013 and 2020 to compare changes in sites of care or patient population compared to other for-profits that did not undergo a transaction. A little more than 20% of hospice decedents in 2020 suffered from dementia, up from 18.5%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

New Day launched in 2020 by a group of former hospice and home health professionals. Intrepid has two locations in Beaumont, Texas, where the company provides home-based hospice, palliative and supportive care services. The company provides hospice care at home through its location in Joplin, Missouri.

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Hospice News

JUNE 19, 2024

Silverstone came on the scene in 2020 as a standalone hospice after CEO Alfonso Montiel’s purchase and rebranding of Comfort Care Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. The company’s annual revenues have increased 15x since its founding in 2020, according to Montiel. The company expects to launch a personal care operation this month.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Reimbursement, regulatory trends Hospice valuations and M&A activity burgeoned in previous years, reaching record highs in 2019 and 2020. Amid the factors was a decline in interest rates, which lowered for the first time since March 2020 and made for a more favorable financial climate among buyers.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The company has a history of completing its own acquisitions, including the 2020 purchase of California-based Superior Healthcare, also a DME provider. Medicare in 2020 spent $11.2 The following year, Hospice Source acquired Respiratory Therapy Home Care in Bellflower, Calif. Financial terms for both of these deals were undisclosed.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2024

during 2020 and 2021, up from 30.1% One such is the COVID-19 pandemic, declared a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020 and with the end of its emergency phase on 5 May 2023,” the study indicated. The study focused on cancer and dementia patients. Worldwide, the percentage of home deaths rose to 32.2%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2020, the growth rate was 10.6%, according to a report published in Health Affairs. The proportion of health care spending relative to the overall economy was 17.3%, also down from 2020’s rate of 19.5%. The nation’s annual health care spend reached $4.5 trillion in 2022, a 4.15 increase, compared to 3.1% the prior year.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Fueling the expansion are two affiliation-building strategies that Chapters introduced in 2020, the Chapter Health Managed Service Organization (MSO) program and Chapters CareNu.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

seen in 2020, with the slowdown largely attributed to reduced spending on COVID-19 support, including Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and the Provider Relief Fund (PRF). These sources continue to provide funding in 2021, but at much lower levels and in 2020.”. in 2020, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

Based on 2020 U.S. Hawaii ranked 22nd in 2020 for hospice utilization among the states at 48%, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. California-headquartered Kaiser Permanente Health System provides care to 12.6 million people across eight states and the District of Columbia. billion in 2021.

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Hospice News

JULY 30, 2024

The company launched in 2020. After.com plans to deploy the funds to support further hiring, expansion to new markets and enhance its marketing efforts to build out its pre-need and at-need business segments. Its platform allows families to pre-plan or arrange cremation and funeral services via the internet.

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Healthcare Law Insights podcast

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In this episode, we share a lively discussion with colleague Jon Anderson on what should be front of mind for hospices in 2020 from a labor and employment perspective. In this episode, we share a lively discussion with colleague Jon Anderson on what should be front of mind for hospices in 2020 from a labor and employment perspective.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2024

In 2020, heart disease took the lives of nearly 929,000 people in the United States. Di Palo is also assistant professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and chair of the AHA’s scientific statement writing group. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A major achievement during Rodgers’ tenure at the Dallas-based hospice, home health and palliative care provider was the company’s 2020 merger with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative. Tortorella, his successor, has been COO at Steward Health Care since November of 2020.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Lumicare Hospice received its Medicare certification in 2020, according to National Hospice Locator data. among Medicare decedents in 2020, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. “We are thrilled to be providing services in Colorado and excited to expand on our current footprint in Texas and Arizona.”

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Hospice News

MAY 28, 2024

” Phoenix-based Stoneridge Hospice was founded in 2020 by Rollie Seebert, owner and executive manager of Stoneridge Hospice, his wife, Janet Seebert, director of nursing at Stoneridge Hospice, and Bratzel, a registered nurse who became co-owner and executive director.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2023

The number of hospices operating in the United States rose to 5,058 in 2020, the most recent year for which data are available, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported. hospices between 2019 and 2020. Of those, about 73% were for-profit companies, and 24% were nonprofits. These numbers reflect a 4.5%

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2020: Wave 1 follow up to the 2017 survey. Internet] 2020 [cited 2024 September 5]. The Good Childhood Report 2020 [Internet] 2020 [cited 2024 September 5]. Available from: [link] Children’s Society. Available from: [link] Marmot, M. Goldblatt, P. Morrison, J.

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Hospice News

JULY 30, 2024

The capitated amount was finalized in the FY 2020 final hospice rule, which prevents a geographic area’s wage index from falling below 95% of its wage index calculated in the prior fiscal year. The agency set a 5% cap on any year-over-year wage index decrease that hospices experience.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

Things improved in 2020, the most recent year for which data are available, but not enough to put them in the black. million in 2020, according to its IRS 990s. But the following year, it reported a more than $1.5 million loss, according to 990 forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

Initially slated to complete in 2020, CMS extended the program until December 2021. . The recent report focuses on 4,574 Medicare beneficiaries who enrolled in the program between January 2016 and September 2020 and who died by March of 2021. ” Despite these acknowledgments, signs point towards positive results.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

Hospice multiples broke records in 2020, 2021 and 2022, reaching as high as 29x. The national hospice utilization rate did take an uncharacteristic dip in 2020, to 47.8% Nevertheless, more people did choose hospice in 2020 — 1.72 So the question is: Is that just a general change in hospice?” This is down from 51.6%

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020. We started initially as a home health agency [Southland Home Care], then sold it in 2020 and began talking about opening a hospice.

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Hospice Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2019

On August 6, 2019, CMS finalized its 2020 hospice rule , including adopting, without substantial modification, two controversial and material changes to the hospice benefit: Rebasing payment rates to shift about $500 million from routine care to enhanced levels of care including general inpatient, continuous, and respite care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

The most recent example is the 2020 implementation of the Patient-driven Groupings Model (PDGM). Uncertain about how this new payment system would impact their businesses, a number of strategic buyers shifted their 2020-2021 M&A pipelines towards their hospice segments. “At

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Palliative care made its first strides into the value-based care arena in 2020 when the U.S. These are typically services provided in the home, though some operate palliative care clinics as well. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to start covering it as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

” This was New Day’s ninth acquisition since the company was established in 2020. “This latest acquisition continues to prove New Day’s commitment to bringing together multiple home health service lines within markets to improve patient care coordination and outcomes.” The following year, the company secured $55.5

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

More than 20% of hospice decedents in 2020 suffered from dementia, up from 18.5% of terminal diagnoses in 2020, while cancer accounted for 7.2%. Dementia patients also tend to have the longest average lengths of stay in hospice — 181 days in 2020, compared to an average 97 days among all patients.

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Healthcare Law Insights podcast

JUNE 10, 2020

Those requirements are set to become effective as early as October 1, 2020. For resources related to this episode, please see the following: CMS, FY 2021 Hospice Wage Index Proposed Rule CMS, Proposed Modifications to Model Election Statement and New Model Addendum CMS, FY 2020 Hospice Wage Index Final Rule.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Seniors 60 and older are projected to represent nearly a third (27%) of South Carolina’s overall population by 2030, a 5% rise from 2020, the U.S. Demographic trends are fueling BoldAge’s strategic growth. Census Bureau reported. that year, according to National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

Nearly 15% of surveyed hospices were cited with serious quality issues between 2020 and 2022, according to the GAO. To date, CMS has fully implemented five and partially implemented three of eight provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), though quality issues persist in the hospice space. Most had multiple deficiencies.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The company also operates a large ACO that in 2020 received the second highest payout among 513 participants in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), according to CMS. Tortorella ascended to Steward’s c-suite in November 2020 after more than a decade with the company. All told, the company covers close to 1.5

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Grant Avenue Capital, Fortis’ private equity backer, financed the deal, which is the company’s fourth since its founding in 2020. The company also operates Valeo Home Health and Hospice and Select Home Health, which Grant Avenue acquired in late 2020 and 2021, respectively. Financial terms of the transaction were undisclosed.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Thyme Care was established toward the end of 2020 following a $16 million funding round, led by Town Hall Ventures and Foresite Capital. In May, the Nashville-headquartered company secured an investment from Echo Health Ventures and CVS Health Ventures to scale its value-based oncology care model. The dollar amount was undisclosed.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Total employment in this sector was 5% higher in July 2023 than in February 2020, MedPAC reported. Department of Commerce defines this sector to include hospices, home health agencies, private duty, pediatric agencies and other providers of care in the home.

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