Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Its services include nursing care, meal preparation, companionship, housekeeping, transportation, assistance with activities of daily living and companionship, and a senior care coordination program. “By Even as demographics drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care, public awareness is driving down utilization.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“The investment in Uintah Basin Home Health and Hospice will allow us to enhance the care coordination with Uintah Basin Medical Center and provide better health outcomes for the patients and clients we serve in the Uintah Basin area.”. Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

It can be difficult to find qualified, experienced palliative staff members that understand the full scope of interdisciplinary care involved, Bowman stated. Other reimbursement options exist in payment arrangements with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Managed Services Organizations (MSOs).

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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. To an extent, it has also segregated hospice from the rest of the health care system.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) raised hospice per diems by 3.8% As providers try to keep pace, h ospice workers have seen wage increases of 3% to 6% since the start of the pandemic in spring 2020, according to NAHC. Some in the space have voiced concern that reimbursement has not kept pace with the headwinds.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

As of 2020, those individuals represented only about 10% of Medicare decedents who elected hospice, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The number of people who suffer from heart failure is expected to rise by 46% between 2012 and 2023, the American Heart Association (AHA) reported.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

He first joined that company as its executive vice president of clinical services and CMO in 2002 while holding a similar role at Hospice of the Piedmont from 2019 to 2020. There he helped to develop standardized approaches to claims analytics, quality measurement and care coordination strategies aimed at improving cost-savings.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

Underlying the company’s strategy is a drive to develop solutions designed to support patient care as consumers navigate their way through the health care system. WellSky is jointly owned by two private equity firms, TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners, per an agreement made in July 2020. That was a gut-check decision.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Its business model uses a mix of virtual palliative care, advance care planning, care coordination and symptom management services, among others. As my fourth company or health care startup, [Vynca’s] is more of a tech-enabled clinical services company. My last company, Apixio, we sold in 2020.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Though nonprofit hospices now represent a smaller slice of the industry than in years past, they continue to care for more than half of patients in the United States who elect the benefit. The number of hospices operating nationwide rose to 5,3,58 in 2021, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

“We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Having staff trained in this approach can help seriously ill patients have greater “peace and presence” during critical times of suffering in their health, Wu previously told Palliative Care News. Also in 2020 came the launch of partnership between Livio Health and cancer care provider Minnesota Oncology.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) efforts to revamp the process, aimed at improving the quality of care. These include rules pertaining to patient rights, initial comprehensive assessments, interdisciplinary care planning and care coordination. The pandemic temporarily stalled the U.S.

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Nurse.com

MAY 9, 2022

In this model, nurses provide not only care but also coordination of care and can develop patient-focused care plans, which is necessary to keep everything running smoothly, according to Whitfield. Another nurse and I were the daytime care coordinators,” Whitfield said. Children’s hospitals in the U.S.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 28, 2022

April 2022, however, also brings us a renewed approach and initiatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its National Quality Strategy. Incentivize Innovation & Technology : Accelerate innovation in care delivery and incorporate technology enhancements (e.g. What is the CMS National Quality Strategy?

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Non-compliance results in hefty fines of up to $1 million per violation, as enforced by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)​ ( Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services )​​. These laws empower consumers by ensuring they can access and control their health data, facilitating better-informed decisions and coordinated care.”

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) has launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model with close to 400 participating organizations, including many palliative care providers. The CMS Innovation Center announced the GUIDE demonstration in July 2023.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement. Vast disparities in hospice utilization exist among some groups and demographics.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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