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Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit

Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

of patients who were discharged from hospice in 2020 did so while they were still alive, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The post Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit appeared first on Hospice News. About 15.4%

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CMS Launches GUIDE Model Demonstration With Strong Showing From Hospice, Palliative Care Participants

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 model features reimbursement for care coordination and management, respite services and caregiver education and support.

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CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care.

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Thyme Care Launches Palliative Telehealth Service for Cancer Patients

Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

The oncology-focused value-based enabler Thyme Care has launched a virtual palliative care program, branded as Enhanced Supportive Care. Cancer patients, like many other chronically ill individuals, often benefit from palliative care. Dr. Julia Frydman, formerly of Mt. Sinai Health System, will lead the new service.

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From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws. The reasons for this run the gamut.

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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Partners In Care has formed a strategic partnership with the primary and urgent care provider Summit Health aimed at increasing access to palliative care in Central Oregon. Beginning this July, Summit Health patients will have access to palliative care consultations and expanded services through the partnership. .

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‘Payment and Workforce Are Certainly the Challenges’: Forces Shaping Palliative Care’s Future

Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

The palliative care field is in the midst of evolution, with reimbursement and workforce dynamics being the dominant forces influencing sustainable growth in the space. Palliative providers are focusing their greatest efforts on navigating choppy, and often lagging, reimbursement streams to meet increased demand for serious illness care.

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CareSource Partnership with Radiant Alliance, to Combine Hospice, Palliative Care, Senior Living and Payer Assets

Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

The creation and subsequent partnership with Radiant Alliance will bring a hospice and palliative care company and senior living operator under the auspices of a payer. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare. We are the first to actually do it.”

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Hospices Facilities Launch, Renovate With Growth in Mind

Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Dubbed Julia House, the facility will provide inpatient hospice and serve as an outpatient palliative care clinic. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. The nonprofit launched a capital campaign to fuel the center’s development following its establishment in April 2020.

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Alivia Care Inc. Launches New Home-Based Care Business in Florida

Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Florida-based Alivia Care Inc. Dubbed Alivia Care @ Home, its services include home health, private duty and supportive care (community-based palliative care). Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a broader range of services.

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CMS Unveils Dementia-Focused Payment Model with Interdisciplinary Care Approach

Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Participating operators may also receive payment for respite care. However, hospice and palliative care providers that offer upstream services may be uniquely suited to implement such a model, either directly or through a partnership. Patients who have elected the Medicare Hospice Benefit are not eligible for the program.

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Hospices Gear Up to Reach More Heart Failure Patients, Enhance Quality

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). Care Dimensions is among the 15 hospice organizations to date that have secured the AHA’s Palliative and Hospice Heart Failure Certification.

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New Executives Tapped At Hospice Organizations Across Country

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. 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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Palliative Care an ‘Important Piece’ of Quality in Oncology Programs

Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Oncology practices have increasingly collaborated with palliative care providers — or built their own service lines — to better support cancer patients throughout their health care journeys. Integrating palliative care deeper into oncology practices “empowers” these providers to improve utilization and quality, she indicated.

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Avera at Home Gets Personal with Kore Cares Joint Venture

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 among Medicare decedents, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. that year.

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Fleece Takes Helm as Empath Health CEO, Begins ‘One Hospice’ Initiative

Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. Fleece came to Empath via its 2020 merger with Stratum Health, where he had been CEO.

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Why Some Referred Patients Never Make It To Hospice

Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

The company used data from the last quarter of 2020 and the third of 2021. This trend held despite over all growth in the number of individuals who had received discharge instructions to enter hospice, according to Carter Bakkum, senior data analyst for health care insights at Trella Health. . Case in point, the U.S.

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3 Nonprofit Hospice Providers to Watch in 2023

Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Last year, Ohio’s Hospice — and its palliative care arm Pure Healthcare — entered into a VBID network contract with the CVS Health Corp. Branded at Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, it provides care in more than three communities across the UCH footprint. NYSE: CVS) subsidiary Aetna.

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Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Uintah Basin

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.”. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice the Next Generation: How the Benefit Could Change

Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Now, catalysts are at work that could spur gradual movement towards system integration and care coordination. Recognition is growing among health care providers, payers and policymakers that the silos around individual care settings can drive up costs and adversely affect patient outcomes. This is down from 51.6%

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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Palliative care will be expanded. Hospice of the Panhandle has provided end-of-life services in West Virginia for more than 40 years, and also offers palliative care and pediatric hospice and palliative care. Unity Hospice and Palliative Care has served more than 30,000 patients and families since its establishment in 1992.

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VyncaCare CEO Schulte: Redesign Serious Illness Care for Patients’ Changing Needs

Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The needs of today’s seriously ill patients necessitates the development of new, longitudinal care models that integrate the patient-centered principles of hospice and palliative care, Dr. Darren Schulte, CEO of VyncaCare, told Hospice News. My last company, Apixio, we sold in 2020. The company has raised at least $40.3

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WellSky Intent on Expanding Footprint, Presence Across Care Continuum

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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St. Croix’s Strategic Executive Moves; NHPCO’s Ben Marcantonio Named Goodwin Living’s Board VP

Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Marcantonio is COO and interim CEO at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). That spring, NHPCO and Goodwin Living partnered to release a revised version of an outreach guide aimed at helping hospice and palliative care providers improve awareness and access in African American communities.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] believes that primary care is going to be the answer to this fragmented care problem. Primary care is where it’s at.” Alivia Care came into existence in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services.

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Frontline Hospice Staff Need to Understand New CMS Survey Methods

Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! These include rules pertaining to patient rights, initial comprehensive assessments, interdisciplinary care planning and care coordination.

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

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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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Startups such as Empathy, Betterleave Bereavement Care, Grief Refuge and Help Texts (formerly Grief Coach) have launched platforms designed to help families cope and assist with tasks such as funeral planning, account cancellations, legalities and financial arrangements. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked a lot about comprehensive dementia care on the GeriPal podcast but while the evidence is clear that these programs work, the uptake has been limited largely because there hasn’t been a strong financial case for it. laughter] Eric: That was back in 2020. So we had Care Ecosystem.

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Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit

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Thyme Care Launches Palliative Telehealth Service for Cancer Patients

From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

‘Payment and Workforce Are Certainly the Challenges’: Forces Shaping Palliative Care’s Future

CareSource Partnership with Radiant Alliance, to Combine Hospice, Palliative Care, Senior Living and Payer Assets

Hospices Facilities Launch, Renovate With Growth in Mind

Alivia Care Inc. Launches New Home-Based Care Business in Florida

CMS Unveils Dementia-Focused Payment Model with Interdisciplinary Care Approach

Hospices Gear Up to Reach More Heart Failure Patients, Enhance Quality

New Executives Tapped At Hospice Organizations Across Country

Palliative Care an ‘Important Piece’ of Quality in Oncology Programs

Avera at Home Gets Personal with Kore Cares Joint Venture

Fleece Takes Helm as Empath Health CEO, Begins ‘One Hospice’ Initiative

Why Some Referred Patients Never Make It To Hospice

3 Nonprofit Hospice Providers to Watch in 2023

Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Uintah Basin

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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

VyncaCare CEO Schulte: Redesign Serious Illness Care for Patients’ Changing Needs

WellSky Intent on Expanding Footprint, Presence Across Care Continuum

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