Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

New Day launched in 2020 by a group of former hospice and home health professionals. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents reached 47.79% in Missouri during 2022, with rates reaching 52.23% in Texas that year, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. Seniors 65 and older represent 18.4% of Texas’, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents reached 52.23% in Texas during 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. New Day launched in 2020, led by a group of former hospice and home health professionals. Seniors 65 and older represent 13.8% of the states overall population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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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

JUNE 3, 2022

The Medicare Part A trust fund is still on track to run short of money before the decade is out, but not as quickly as previously anticipated. By 2028, Medicare would have sufficient dollars to cover 90% of Medicare expenses. Annual raises in reimbursement and Medicare residual costs spurred the higher rate of increase.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a broader range of services. In 2022, more than 907,000 Medicare hospice decedents were older than 85, out of 1.7 To me, that’s a great opportunity.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2022

bump in Medicare payments, which they say is insufficient in light of COVID-19 and staffing headwinds. These time lags are typical for the agency’s reimbursement decisions, but the conditions that hospices have endured since early 2020 have been anything but normal. Congress should urge [the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The hospice was accused of knowingly submitting Medicare claims for patients who were not terminally ill. Respectful and appropriate end-of-life care is the crux of the hospice benefit under Medicare, said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Justice Department. Attorney Keith A.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where he will oversee the nations largest health insurance programs including the Medicare Hospice Benefit. The Medicare trust fund will be insolvent within a decade. Food and Drug Administration in 2020 revoked emergency authorization for the drug as a COVID treatment.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] to design and implement effective reforms to address fraud and poor quality providers in the industry. Susan Ponder-Stansel, CEO, Alivia Care A drive towards oversight and reform There will be continued pressure from the trade associations and Congress for [the U.S. Bartness, St.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2025

He has held senior leadership roles at Optum Rx and Optum Health since February 2020. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2011 to 2017. Conway also served as director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). Fueling growth was the companys 2023 acquisition of LHC Group for $5.4 billion.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Parker has occupied both the CEO and CMO seats since 2020, leading the company through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We also are surviving in an environment that is ultra competitive in one of the four places that has been labeled by Medicare as one where fraud and abuse is rampant.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Social and economic factors like these drive 40% of health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance. Health care providers, payers, and other stakeholders are increasingly paying more attention to both social determinants and palliative care, including Medicare and Medicaid. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2023

Nearly all hospices were nonprofit organizations at the time the Medicare benefit was established in 1982, but in terms of sheer numbers the balance has shifted toward for-profits in the intervening years. 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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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

trillion in 2021, according to a new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). 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). “The to reach $4.3

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2025

The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020. More and more patients are aging into Medicare benefits, and more and more patients are opting to age in place, which, for many folks, means their home. We are always looking for new ways of growing and partnering out there.

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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%. Spending by Medicare, hospice’s principal payer, accounted for 21% of the total national expenditures, hitting $944.3

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Hospice News

JULY 30, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled its final 2025 hospice rule, which includes a 2.9% 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.

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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. The hospice provider serves predominantly urban populations in Houston, Phoenix and Denver.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2023

New York’s hospice utilization rate was the lowest in the nation in 2020 at 24% among Medicare decedents, the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. Generally, more patients receive hospice in New York than in Utah, but they represent a smaller percentage of the total number of Medicare decedents.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on continuing evidence of hospice fraud and quality issues. Recent evidence indicates that more of these providers are being enrolled in Medicare despite CMS’ efforts to date on curbing fraud and abuse. Members of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Yesterday, the U.S.

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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. Initially slated to complete in 2020, CMS extended the program until December 2021.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

Many are unaccustomed to working with private payers as their core business is reimbursed almost entirely through the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Palliative care made its first strides into the value-based care arena in 2020 when the U.S. The CMS fee-for-service model only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) are making big inroads in the home health and palliative care markets, and hospice continues to inch in that direction. The health system reportedly generated more than $68 million in cost savings for Medicare that year. Moreover, the U.S.

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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

MAY 16, 2022

. “This would allow for greater flexibility than the current Medicare model provides.” . Often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in , the VBID demonstration project took effect January 1, 2021. The carve-in is designed to assess payer and provider performance related to hospice within Medicare Advantage.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

Increasingly, both policymakers and providers are seeing potential opportunities to reform the Medicare Hospice Benefit, including the prospect of concurrent care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). A lot has happened since the [Medicare Hospice Benefit] was first initiated. trillion , according to the U.S.

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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.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is poised to recommend that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reduce the aggregate cap for hospice payments by 20% in 2024. During 2020, about 18.6% To date, Congress has not implemented these reductions. of hospices exceeded the cap, MedPAC estimated.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a new payment model demonstration geared toward dementia-related illnesses, which are becoming more prevalent among hospice patients. Patients who have elected the Medicare Hospice Benefit are not eligible for the program.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should beef up hospice oversight, including addressing overdue surveys. Nearly 15% of surveyed hospices were cited with serious quality issues between 2020 and 2022, according to the GAO. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a new report indicated that the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Commonly known as the “carve-in,” the program was designed to test hospice care coverage through Medicare Advantage, as well as some coverage of palliative care and transitional care. Alivia Supportive Care launched in 2020 as the nonprofit’s home-based palliative care service line. It’s honestly mind blowing.”

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), they would not be able to recertify via telehealth. Also, clinicians who are not enrolled in Medicare or who validly opted out would likewise be prohibited. It also includes some exceptions. If a hospice is undergoing a period of enhanced oversight by the U.S. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

The nonprofit senior care provider Empath Health is partnering with the Medicare Advantage organization American Health Plans (AHP), a division of American Health Partners to serve patients who are enrolled in Institutional Special Needs Plans (ISNP).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As hospices prepare for Medicare Advantage, more nonprofits are finding that creating partnerships or entering affiliations will better position themselves for payer negotiations. Under VBID, the Medicare Advantage carve-in and Accountable Care Organizations, the list is quite different.” Originally slated to end next year, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Employment in the home-based care sector rose above pre-pandemic levels in 2023, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Total employment in this sector was 5% higher in July 2023 than in February 2020, MedPAC reported.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2022

Department of Justice alleged that the Indiana-based company billed Medicare separately for services that should have been covered by the hospice benefit. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), have been looking more closely at health care organizations’ billing for services delivered to hospice patients. CMS as of Oct.

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