Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Initially slated to complete in 2020, CMS later extended the program until December 2021. When deployed at scale, palliative care can help achieve many of the health care systems current goals, including reduced costs, improved patient satisfaction and quality of life. caregiver education and support), and help with shared decision-making.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

McDonald graduated in 2020 from HopeHealth’s hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program. A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

The agency cited budget neutrality requirements to explain the cuts, as well as adjustments related to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), a new payment system introduced in 2020. Margin pressures from the proposed cuts to Medicare home health rates could impact palliative care and hospice.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020. Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

A 2020 meta-analysis of 15 studies on burnout among palliative care nurses found a 24% prevalence for emotional exhaustion, 30% for depersonalization and 28% for feelings of low personal accomplishment. Ellison is also co-author of the book, Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. “At

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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. . We are starting a palliative care program in the state of Arizona.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

At a federal level, the Children’s Program of All-Inclusive Coordinated Care (ChiPACC) Act was introduced in Congress in 2020. Massachusetts legislators recently allocated more than $8.7 million in the state’s 2023 fiscal year budget to support pediatric palliative care access. Massachusetts State Sen. Last year the state appropriated $6.5

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Hospice reimbursement trends influence palliative care payment and delivery. Among the significant changes coming this year is the end of the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model, as of Dec. The North Carolina-based hospice, home health and palliative care provider is part of the Liberty Health system.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Non-Hispanic Black, Latino, American Indian and Asian or Pacific Islander patients with metastatic breast cancer were less likely to receive this care than white patients from 2004 to 2020, the study found. The Scientific Reports study examined patient data in the U.S. the researchers indicated.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

of roughly 100 heart failure patients admitted to the West Haven, Connecticut-based VA hospital between October 2019 and September 2020, according to the study’s findings , recently published in the BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care journal. Palliative care was utilized by 6.5% Palliative care was utilized by 6.5%

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

Palliative care made its first strides into the value-based care arena in 2020 when the U.S. Palliative care packs a small but meaningful punch in the value-based payment arena. . To successfully negotiate value-based contracts, hospices will need to educate payers about the value of palliative care, according to J. Cameron Muir, M.D.,

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

The hospital system originally had plans to launch the Palliative Care Serenity Unit in 2020, but the project halted temporarily during the pandemic due to limited available hospital beds and staffing pressures, Cohen stated. New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue recently launched a new palliative care unit. million patients.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Work also began to slow when COVID struck in 2020, and the council’s plans for quarterly meetings fell to twice a year. “We 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.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The clinical trial studied the impacts of a program developed by a team of researchers in 2020 dubbed the Flourishing-Life-of-Wish Virtual Reality Relaxation Therapy (FLOW-VRT-Relaxation). The VR study’s results were recently unveiled in the Frontiers Medical Technology journal. Woo was among the researchers who developed the VR therapy. “We

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Nationwide, cancer and congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities are among the leading causes of death in children between the ages of 1 and 14, according to 2020 data from the U.S. The Hearst Foundation partly financed the program with a $150,000 grant. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

of the state’s residents were 65 or older in 2020, making New York 25th that year in population growth among seniors, according to the research organization PRB. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice, and palliative care. That must change.”. About 17.4%

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

Researchers in Israel studied 180 hospitalized cancer patients between November 2018 and March 2020. Palliative care patients who receive psychological, emotional and spiritual support are more likely to elect hospice when they become eligible.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

Mettle Health took root in 2020 when hospice and palliative care physician B.J. Sierra Community Palliative Care is partnering with Mettle Health to help patients and families navigate potentially life-changing health care decisions. Miller co-founded the for-profit company with Dolan , an artist and hospice manager at the time.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

That’s up from 1,700 patients in three states as of January 2020. Prospero Health has leveraged education and responsiveness to grow its palliative care business. The Tennessee-based home-based care company provides interdisciplinary services to 30,000 seniors with complex health needs in 28 states.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

Roughly 14 million Americans are projected to have some form of dementia by 2060, triple the amount estimated in a 2020 report from the U.S. The CMS Innovation Center announced the GUIDE demonstration in July 2023. A map of approved GUIDE organizations as of July 2024, based on CMS data. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The senior care company agilon health (NYSE: AGL) will more than double the size of its palliative care program this year, with plans to leverage its robust suite of data to optimize care. agilon health CMO Dr. We can bring powerful data and care pathways. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

Nashville-headquartered Thyme Care was established towards the end of 2020 following a $16 million funding round, led by Town Hall Ventures and Foresite Capital. The oncology-focused value-based enabler Thyme Care has launched a virtual palliative care program, branded as Enhanced Supportive Care. Dr. Julia Frydman, formerly of Mt.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Amedisys began receiving calls from suitors as far back as 2020, including UnitedHealth Group. Optum swooped in with this offer after Amedisys began the process of a merger with Option Care in what would have been an all-stock deal amounting to $3.6 But the seeds of Optum acquisition were planted long before then.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For a 12-month period starting August 2020, researchers set up an embedded palliative care consultation service in a 350-bed urban community hospital that saw around 45,000 ED visits annually. Populations who most need palliative care are often chronically ill seniors with complex health conditions. ROI,” the authors found.

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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. The oncology-focused value-based enabler Thyme Care has completed a $95 million funding round that includes $55 million in equity funding. The company offers palliative care in addition to other services.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

Largely due to COVID-related disruption, this marks Amedisys’ first quarter of ADC growth since the third quarter of 2020. Hot on the heels of forming four palliative care-focused joint ventures, Contessa Health has several more in the works during the remainder of 2022. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys, Inc.

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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. If you get access to curative and palliative care, quality goes up and costs go down.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2022

Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) subsidiary Contessa Health is seeing strong patient engagement for its expanded home-based palliative care program, which the company launched in January in partnership with Mt. Sinai Health System in New York. The deal has since opened doors to new mergers and acquisitions, as well joint venture opportunities for Amedisys.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A 2020 meta-analysis of 15 studies on burnout among palliative care nurses found a 24% prevalence for emotional exhaustion, 30% for depersonalization and 28% for feelings of low personal accomplishment. The emotional toll of caring for the seriously ill contributes to high rates of burnout among palliative care workers.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

With the waiver program that came in November 2020, we’ve actually worked with Baylor Scott and White and Contessa on a hospital-at-home program. . The two companies merged in early 2021 with designs on building a seamless care continuum in the home setting and recently unified all of its business lines under the AccentCare brand.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Reimbursement pressures, workforce strains and lagging awareness represent pain points preventing greater utilization of palliative care. These factors can weigh even heavier on access and quality of life for seriously ill children and their families in need of these services. Each year an estimated 2.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In 2020, heart disease took the lives of nearly 929,000 people in the United States. Multidisciplinary palliative care offers clear benefits to patients with cardiovascular disease, particularly when it comes to medication management and goals-of-care conversations. Now we’re getting it with cardiology.” trillion, according to the CDC.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

This is up from 1,700 patients in three states in 2020. As the demand for palliative care continues to grow, so too has the way businesses have bolstered their programs to better serve patients. Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges. Enter UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

The Pine Tree State had the highest volume of seniors compared to any other state across the country in 2020, outranking only Florida and Vermont that year at 21.2% Penn Bay Medical Center is moving forward with plans to evolve its palliative care program. It has since expanded into community-based serious illness care. Census Bureau.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2022

While many ACOs have implemented systems to identify high-needs patients, few have figured out the right mix of specific care strategies to manage their care and meet their needs, according to 2020 research published in Health Affairs. . This includes reducing preventable hospitalizations and emergency department visits.

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