Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The SFP was among the requirements established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Congress included the language in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

million women in the United States had some type of breast cancer in 2021, according to research from the National Cancer Institute. Palliative care is about the complexity of need … [Providers] need to figure out a pathway for patients who will be long-term survivors with an active disease, ongoing treatments and need various resources.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2025

The seed for Texas-based Pallicare was planted at a chance meeting at a 2021 conference between Jonathan Fluhart, a management professional with a background in aerospace, technology, and hospice industries, and nurse practitioner Tiffany Hughes.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

The 2021 aggregated Medicare hospice margin was 10.4%, according to MedPAC. Based on the positive indicators of payment adequacy and strong margins, the Commission concludes that current payment rates are sufficient to support the provision of high-quality care without an increase to the payment rates in 2025, MedPAC indicated in its report.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2025

California became the first of the four fraud hotbed states to take regulatory action in 2021. Implementing a moratorium in Nevada could potentially pose harmful impacts for legitimate new operators seeking to expand hospice access, particularly in rural regions with limited resources, according to Edgeworth.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Perhaps the new administration will reinstate the Seriously Ill Population program that was terminated immediately prior to launch in 2021. Pre-end-of-life palliative care is a large gap in the care continuum. Sadly, we believe that meaningful change in palliative care creating consistency and increased adoption remains several years away.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

and spiritual care providers during the pandemic.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Congress mandated the SFP in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 , which contained language from the Helping Our Senior Population in Comfort Environments (HOSPICE) Act. Ill continue fighting to ensure families have access to the high-quality care they deserve and that CMS fixes these issues.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Choice Health at Home has completed nearly 50 deals since its founding, and 20 since Coltala and Trive recapitalized the company in 2021. Within that, we’re really intent on providing care in rural and urban settings, and this gives us the opportunity to do so.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Hamilton Fried joins Kirva Hospice after serving as president and CEO of Blue Ridge Hospice since 2021, stepping down from the role in January. King has led the organization since 2021. The organizations name is a Hebrew word that means closeness, caring. and companionship. Bouton will ascend to the new position as of Jan.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Congress mandated the SFP in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 , which contained language from the Helping Our Senior Population in Comfort Environments (HOSPICE) Act. This was in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Nursemind Owner Zenia Chavez and her nephew Rual Alenjandro Fuentes were arrested in 2021 for their involvement in the hospice fraud scheme. He has agreed to cooperate with an ongoing criminal investigation and to testify truthfully in any resulting criminal prosecutions, among other efforts, the department indicated.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Congress mandated the SFP in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 , which contained language from the Helping Our Senior Population in Comfort Environments (HOSPICE) Act. In addition to star ratings, starting in 2025 CAPHS scores will factor into CMS algorithm for identifying hospices for its new Special Focus Program (SFP).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

CAPC surveyed 150,000 health care professionals between December 2021 and January 2022 to gauge the efficacy and scope of their quality improvement efforts to advance equity among Black patients with serious illnesses.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

2021) The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students. Epub 2021 May 21. 2021) Disparities in Technology and Broadband Internet Access Across Rurality: Implications for Health and Education. 2021) Gravity assist: propelling higher education towards a brighter future.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

days between 2021 and 2022, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Misunderstandings about hospice have led to short stays during which patients and their families are not able to reap the full scope of interdisciplinary, person-centered care — for either their loved ones or themselves, Ward indicated.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 14, 2025

Therefore, encouraging a research-positive culture appears vital in both providing patients with access to clinical research and staff with the opportunity to support it (DHSC 2021). References Dept of Health and Social Care (DHSC) (2021)Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery. NHS England (2021).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

There are still high hurdles to be cleared, and we dont expect the heady times of 2020-2021 to return but would anticipate seeing continued increased activity, especially among the small to medium size providers. Bartness, St.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

They company created a vice president of data strategy to lead its business intelligence efforts, and as of 2024 it had expanded that team to 12 people, up from three in 2021. For example, BrightStar used this system to conduct a 2021 study into their personal care business.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

CMS launched the carve-in in 2021. Payer companies reported greater challenges in 2022 than those who participated in 2021, according to the RAND report. The program’s 2021 results showed a modest, across-the-board improvement in care quality, but to date these data were not assessed for 2022.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Numerous media and government reports have surfaced since 2021 related to unethical and illegal activity occurring among hundreds of newly licensed hospices, particularly in four hotbed states of California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2024

A surge of deals in 2021 and 2022 led to record-high valuations in the space with multiples reaching in excess of 30x in some instances. That may not be at the peak of what we saw in the 2021 timeframe, but the right opportunities are still seeing significant value,” Palamara told Hospice News.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Similarly, Denmarks Sundhedsplatformen integrates hospitals, general practitioners (GPs), and pharmacies, providing real-time access to patient data, fostering collaborative care, and enabling better decision-making (Christiansen & Knudsen, 2021). AlwinP13 @alwingp.bsky.social @UniofGreenwich References: Christiansen, P. &

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oncology nurses at Nebraska Medicine in 2021 began utilizing a palliative care screening assessment tool to help differentiate patients in need of general or specialized serious illness care. Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute also began integrating the ID-PALL tool in 2021.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2024

of all Medicare decedents received one day or more of hospice care and were enrolled in hospice at the time of death during calendar year 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, according to Alix Ware, director of health policy for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). In 2021, 1.71

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

WHPCC was incorporated as a 501c3 organization in 2021. The WHPCC member companies have collaborated on quality benchmarking and improvement, revenue cycle management, compliance, policies and procedures related to hospice eligibility and other joint initiatives, members told Hospice News in 2021. Richardson Community Hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

increase in 2021. In 2021, the growth rate was 11.5%. growth in 2021. Economic patterns also reflect the growing presence of Medicare Advantage. Fee-for-service expenditures dropped 1.9% last year after a 3.8% But Medicare Advantage spending grew at a rate of 15.1% As of last year, 92% of the U.S. last year, after seeing 4.6%

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

The hospice component of VBID, also called the MA carve-in, launched in 2021 and was originally slated to complete after four years. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component.

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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.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

billion in Q4 2021. NYSE: HUM), which in 2021 purchased 100% ownership of Kindred at Home for $5.7 1, 2021, with 53 participating health plans. Its full-year 2022 revenue rose 27% year-over-year to $182.8 Consolidated fourth-quarter revenues for UnitedHealth Group totaled $82.8 billion in Q4, up 12% from $73.7

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

of the nation’s gross domestic product by the end of that time frame, up from slightly more than 18% in 2021. in 2021” Fiore said. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary also project that health care expenditures will represent 19.6% Hospital spending growth is expected to be 5.8% compared to 4.4%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Researchers examined eight other studies from 2012 to 2021 that included virtual reality interventions among a rough total of 225 palliative care patients with diverse types of advanced illnesses and age ranges (20 to 103 years old).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The relatively high rates during the past two years are among the factors contributing to an M&A slump in the hospice market, in which deal volume has slipped significantly from the record numbers of transactions in 2020 and 2021.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In 2021, Encompass sought an injunction against Anthony, claiming she had violated her employment agreement by breaching non-competition and non-solicitation clauses and misappropriating trade secrets.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

This would be a 33% increase from 2012 More than 32,200 Medicare decedents elected hospice in Massachusetts in 2021, according to the U.S. One contributing factor is that following a large spate of deals in 2021 and 2022 — fewer quality hospices are left on the market, the Mertz Taggart report indicated. Census Bureau projections.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This is down from 11 in Q3 2022 and 18 in the same period in 2021. Of the estimated 60-plus hospice transactions that occurred during 2021, at least 39, or 65%, were private-equity based, a rise from 56% in 2020, according to the Braff Group. These numbers are a far cry from the record-breaking PE volume of prior years.

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