Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is considering administrative action against 400 hospices, which could include revocation of their Medicare certification. As part of this strategy, CMS embarked on a nationwide hospice site visit project, making unannounced site visits to every Medicare-enrolled hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Helios and Basset are also collaborating on the development of a transitional care program for patients with serious or chronic illnesses. In 2021, 48,644 Medicare beneficiaries in New York state elected the hospice benefit, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been gradually implementing changes to the hospice survey process and enforcement remedies, including civil monetary penalties in some instances. The monetary penalties were among seven enforcement remedies introduced through the HOSPICE Act and subsequent CMS rules.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Expanding its palliative care business is a rising priority for Amedisys Inc., The company’s palliative care strategy rests on the back of risk-based payment models, primarily Medicare Advantage, Kusserow indicated at the J.P. Contessa is a likely engine for propelling the anticipated palliative care growth.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

SEIU analyzed Medicare claims data showing that the average hospice transfer rate among HCA hospital discharges was nearly 40% above the national average in 2021 and represented a 50% growth rate over four years. million Medicare beneficiaries elected the benefit in 2021, up from 1.43 This looks really questionable.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has put forth to strengthen hospice program integrity mirror rules implemented in years past for home health providers, including medical review processes and rules for when a provider can sell their business. CMS is no doubt hoping for similar results for the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

CHN is a coalition of nonprofit hospices designed to support the growth of community-based hospice care and leverage their collective scale and resources in value-based payment programs. Based in Davis, California, YoloCares affiliated with CHN in 2021. million in state funds to expand services as a provider in the CalAIM model.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled in July 2023. The model comes at a time when dementia-related illnesses are on the rise among hospice patients. Caregivers of patients with longer prognoses face difficult emotional challenges, including feelings of guilt, frustration and grief, she stated.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The findings in this report reflect patients who received care in Calendar Year (CY) 2021, or Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, provided by hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Most beneficiaries switch to Traditional Medicare.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) program to refocus on expanding its home- and community-based services. Clients are seeing the value in our unique position: our ability to see patients in the home and refer them to care for the urgent needs we identify.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“We have been serving the state of Wisconsin for many years, continuing our long tradition of exceptional patient care,” St. “That reputation of excellence leads more patients, families and facilities to seek our services.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Racial disparities in end-of-life care access have long proliferated, but in recent years health care providers and regulators have been paying closer attention , particularly after the pandemic exposed cracks in a fragmented health care system. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Effective Jan.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The findings in this report reflect patients who received care in Calendar Year (CY) 2022, or Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, provided by hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. This is a slight increase from 2021 but approximately equal to 2020.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Symmetries workplace culture and care delivery between the two companies were among the key draws in the deal, according to The Care Team CEO Dan Shoemaker. The Care Team and 1st Care share similar cultures and a strong commitment to quality patient care,” Shoemaker said in an announcement. “‘We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eden Health is a subsidiary of Washington-based EmpRes Healthcare, which provides management and consulting services to rehabilitation and post-acute care centers, assisted and independent living communities and home health, home care, palliative care and hospice agencies in nine Western states.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

In 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared caregiving to be an incipient public health issue. When the system overlooks caregiver contributions, it also overlooks the support they need to enable better patient care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million in revenue during the second quarter of 2022, up 16% from the same period in 2021. The company last year launched its Transition to Home program, designed to prevent readmissions by filling gaps in patient care and keep them in their homes. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory and shareholder approvals.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Their culture and approach to quality patient care are a great fit with what we have established at Fortis Health.” Fortis Health Fortis Health Rob Radics, CEO, Fortis Health Fortis offers home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services across its footprint. of the state’s overall population by 2050. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

A total of 109 transactions in the hospice and home health space involved a hospital and health system from 2014 to 2021, according to market analysis data that The Braff Group shared with Hospice News. Its acquisition of Contessa Health in June 2021 for $250 million added fuel to this fire, according to Amedisys CEO Chris Gerard.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2023

(NASDAQ: AVAH) was a company mostly focused on in-home care to pediatric populations. When the Atlanta-based provider filed to go public in April 2021, however, it revealed ambitious plans to expand into the arenas of Medicare-certified home health and hospice care. “We Overall, Aveanna reported Q2 2023 revenue of $471.9

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 30, 2023

NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. The ICAN Act is improving care and access to nursing.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) raised hospice per diems by 3.8% With much of hospice payments and revenues coming from Medicare, it’s virtually impossible for hospices to shift costs to other payers. Proactive care models mean a change in mindset of the ‘we’ve always done it this way’ mentality,” Parker said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The company is a value-based organization that partners with primary care physicians nationwide to jointly take on the total cost and quality of care for their senior patients through Medicare Advantage or the the U.S. How do you secure reimbursement for the palliative care services? Is it 24-7 care?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

These funds have been helpful with our recruitment efforts to support patient care, and should continue to help our hiring and retention efforts in the future as we deploy our remaining funds,” Allison said in the call. days during the same period in 2021. “I Hospice length of stay reached an average of 90.2

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Chicago Caregiving

JULY 6, 2024

New Aging and Caregiving Laws Fact checked by Catherine Gianaro Nurse Staffing Standards New patient care standards in Medicare- and Medicaid-rated nursing homes will phase in over the next five years to give facilities time to ramp up staffing. The standards require facilities to provide a minimum of 3.48

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

California-headquartered Kaiser Permanente Health System provides care to 12.6 billion in 2021. Last year, Kaiser Permanente consolidated its home-based care services into a single division, branded as Care at Home, with Vargas at the helm. million people across eight states and the District of Columbia. billion.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

One thing that just came out last week was the phase two reports, summarizing what happened in 2021 with VBID. In 2021, VBID was in nine MA plans. HSPN: Can you talk a little bit about what kind of disruption could occur in the hospice industry, as a result of Medicare Advantage? Are you not?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Cancer patients can have a wide range of different diagnoses that come with varying prognoses. million people in the United States were diagnosed with cancer in 2021, while roughly 608,570 individuals died from the disease that year, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. An estimated 1.9

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Roughly 78% of hospice and palliative care providers around the globe indicated “less or much less” use of volunteers since the pandemic’s onset, according to a 2022 study in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Providers’ efforts to recruit volunteers could take on renewed urgency when the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

If they have not received intentional education about palliative care and the right clinical relationships within the ICU have not been developed, some ICU providers may view palliative care as antithetical to the work they are so rigorously and intentionally performing, emphasized a 2022 study co-authored by Ouchi.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Among the considerations behind that choice was his experience in working with payers outside of traditional Medicare. Contessa’s hospital-at-home, skilled nursing-at-home and palliative care services are reimbursed almost exclusively through risk-based reimbursement models, including MA. And it’s growing; the subsidiary brought in $5.9

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

. — Nick Westfall, CEO, VITAS Healthcare Earlier access and longer hospice stays can reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%, a recent joint report found from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Now, as a product manager, I channel these experiences towards improving outcomes during the most critical moments of patients’ lives, an aspect of care often overlooked despite its importance. My commitment extends beyond individual patient care to working with organizations to make a larger impact on improving outcomes.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

– July 2021: What is the Hospice Care Index? Article Contents: July 2021: What is the Hospice Care Index? Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. July 2021: What is the Hospice Care Index?

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

Two transactions demonstrate rising interest among payers in owning the home-based care assets that serve their beneficiaries. NYSE: HUM) in 2021 acquired 100% ownership of Kindred at Home from its former private equity partners Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and TPG Capital. We are here for patient care. Humana Inc.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

APRIL 25, 2022

The Acute Care Hospital at Home model (ACHAH) provides traditional hospital inpatient acute-level services at home. Prior to the pandemic a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid pilot study yielded positive results with respect to hospital readmission rates and follow-up emergency department visits.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to remain intact. These include 1135 waivers of certain hospice rules that permitted use of telehealth to fulfill requirements typically done in person, such as recertification by physicians and patient visits. A continued federally declared emergency allows flexibilities by the U.S.

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