Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Transforming hospice policy The Medicare Hospice Benefit has remained largely unchanged since its establishment in 1983. Nearly half (49.1%) of all Medicare descendants utilized hospice services in 2022, which was a similar rate to prior years, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. this summer.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

White Medicare decedents have long represented the vast majority of individuals utilizing the hospice benefit, though other racial and ethnic groups have seen improvement. among Hispanic populations in 2022, the largest increase across all minority groups that year, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Hospice utilization rates reached 51.81% among Medicare decedents during 2022, which was above the national average of 49.1% that year, according to National Alliance for Care at Home. Census Bureau reported. Socioeconomic trends are also a strategic factor, Williams indicated. of South Carolina’s population, the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Among them are JVs with Mount Sinai Health System , Baylor Scott & White Health , Memorial Hermann Health System , and Henry Ford Health System , each of which offers palliative care in addition to other services. Through the agreement, Amedisys will make palliative care available to eligible members among the nonprofit health plan’s 3.3

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

NHPCO is currently integrating into the Alliance, a newly-formed national organization that is combining the two leading organizations supporting the care-at-home community – NHPCO and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). The total number of beneficiaries enrolled in hospice care in 2022 was 1.72

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Deal volume for non-medical home care companies outstripped that for hospice or home health during the first half of the year. As of the end of Q2, this included 23 deals compared to 17 each for Medicare-certified home health and for hospice, according to a report by M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Initiatives like these allow health systems the opportunity to not only capitalize on growing demand, but also to address a more comprehensive range of their patients’ health needs in the setting that most prefer, according to Angel Vargas, vice president of Care at Home for Kaiser Permanente. billion in 2021.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Generally, Amedisys’ palliative care services will benefit BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s members living with complex and serious conditions such as cancer or heart failure. We are proud to work with innovative companies like BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee to offer high-acuity care in the home,” Kusserow continued.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Coupled with the telehealth disparities are inequities pertaining to hospice care. About 38% of a total 50,400 Asian American Medicare decedents elected the hospice benefit in 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. This is compared to 51.6% of more than 2.1

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

That setting has had the greatest impact on my mind and heart, but my experiences in home-based primary care, hospice in the home, skilled care and long-term custodial care have enabled me to further develop my professional skillset. What is age-friendly care, and why is it important now?

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. We have 10,000 Americans becoming Medicare-eligible per day.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

While this is great news, the average care staff turnover rate has stayed at a steady 65% for 3 years in a row. The care at home industry is also the only environment where long-term care providers are expected to deliver care to all their patients between the hours of 9 a.m.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Fraudulent operators in the hospice space have misspent millions of Medicare dollars in recent years. The outlook for hospice providers will become increasingly challenging if the unscrupulous billing activity continues, with negative impacts for a swelling aging population with end-of-life care needs, Harrison stated.

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