Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

In 2021, more than 22,000 Medicare decedents elected hospice care in Kentucky. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Because most of the individuals accessing PACE are going to be Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries,” Cook told Hospice News in January. “A It currently serves six Kentucky counties.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Medicare Advantage organization SCAN Group has invested an undisclosed dollar amount in tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed. The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

Towards the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 is when we really started to see what we would deem a return to normal. But in late 2022 and early 2023, providers are seeing signs of recovery. Towards the end of 2022, the organization saw thrift shop sales rise 25% compared to the same period in 2021, Graham indicated.

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Hospice News

JUNE 11, 2024

North Dakota-based Hospice of the Red River Valley is focused on expanding its home- and community-based services among dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid populations in need of greater support. The hospice in 2022 opened an 18-bed inpatient facility in North Dakota.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Established in 1985, the faith-based nonprofit also offers palliative care, grief support and virtual telehealth hospice services to caregivers and patients. She’ll be charged with expanding Angela Hospice’s scope of hospice, grief care and educational services. billion in the third quarter of 2024, an 11.4%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

YoloCares in 2022 rebranded to better reflect its suite of services. The hospice provider also operates centers for caregiving and grief support and offers clinical education through its teaching arm YoloCares University. The five-year initiative is aimed at improving quality and well-being among the state’s Medicare beneficiaries.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

December 20, 2022 . Continued slowdown of hospice caps: The legislation extends the cap calculation methodology implemented by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014. For Immediate Release. Patients will also be able to continue to participate in telehealth visits from home. .

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. Overcoming boundaries Providers have long fought to improve understanding of their services since the Medicare Hospice Benefit was established in 1983.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

These were the driving factors that fueled HPCMV to seek out Medicare certification after nearly four decades of thriving on philanthropic support, according to Stauffer Wozniak. Can you elaborate on what led to the Medicare certification process nearly 40 years after the organization’s establishment and some of the nuances involved?

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

The analysis also took into account the ratio of Medicare-certified health care providers to eligible patients, as well as probate processes. The analysis cited data for each metric ranging from 2018 to early 2022, depending on the individual indicator. Whereas the probate data was based on information from early 2022.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

Roughly 82 million people in the United States will be 65 or older by 2050, a 47% rise from 58 million in 2022, according to projections from the U.S. of 955, 777 Medicare decedents who died between 2017 and 2018 utilized these services, a JAMA Health Forum study found. Census Bureau. Only 10.9%

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

In addition to clinical care, the new location will provide grief and bereavement support groups, volunteer training, educational workshops and events as part of Blue Ridge Hospice’s community Grief and Loss Support Services program. Close to 40,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Virginia elected hospice in 2021, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A number of entrepreneurs have emerged with tech solutions that offer grief and logistical support to bereaved families. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

UnitedHealth Group is the largest operator of Medicare Advantage plans in the country. AREX has been an Enhabit investor since it spun off from Encompass Health Corporation’s (NYSE: EHC) home health and hospice segments in July 2022. This followed Optum’s $5.4 billion purchase of LHC Group in February.

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