Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This transaction significantly expands our personal care services footprint in the nation’s fourth largest metropolitan statistical area, G. Having expanded PCS services in Houston allows us to engage a full home care continuum, furthering our longitudinal care strategy. Seniors 65 and older represent 13.8%

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Patient Recovery Home Healthcare has been in operation for 15 years and will not rebrand post-acquisition. New Day is pleased to welcome Patient Recovery Home Healthcare to our expanding home care platform, said Matthew Griffith, chief development and strategy officer for New Day, in a statement. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The hospice space has since seen a cooling period that began in 2022, with investment ebbing further in2023 and into this year. An estimated six hospice deals took place in Q3, with six home health and 11 home care also completed, Mertz Taggart reported. Private equity transactions represented half of these deals.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2022, the hospice community laid the groundwork for a transformational 2023. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. The following are the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022. #1

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Utilization continuous home care has dropped precipitously during the past decade, with labor pressures, regulatory scrutiny and billing challenges as contributing factors. Continuous home care (CHC) represented 0.9% Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is down from 1.8%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Medicare Advantage plans are connecting the dots between quality scores and care delivery costs. When choosing a hospice to work with, payers in the Medicare Advantage (MA) realm zero in on providers’ quality scores and its patient population growth potential, according to Frontpoint Healthcare CEO Brent Korte.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

While hospice and home health M&A continue to burgeon, non-medical home care is starting to slip out from under their shadows. Deal volume for non-medical home care companies outstripped that for hospice or home health during the first half of the year. The case for non-medical home care investment.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Los Angeles-based Hospice Home Care recently rolled out a scholarship program for hospice aides in a move towards building career pathways and improving retention. Growing demand amid heightened levels of turnover is fueling a need to retain and attract hospice home aides. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Though hospice deal volume dipped in 2022 compared to previous years, five particular transactions could paint a larger picture of where investors see value in the space. The agreement marked not only one of the largest deals in hospice, but also signaled increasing interest among payers to operate health care provider companies.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. The home health and hospice provider is part of the home care service line of Uintah Basin Healthcare. Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Instant Care provided an extraordinary opportunity to move into non-medical home care in one of the most desirable markets in the United States.”. Veterans programs and managed care organizations also have become more involved in the space. Instant Care is Choice’s second acquisition this year. As of 2019, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec. Often called the “hospice carve-in,” the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, in addition to some coverage of palliative care and transitional care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

The nation’s total health care spend is expected to swell by 5.4% annually between 2022 and 2031, reaching $7.1 Meanwhile, Medicare hospice spending is expected to more than double by 2032. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary also project that health care expenditures will represent 19.6%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

The post-Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in landscape could include wider value-based reimbursement avenues in the hospice space, leading providers to pivot into MA payer relationships. a hospice and home care consulting company. You need to be at the table with Medicare Advantage plan negotiations and make yourself known. “You

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Inflation and rising health care utilization are driving U.S. health care spending to growth faster than the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). The nation’s health care spend is projected to reach nearly $5.1 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said during a virtual media briefing.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a broader range of services. The nonprofit provides home care, hospice, advance care and supportive and palliative care across northern Florida and southern Georgia.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Only 10 new Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will offer home-based palliative care as a primarily health-related benefit for 2023, but payers may be offering those services through other programs. ” Through Medicare Advantage, the U.S. This number grew to 115 in 2022. The carve-in launched Jan.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since at least 2022, Contessa has been pursuing palliative care reimbursement through Medicare Advantage. Earlier this year, the Amedisys subsidiary entered into its first full-risk Medicare Advantage contract to include palliative care with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee. million in Q3 2022.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. The agency is also releasing applications for participation for eligible Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) for calendar year 2024. It makes sense.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The national average hourly rate for Hospice registered nurses rose 4.58% in 2023, down from a 5.95% increase in 2022, according to a new report by the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

A key attractor is the potential cost savings associated with risk-based payment systems like Medicare Advantage, in which UnitedHealth Care is of the largest players. Its full-year 2022 revenue rose 27% year-over-year to $182.8 As Witty noted, other payers also recognize opportunities in the home setting.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Referral rejection rates among hospices reached a record high of 41% in 2022, according to data from CarePort, a WellSky company. Transaction volume declined in the hospice and home-based care space in 2023, following the two record-breaking prior years.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking answers from the hospice community — including some around utilization patterns and non-hospice spending. ” One key set of data pertains to the utilization of continuous home care (CHC), general inpatient care (GIP) and inpatient respite care (IRC).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Hospice executives in December 2022 shared their predictions for what would happen in the space during 2023. More access to care is critical,” Alex Mauricio, CEO of Bristol Hospice, told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 conference. “I This entire Medicare Advantage carve-in, it makes sense.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Often called the MA hospice carve-in , the voluntary demonstration is designed to assess payer and provider performance related to hospice within Medicare Advantage (MA). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has indicated that hospices should ensure that their billing staff is familiar with the 2023 modifications.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

These annual adjustments have their roots in the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act), which changed the way the hospice aggregate payment cap is calculated. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been working to implement since 2022. for next year.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), asking for the agency to brief them on fraud and abuse within the hospice benefit. Hospice can be an important part of a patient’s care, but only if it is operating as intended,” the legislators wrote in the letter. “We Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

” Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address this issue, providing 34 recommendations. This was the conclusion of a 2022 report from the California Department of Justice (CDOJ).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) represent a growing opportunity for palliative care companies, and providers have a number of ways to get in on the ground floor. Along with Medicare Advantage, ACOs are one of the few avenues towards more robust reimbursement than fee-for-service models.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

Though the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in is going away at the end of this year, those operators still have a role to play in value-based care. The program was designed to test hospice coverage through Medicare Advantage (MA). Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule designed to strengthen oversight of those institutions. Some in the hospice space have maintained that accreditors should be able to provide such education, but they should not be paid services, including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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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. Geographically, the program will be available in 806 counties in 24 states, up from 461 in 2022.

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Hospice News

JULY 27, 2023

The company during Q2 poured an additional $6 million to recruit and retain clinical bedside staff, which contributed to an average daily census increase of 1,182 patients compared to the same period in 2022, he stated. million compared to the first half of 2022. rise from the same period in 2022. year-over-year rise.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2023

Language in the 2024 proposed rule for the Medicare hospice program gives some indication of where the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is heading when it comes to quality measurement requirements. If the rule is finalized as written, this will jump to 4%in Fiscal Year 2024 — retroactively to 2022 data.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) forthcoming Special Focus Program (SFP) for hospices. CMS initially pitched the idea in 2022 but instead convened a Technical Expert Panel (TEP) to further guide development. A coalition of industry groups has spoken out about the design of the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Despite slowed intensity thus far in 2022 compared to previous years, the hospice sector has “remained active” and “still outpaces” other markets in health care, according to a recent report from Bass Berry & Sims. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the U.S. This includes the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

NYSE: EHAB) has acquired Southwest Florida Home Care, Inc.’s s home health agency in Fort Myers for an undisclosed sum. The transaction expands Enhabit’s home health footprint in Florida to 22 locations. The company in 2022 has struggled with labor headwinds and associated constraints on clinical capacity.

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