Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2025

Nonprofit organizations represent the majority of hospice care providers in New York. The two known for-profit hospices operating in New York have both been under the supervision of the states Department of Health, which to date has not found any issues with fraud or quality of care at either company.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Employing an updated case management model has aided Enhabit in growing its patient census and stabilizing its clinical hospice workforce. Enhabit in 2022 began leveraging a new case management staffing model to reduce turnover, seeing the strategy bearing fruit in stronger retention, clinical capacity and census growth.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Dallas-based home health and hospice provider Intrepid USA Healthcare Services’ geographic footprint spans 66 locations in 14 states. Intrepid has two locations in Beaumont, Texas, where the company provides home-based hospice, palliative and supportive care services. Hospice utilization rates hovered at 49.1%

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Croix Hospice has acquired Lombard, Ill.-based based Lexington Hospice Care. In addition to a spate of acquisitions, the Minnesota-based hospice provider has launched three de novos thus far in 2022. Geographically, Lexington Hospice Care fits nicely into St. Financial terms were undisclosed.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Bell previously served as the nonprofit hospice providers vice president and chief medical officer since 2016. The nonprofit organization provides hospice, palliative care and advanced care planning services across 44 counties in Arkansas. The California-based hospice provider in October 2024 received nearly $1.14

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2025

Catholic Hospice and Catholic Palliative Care Services is part of the Florida-based Catholic Health Services of the Archdiocese of Miami. In addition to palliative and hospice care, the health system provides hospital-based and outpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, assisted living and home health care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Hospice providers and stakeholders are carefully examining the proposed changes included in the recently introduced Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act as the bill begins its journey through the legislative process. this summer. “It

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

VITAS Healthcare Expands Hospital-Based Inpatient Hospice Center Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare recently expanded its inpatient hospice care unit at the Florida-based Broward Health Medical Center. Miami-based VITAS has provided community- and facility-based hospice care in the Broward County area since 1980.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

hospice industry as a whole is projected to bring in roughly $34 billion in revenue during 2024, Jackson indicated. This is a rise from Medicare hospice expenditures that reached $23.7 billion in 2022, Medicare (MedPAC) reported. National hospice utilization rates reached 49.1% Details in the data trends The U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

to conduct the analysis of the program, formally called the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID). The RAND analysis released this week covers the calendar year 2022. In 2022, 13 insurance companies offered hospice VBID benefits through a total of 109 health plans.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2025

Her passion and expertise will allow us to scale our impact and ensure the lasting success of Full-Life Care for the patients, families and communities we serve. Johnson previously served as president of the Trustbridge Hospice Foundation, since 2022. Empath serves 1 in 5 hospice patients across Florida, the company reported.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

More than 27,550 Medicare decedents elected the hospice benefit in 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. ” The post Renovus Capital Partners Acquires Hospice Provider Superior Health Holdings appeared first on Hospice News. This is a rate of 48.2%.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

. “Our new Wildwood branch will bolster our support for the surrounding rural communities in eastern Missouri by providing them with the increased accessibility and convenience of our expert care team.” Croix Hospice cares for as many as 4,400 patients daily across its ten-state footprint, which is concentrated in the Midwest.

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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

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 Spending by Medicare, hospice’s principal payer, is expected to reach close to $1.1 of the anticipated U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“For hospice services specifically, an aging population, along with better informed family members about the positive aspects of hospice care, along with an increased dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, are all drivers of these crucial services,” he said. Among Medicare beneficiaries, 45,760 elected the hospice benefit in 2022.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Croix Hospice in March 2022. This is in addition to six that launched in 2022. Croix’s new wound care team will provide specialty care planning, treatment and clinical documentation. Croix Hospice apart by providing access to clinicians who specialize in wound care in addition to the traditional hospice care team.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Continued growth in the number of for-profit providers (an increase of at least 10% in 2022) and reports of strong investor interest in the sector suggest that capital is available to these providers,” MedPAC indicated in its report. More than 49% of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice care during 2022, up from 47.3%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Millicent Burke-Sinclair, president and CEO of the hospice and palliative care provider Four Seasons, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2023

“Our new Manhattan branch will headquarter more local staff within the communities they are already serving, allowing us to increase access and convenience to hospice care where there is great need.” Between October 2021 and September 2022 nearly 50% of eligible patients who reside in the service area for St.

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Hospice News

JUNE 11, 2024

“However, we believe further scrutiny of the performance of PE associated activity is warranted to ensure that all Medicare beneficiaries receive the quality of hospice care to which they are entitled. The research cited above suggests that may not always be the case.”

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Together for Short Lives

DECEMBER 13, 2023

New research we are releasing today reveals that NHS funding for local children’s hospices in England varies by as much as £483 per child in 2022/23.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hollie Trogdon, senior vice president of PruittHealth Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. What drew you to this industry?

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

What’s happening in these states has caused mounting concern around access to quality hospice care for LGBTQ+ individuals, according to Kimberly Acquaviva, social worker and professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion in improper payments during 2023, though a smaller proportion of those dollars went to hospices than in years prior. Hospices received nearly 5.4% of improper payments from Medicare in 2023, down from 12% in 2022, according to a new report from the U.S. Medicare fee-for-service programs made $31.23

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

.” One key set of data pertains to the utilization of continuous home care (CHC), general inpatient care (GIP) and inpatient respite care (IRC). Despite rebasing payment rates for the higher levels of care, there still remains a high percentage of hospices that provide little to no CHC, IRC, or GIP.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

Prior to this appointment, Tarsa has served as chief clinical officer at VNH since joining them in 2022 and will continue in this role concurrently. BAYADA Names Director of Veterans Affairs BAYADA has named Ally ONeal as its director of Veterans Affairs for its hospice segment, a newly created position.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For the final two years of the program, payers will have more leeway when it comes to payment rates and patient access to hospice providers outside of their health plan’s network, according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). “It’s

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

(Hospice News photo) The former Crossroads locations in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma locations will operate under the ACG Hospice brand, while the Georgia location will be branded as Georgia Hospice Care. Agape Care Group’s 2,000 employees serve roughly 5,000 patients in nine states.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Hospice News photo by TBAR Productions Hospice News photo by TBAR Productions Cheryl Hamilton Fried, Perry Farmer and Dean Forman at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference. There [are] a lot of challenges when reaching out to people and were talking about service diversification and starting a palliative care line.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Massachusetts-based Advanced Home Care has acquired Dignity Hospice Care for an undisclosed amount. The transaction follows Advanced Home Care’s acquisition of Dignity Home Care late last year. The buyer company’s CEO Art Kalenjian will now take the helm at Dignity Hospice.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Hospice utilization rates among Medicare descendents in Florida reached 55.97% in 2022, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Facts and Figures report. Francis Reflections operates two general inpatient hospice care units in Melbourne and Titusville, Florida.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Lauren O’Dwyer, CFO at Anvoi Hospice and Anvoi Management, LLC, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since its implementation in July 2022, VITAS has bolstered its ranks with 275 newly hired licensed clinicians, including 103 during Q4, the company reported. For some of those other metrics, results were mixed for both Q4 and full-year 2022. from Q3 2022. The majority of these hires were nurses, Westfall indicated. “We

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“Single-fraction radiotherapy plus best supportive care improved pain compared with best supportive care alone in patients with liver cancer and could be considered a standard palliative treatment,” researchers stated in the study. Patients’ pain levels were assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) index.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

“These restrictions are closely tied to the two most common reasons for a live discharge from hospice: decertification — when a patient is removed from hospice care due to a stabilized condition; or revocation — when a patient chooses to leave hospice care to seek curative care,” the authors wrote.

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