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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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Texas-based New Day Healthcare LLC on Monday announced its acquisition of Intrepid USA’s hospice operations in Missouri and in its home state. The deal includes Intrepid’s hospice assets in Joplin and Springfield, Missouri, as well as its locations in Beaumont, Texas. Hospice utilization rates hovered at 49.1% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

VITAS Launches New Florida Location VITAS Healthcare has opened a new location in Florida, expanding the hospice provider’s footprint in its home state. The location will serve as a hub for staff providing hospice services across Pasco County, where seniors 65 and older represent 21.8% Dozier Hospice House.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care and Treasure Coast Health on Tuesday completed their affiliation, a move nearly a year in the making after the two Florida-based nonprofits signaled they would join forces. Combined, the two organizations provide hospice and palliative care to more than 7,000 patients annually across Brevard, Martin, St.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

South Carolina-based Agape Care Group has acquired several Crossroads Hospice locations in four states. Hospice News / RoboToaster Hospice News / RoboToaster Troy Yarborough, CEO, Agape Care. Agape Care Group’s 2,000 employees serve roughly 5,000 patients in nine states.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Croix Hospice has expanded its Missouri footprint with a de novo in the Wildwood community. Favorable demographics are among the factors that make Missouri an attractive market for hospices. Croix Hospice often looks for markets in which hospice utilization is comparatively low, including historically underserved rural communities, St.

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Hospice News

JUNE 11, 2024

Federal regulators should increase scrutiny of private equity activity in the hospice space, according to the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). We wish to emphasize that it is not NPHI’s position to oppose all PE associated activity in the hospice market,” the organization indicated in its comments.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Prolific health disparities have driven hospices to implement various strategies to improve diversity, equity and inclusion among underserved patient populations. Garrett is also executive director of the Virginia-based hospice’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee. Hospice utilization rates rose by 4.1%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

California-based Hoffmann Hospice has established a grief camp designed for children and teens who are mourning a first responder. The organization expects 10 to 12 participants in 2024, compared to about 30 for their more general grief programs for children, according to Ryan D’Amato, family support manager for Hoffmann Hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has recommended to Congress a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. In its annual report to Congress, MedPAC urged policymakers to eliminate hospice base-rate increases for 2025. The 2021 aggregated Medicare hospice margin was 13.3%, according to MedPAC.

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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 1, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) designed the Hospice Care Index (HCI) to paint a picture of care processes that occur between a patient’s admission and discharge, but as currently designed it may not be an effective measure of quality. They would have to perform better than only the lowest 10% of providers.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should consider is retiring the six-month terminal prognosis requirement and allowing for some concurrent care, Wallace and Wladkowski indicated.

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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 carve-in, formally known as the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID), will expire on Dec. Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Croix Hospice has launched a new specialty program focused on wound care. The Minnesota-based provider has hired a number of board-certified wound and ostomy clinicians to operate the new program, its eighth specialty care service. Croix Hospice is a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G. ” The post St.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Recent years have seen an uptick in consolidation activity among nonprofits in the hospice space. Reimbursement rules and oversight rules and compliance rules, this is bringing to the forefront just the challenge of successfully operating in this marketplace on a sustained basis,” Kulik told Hospice News. “It’s

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Implementation of the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been challenging for both payers and providers, though a recent analysis indicates that it may get easier over time. to conduct the analysis of the program, formally called the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID).

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

Hospices have been advocating for lawmakers and regulators to take action on curbing fraud, supporting veterans and bolstering the health care workforce. Battling fraud Reports of unethical or illegal practices have surged, particularly among hundreds of newly certified hospices in California, Texas, Nevada and Arizona.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Hospice providers are leveraging technology to build greater efficiency into their workflows and, in turn, aid with recruitment and retention. This kind of approach would likely resonate with hospice workers, research has demonstrated. Hospice nurses pointed to this issue as their No. You don’t enjoy going to work.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Colorado-based Emmaus Catholic Hospice has seen both staffing and census volumes swell since launching nearly a year ago. The organization began as a home health agency and added a hospice segment in 2022, according to Vicki Owens, CEO of Emmaus Catholic Hospice, DBA under the nonprofit Dominican Home Health Agency.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Shradha Aiyer, vice president of products at Axxess, 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 field?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Julia Hospice & Palliative Refuels De Novo Plans Pennsylvania-based Julia Hospice & Palliative (JHPC) has reignited plans to launch a de novo after experiencing pandemic-related setbacks. Dubbed Julia House, the facility will provide inpatient hospice and serve as an outpatient palliative care clinic.

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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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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

JULY 9, 2024

North Carolina-based Hospice of Davidson County (HODC) will soon unveil a summer grief camp for bereaved children and teens. Though the hospice includes children activities and therapies within its scope of bereavement services, it did not yet have a formalized youth program. “We HODC served 895 hospice patients in 2022, an 8.7%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Though the number of hospice M&A deals plummeted in 2023 compared to prior years, deals are still being made, and the industry may see a rebound in 2024. Transaction volume declined in the hospice and home-based care space in 2023, following the two record-breaking prior years. This followed its $5.4 NYSE: HUM) for $2.8

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

With heightened regulatory scrutiny and dropping utilization, hospices are walking a tightrope when it comes to providing the General Inpatient (GIP) level of care. Though hospices are required to offer all four levels of care, more than half did not provide a single day of GIP during 2022, according to the U.S.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

After 75 years of service, Georgia-based hospice provider Visiting Nurse Health System (VNHS) has its sights set on the future. Founded in 1948, the organization was the first home-based care provider to operate in Georgia, and in 1975 launched the state’s first hospice program. Seniors represented 14.7%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Sarah Bush Lincoln Opens New Hospice Illinois-based Sarah Bush Lincoln Hospice recently opened a new inpatient facility. Located in Mattoon, Illinois, the Willow Breeze Hospice House features eight patient rooms with private bathrooms. The hospice provider is part of the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System, which opened in 1977.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

Hospices combat both operational and financial challenges as they seek to grow and evolve their veteran programs around the diverse and complex needs of patients and their families. I think that’s a challenge that a lot of hospices run into.” Graveran is also a veteran.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

YoloCares has announced its disaffiliation from the California Hospice Network (CHN) after three years of collaborative partnership. 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.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

Hospice providers are growing increasingly concerned about how state laws related to transgender rights may impede access to their services among LGBTQ+ communities. A rash of states have recently passed legislation to ban the delivery of gender-affirming health care, including Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, among others.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking. I’ll say the obvious, racism.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Hosparus Health has acquired Baptist Health Deaconess Hospice in Madisonville, Kentucky, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1978, Hosparus Health’s 600 employees and 500 volunteers provide care for more than 10,000 patients annually, including hospice, medical care, palliative medicine, mental health and bereavement services. “Our

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