Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Rising expenses caused widespread margin compression among hospices during 2022, particularly those associated with wages and salaries, recruitment and retention, fuel and general inflation. “We’re This may include Medicare Advantage plans, ACOs and other entities. Medicare is the most reliable payer [for hospice].

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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

JULY 3, 2023

Some of these providers have secured licenses, as well as Medicare certification and, sometimes, accreditation. They then proceed to enroll a small number of patients for whom they never bill Medicare, multiple hospice executives told Hospice News on background. By not billing, they are better able to avoid regulators’ attention.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2023

Hospice multiples broke records in 2020, 2021 and 2022, reaching as high as 29x. Potential shifts in home health reimbursement are also driving the company’s M&A decisions, Poff stated during an earnings call earlier this year. Proposed changes could make home health deals more attractive, he indicated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Hospices have taken their first steps towards value-based reimbursement during the past two years through the Medicare Advantage carve-in, which is about three-quarters into its second year. Acquisitions contributed roughly $65 million to Addus’ bottom line thus far in 2022, including one substantial hospice deal.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Wage inflation slowed sequentially, clinical headcount increased and home health and hospice turnover has declined as we continue to improve these trends will allow us to admit and serve more patients and residents.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) increased home health base rate payments by only 0.7%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2023

drop compared to Q2 in 2022. The consideration marks the latest move in a trend of large home health and hospice providers weighing the benefits and risks of similar deals in the industry. Amid the transaction consideration, both home health and hospice acquisitions remain a cornerstone of Enhabit’s strategic focus.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

While home health operators brace for the impact of the meager 2023 reimbursement rates, hospices likewise must prepare for a ripple effect. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently established a 0.7% base rate payment increase for home health care in 2023.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2022

We are seeing more hospice in the pipeline than we are in home health at this point,” said Jacobsmeyer during an earnings call. “We’re We’re seeing a little bit higher hospice potential development projects in the pipeline compared to home health. Its hospice business brought in $47.8 drop from the prior year.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2022

Sinai partnership marks Contessa’s first risk-based palliative care contract, which is reimbursed through Medicare Advantage. With this in place, the company now offers a full continuum of home-based care. The program helped to identify patients that wouldn’t normally land in the home health care setting.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

It’s down a bit by about 10% – 11% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2021 as some of the investor focus shifts to home health. Because of the [Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM)], things got garbled and murky in home health as investors waited to see what happened. There could be several.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Disruption in home health reimbursement has an influence on the hospice mergers and acquisitions market, particularly among the rising number of companies offering both services. This started to level off late last year and in early 2022. Companies like LHC Group (NASDAQ: LHCG), Amedisys Inc.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As VBID now, we’re approaching the end of 2022 and then emerging into 2023, we’re going to be in 15 plans, 119 plan benefit packages, and across 806 counties. HSPN: Can you talk a little bit about what kind of disruption could occur in the hospice industry, as a result of Medicare Advantage? Are you not?

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Agnew recently sat down with Hospice News to discuss her community education and outreach efforts and the ways UnityPoint is engaging with the health care workforce amid industry-wide staffing shortages. As a leader at UnityPoint, what are your priorities for 2022? Can you give me some details about that initiative?

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

6: The State of Training in 2022 During a 10-minute online survey, agencies were asked to share more about their challenges, successes, and future goals around their employee training programs. Between July 27th and August 19th, 2022, HCP conducted a survey targeting agencies who provide in-home care services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Mark Kulik, Senior Managing Director, The Braff Group, to learn how the HHA and hospice M&A landscape is shaping up for 2022 heading into 2023. Through Q3, how is 2022 shaping up for HHA and hospice M&A? Hospice will benefit with about a 3% rate improvement from 2022.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 3, 2018

The pace of change in home care is accelerating at a high rate, and demands for caregiver time and skill are unrelenting. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the home infusion therapy market — a rapidly growing mainstay of home and clinic care expected to reach $31.9 billion USD by 2022.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

B oth the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) are charged with preventing fraud and abuse related to federal healthcare spending. Financial reasons: Medicare spends 72.10% of their payments for patients with a length of stay greater than 180 days.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And then if you think underneath that, there’s Medicare certified home health, palliative, and hospice, that really kind of sits in the home.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

AUGUST 28, 2021

WHAT ARE THE TOP HOME HEALTH NURSE DOCUMENTATION UPDATES OF 2022? The top home health nurse documentation updates for 2022 are…. HHVBP or Home Health Value Based Purchasing . home health spending officially hit $102.2 billion in home health expenditures by 2027.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

AUGUST 28, 2021

WHAT ARE THE TOP HOME HEALTH NURSE DOCUMENTATION UPDATES OF 2022? To place quantities to all of this text, the number of agencies providing home health care in the United States grew from 8,314 in 2005 to 12,613 in 2013 with Medicare expenditures for home health care services alone nearly doubling from 9.7

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