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. But there’s nothing routine about these reviews in today’s current hospice regulatory environment. said Kulik. “Is

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since at least 2022, Contessa has been pursuing palliative care reimbursement through Medicare Advantage. In 2022, 147 plans offered home-based palliative care across 17 states, a 7% increase in the number of plans compared to the prior year. million in Q3 2022. million, compared with $3.5

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

annually between 2022 and 2031, reaching $7.1 ” In 2022, CMS paid $23.9 A deceleration in spending growth compared to that in 2021, is attributable in part to the Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries using emergent hospital care at lower rates during 2022,” CMS Economist Jacqueline Fiore said in a conference call.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2022, the company serviced more than 269,500 Medicare Advantage members and 89,000 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. Founded in 2016, agilon health, inc. offers primary care physician services nationwide.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Scott Ginn held the role since November 2022 prior to Guidroz’s ascension. “In He joined the hospice provider in 2015 as director of market development before moving up the ranks to general manager in 2018 and senior general manager in 2022. In connection with Ms. Guidroz’s appointment, Scott G.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The national average hourly rate for hospice aides and CNAs rose 9.09% in 2022, compared to a 4.52% increase in 2021, according to the 2022-2023 Hospice Salary & Benefits Report , published by Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). .

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

He had served as medical director for several hospice organizations. We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.” 30, 2022, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

The hiring of Lopez as president comes about six months after The Denver Hospice also named a new medical director in Dr. Robert Howe. Melinda Egging previously served as The Denver Hospice’s president, leaving the role in November 2022. Egging now serves as CEO of Sangre de Cristo Community Care, according to her LinkedIn page.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Efficiency is of high value not only for hospice providers, but also for their employees, according to 2022 research by the Transcend Strategy Group. One of the things that hospices can do is build more efficiency into workflows, and this is often where technology comes into play. NYSE: CHE). “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Contessa is currently in talks with a number of other Medicare Advantage organizations to pursue similar, but not identical, contracts, Dr. Gavin Baumgardner, vice president and national medical director of Palliative Care at Home at Contessa, said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) 2023 Annual Leadership Conference.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

The new location will allow for improved support for serious and terminally ill patients that lack caregiver support or need higher levels of care, said Dr. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. The organization planned to begin construction in 2022 and open by the end of 2023.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

million that the organization reported in 2022. Hospice utilization rates in the state reached 40.96% in 2022, which fell below the national average of 49.1% The new senior living center will be staffed with a team of nurses, a medical director and an interdisciplinary care team. Its overall revenue reached more than $6.22

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This followed other 2022 acquisitions of Georgia-based Lanier Hospice in January and Hospice of the Carolina Foothills in May. She previously served as its associate medical director following her fellowship, then moved on to become its director of pediatrics before ascending to her current leadership position. “It

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recruiting and retaining palliative care professionals can be a difficult feat for organizations, in part because not enough medical and nursing students are exposed to palliative care during their education. In 2022 Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc. Luke’s Hospice & Palliative Medicine’s program.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

“We are seeing more and more evidence to support the fact that palliative care delivered via telehealth is high quality and acceptable to patients and caregivers,” said Dr. Julia Frydman, medical director for palliative care at Thyme Care. Thyme Care recently launched a virtual palliative care program.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Dr. Leena Dutta, medical director of hospice and in-home palliative care for the center, joined the program in May, 2022 and oversaw the initiative. Earlier this year, the hospital revamped and reworked the program and subsequently earned Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) accreditation.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Due to polypharmacy, hospice patients are often at great risk for adverse side effects, such as falls, confusion and medication interactions, among others, according to a 2022 dissertation by Shannon Dickson at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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. Owens: The inception of pivoting from home health to hospice was in 2022. Emmaus Catholic Hospice established services within the last year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, the company in 2022 formed a joint venture with Mount Sinai Health System. Similar reasons are driving more hospitals and health systems to collaborate with palliative providers, Baumgardner stated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Hospice News recently sat down with pediatrician Dr. Rebecca MacDonell-Yilmaz, medical director of HopeHealth’s pediatric supportive services. Our team officially began towards the end of 2021 heading into 2022. We continue to grow and grow and partner with local organizations.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Effective processes to measure and track quality are crucial for hospices when it comes to proving their value proposition to payers, according to Dr. Alena Baquet-Simpson, chief executive medical director of insurance giant Aetna, a CVS Health company (NYSE: CVS). “It

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

We started in March 2022 and are very much still in the startup phase. We also have a home health aide, a chaplain, a social worker, a patient intake coordinator and a medical director. When did you begin offering hospice services, and what is your scope of care thus far? We’re fairly new and still in the early stages.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

in Pallimed on September 12, 2022 (1). Most notably, this includes the publication of the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2), which updated the guidance previously provided by the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (3).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

billion in 2022, a report from ResearchandMarkets estimated. Not only problems related to diagnosis and treatment, but also the myriad challenges that arise in the social realm,” Hospice of the Valley Executive Medical Director Ned Stolzberg told local news. billion in 2030 from $34.5 billion by 2029, a rise from $76.44

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We also explore additional COIs from the 2016 Guideline’s creation group before the final release of the updated CDC 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for pain, hereafter the 2022 Draft Guideline (6,7). The HHS Draft Report on Pain Management Best Practices quietly faded into obscurity. opioid policy.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Lightways Hospice and Serious Illness Care Lightways, an Illinois-based nonprofit, made monumental strides in pediatric palliative care in 2022. Lightways plans to continue developing its services by hiring a full-time pediatric medical director to foster a culture that truly understands palliative care for children. “We’re

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Minneapolis-based Livio Health was later acquired in 2022 by Lifespark, a senior health care company in the state. The Nashville-headquartered organization recently secured a $60 million funding round to expand its health services for cancer patients, including palliative care and programs to address social determinants.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Additionally, the rule included language to clarify that designated physician members of the hospice interdisciplinary team may certify patients for hospice if the medical director is unavailable. The second piece looked at elements of the 2025 proposed rule that would represent new requirements, if finalized.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. We can actually see that.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

She has served as COO at Virginia-based Good Samaritan Hospice since 2022 after joining the organization as chief strategy officer two years prior to that. board of directors chair, said in a press release. Additionally, he will serve as medical director of The Denver Hospice.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Dr. Merkel engaged with his partner Dr. Robert Kasulke to spear head the medical care. Dr. Kasulke became the first High Peaks Hospice Medical Director, and today he continues to serve as Medical Director for the Hospice in Jefferson County. Ann and David gathered a team. Lawrence Counties.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. From a medical director standpoint, how do you think about that? No one calls me by my name.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It also raises many concerns about his role in the creation of any “draft, updated and/or expanded Guideline (hereafter called the “2022 Guideline”) that might arise from such conflicts (7). Does Chou’s recent COI disclosure compromise the integrity of the upcoming 2022 Guideline, even before its publication?

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

The panel took place virtually on March 23, 2022. We have one thing that is different, I think, from most hospices, which is we have a full-time medical director. The article is based on an interview that took place during a virtual panel discussion with Alfonso Montiel of SilverStone Hospice at the Hospice News Staffing Summit.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity.

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