Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

Home health value-based purchasing Home health providers have two primary inroads to value-based care — HHVBP and Medicare Advantage. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) kicked off the HHVBP demonstration on Jan. But starting in 2022, CMS began rolling it out nationwide.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) program to refocus on expanding its home- and community-based services. Clients are seeing the value in our unique position: our ability to see patients in the home and refer them to care for the urgent needs we identify.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has put forth to strengthen hospice program integrity mirror rules implemented in years past for home health providers, including medical review processes and rules for when a provider can sell their business. CMS is no doubt hoping for similar results for the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Four national hospice and senior care industry groups have called on Congress and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make regulatory and legislative changes to instill stronger program integrity safeguards.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Frontpoint, a portfolio company of Cimarron Healthcare Capital and Tacoma Holdings, is an emerging provider of home health, hospice, palliative and personal care with a focus on Medicare Advantage enrollees in Texas markets. Post-transaction, Frontpoint’s service area will reach more than 176 Texas counties.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Hayden Jordan, director of palliative care for senior care provider PruittHealth Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. . I think if you prioritize patient care, everything else kind of falls into place. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] but commercial plans.

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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

JUNE 27, 2023

As more hospices engage with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, they may be able to learn from the experiences of some home health providers. Now, many operators are contracting with managed care plans for other service lines, such as palliative care, or they may be participating in the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2024 updates to the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model: care coordination, managing health equity-related risks and social determinants of health. Three principles are guiding the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2023

during the same period in 2022. Although 2022 was a difficult year for our home health and hospice segment, we firmly believe in this business and its long-term value proposition,” Ashar said in an earnings call. “We Atlanta-based Aveanna serves more than 40,000 patients annually across roughly 300 locations in 33 states.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“We have been serving the state of Wisconsin for many years, continuing our long tradition of exceptional patient care,” St. “That reputation of excellence leads more patients, families and facilities to seek our services.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. In some instances, multiple hospices have been operating out of the same address without a corresponding increase in the population of eligible patients. This prompted the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The company received roughly $24 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, utilizing the funding to raise wages while providing sign-on and retention bonuses in 2022. million in revenue for all of 2022. Its personal care services reached $183.4 Addus’ hospice segment brought in $50.6 million in revenue during Q4.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

A pharmacist by trade, Ashworth most recently served as president and CEO of Tivity Health (NASDAQ: TVTY), a wellness solutions company that contracts with Medicare Advantage plans, where he was credited with achieving a 300% shareholder return. Previously, he was president of Walgreens Co.,

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million in revenue during the second quarter of 2022, up 16% from the same period in 2021. The company last year launched its Transition to Home program, designed to prevent readmissions by filling gaps in patient care and keep them in their homes. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory and shareholder approvals.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

Diephuis previously served as an advisor for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). The investment from Echo and CVS is a milestone moment for Thyme Care driven by our commitment to working with partners dedicated to rethinking how we deliver and pay for cancer care,” Diephuis said in a statement.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Understanding payer priorities in defining the scope of quality is vital for hospices to thrive not only in traditional Medicare, but also in today’s value-based reimbursement climate. The nitty gritty details of data tracking and management matter when it comes to ensuring both a healthy bottom line and quality patient care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

among Medicare decedents in 2018, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. Croix has also launched five de novos so far in 2022, in Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Kansas. “We This represents 46% growth in the senior population since 2015. Hospice utilization in Indiana reached 48.9%

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Among the considerations behind that choice was his experience in working with payers outside of traditional Medicare. Historically, home-based care and hospice providers have operated primarily within Medicare fee-for-service models. of the total dollars deployed by venture capital firms in 2022, according to Pitchbook.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Transforming hospice policy The Medicare Hospice Benefit has remained largely unchanged since its establishment in 1983. The benefit was designed to help providers offering palliative services and other support to terminally ill patients and their families. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) introduced the Hospice CARE Act last month.

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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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This all affects patient care, and the support to administrators, nurses and everyone that’s part of caring for patients.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

SEIU analyzed Medicare claims data showing that the average hospice transfer rate among HCA hospital discharges was nearly 40% above the national average in 2021 and represented a 50% growth rate over four years. million Medicare beneficiaries elected the benefit in 2021, up from 1.43 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Roughly 78% of hospice and palliative care providers around the globe indicated “less or much less” use of volunteers since the pandemic’s onset, according to a 2022 study in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Providers’ efforts to recruit volunteers could take on renewed urgency when the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Now we’re one unified operation for all care at home — anything in the home is under this portfolio of services”. This integration by Kaiser reflects the ways health systems will need to adapt as they care for the rapidly growing, often chronically ill, Medicare population. billion.

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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

MARCH 1, 2024

If they have not received intentional education about palliative care and the right clinical relationships within the ICU have not been developed, some ICU providers may view palliative care as antithetical to the work they are so rigorously and intentionally performing, emphasized a 2022 study co-authored by Ouchi.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

billion in 2022 and went on to make a bid to purchase Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) for $3.3 In total hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 billion for patients in their final year of life, the findings showed. Hospices are faced with reducing indirect overhead costs to ensure that direct patient care missions remain strong.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

Compared to other health care settings, hospices lack diversity in revenue streams such as private insurers and Medicaid funding. Through the hospice benefit, Medicare covers nearly 90% of a provider’s patient care revenue. Hospice and home care sector multiples have reached record highs in recent years.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

According to “The 2022 Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report: 5th Edition,” claims again nurse practitioners (NPs) are rising. NSO’s & CNA’s report entitled, The 2022 Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report: 5th Edition , revealed that aging services claims increased from 17.2

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

“Ultimately, the decision to disaffiliate from CHN was made with the prioritization of patient care,” YoloCares indicated in a statement. “We We see the advancement of care in California, one that prioritizes the social and emotional well-being of people with serious illness, and we are eager to be at the forefront.”

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hospice Care Index: A Perfect 10. In August 2022, Medicare included a new overall quality measure for Hospice Care Compare: the Hospice Care Index. For each quality measure where the hospice has good performance, one point is added to the Hospice Care Index. How Are Hospice Care Index Scores Calculated?

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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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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

When I think about patient care and clinicians in the field, quality training, processes and technology are my top priorities. This is key to achieving the best level of care and patient outcomes while increasing staff retention and satisfaction. It also provided a payment update of 4.1% productivity adjustment, and a 3.5%

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to remain intact. These include 1135 waivers of certain hospice rules that permitted use of telehealth to fulfill requirements typically done in person, such as recertification by physicians and patient visits. A continued federally declared emergency allows flexibilities by the U.S.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

December 20, 2022 . Patients will also be able to continue to participate in telehealth visits from home. . Continued slowdown of hospice caps: The legislation extends the cap calculation methodology implemented by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014. For Immediate Release.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

This environment of care is ripe for error and unsafe patient care outcomes. When direct care nurses and nurse leaders fully understand how the environment impacts patient safety, they can develop a better awareness of the behavioral choices nurses make when providing care and build ways to decrease the likelihood of error.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, for instance, has a team of palliative care providers “embedded” into its oncology clinic and ALS Center, according to David Wu, the program’s director. Also in 2020 came the launch of partnership between Livio Health and cancer care provider Minnesota Oncology.

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