NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Alexandria, VA) Congress has released the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, an omnibus funding package that will fund the government through Fiscal Year 2023. For Immediate Release. December 20, 2022 . Patients will also be able to continue to participate in telehealth visits from home. . It also directs the U.S.

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NHPCO

JUNE 13, 2024

Hospice Action Week brings together leaders, advocates, and supporters from across the country to unite as one voice to drive positive, legislative change for the betterment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. “The cornerstone of effective advocacy is storytelling. .”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2022

Proposed federal legislation could advance the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care. The language appears in the 2023 appropriations bill for the departments of Labor, Health & Human Services, Education, and related agencies. The legislation “encourages” the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

’s (NASDAQ: AMED) trajectory in 2023 is a tale of three companies, and they should be watched for three reasons. Among the considerations behind that choice was his experience in working with payers outside of traditional Medicare. A forthcoming second story will focus on nonprofit providers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) requirement that hospices provide bereavement care for 13 months following a patient’s death.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

million in the state’s 2023 fiscal year budget to support pediatric palliative care access. Services provided through the program include consultation for pain and symptom management, nursing services, mental health counseling, family support and bereavement care. Massachusetts legislators recently allocated more than $8.7

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

In 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the GUIDE model for at-home dementia patients and their family caregivers. One model for caregiver support, proposed by Sorayya Alam and team in “ Palliative Care for Family Caregivers ” in the Feb.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Becoming Medicare-certified in April 2023, the hospice served its first patient last June. We got our license in April 2023 and accepted our first patients on June 7, 2023. We have a social worker, medical director, chaplain services, nursing care and nursing assistants, and bereavement and volunteer coordinators.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

The study spanned the telehealth experiences of terminally ill cancer patients 29 years old and under who were eligible to receive hospice care between 2021 and 2023. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually, as well as face-to-face recertification visits.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

In addition to clinical care, the new location will provide grief and bereavement support groups, volunteer training, educational workshops and events as part of Blue Ridge Hospice’s community Grief and Loss Support Services program. Close to 40,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Virginia elected hospice in 2021, according to the U.S.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2022

You know, either they’ve come to the end of a disease trajectory or, you know, it may be something acute that hospice can step in, help the family with sort of making closure or getting as comfortable as they can with death and bereavement. But I always feel like hospice has been the caboose on the Medicare train.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

We know about 50% of all Medicare beneficiaries who are eligible for hospice care receive it. Another piece of legislation is a bereavement bill. If passed, it provides funding for bereavement programs to expand their services and reach people who might not otherwise have access to grief and support services.

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