Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The payment model is designed to improve quality of life for dementia patients and their caregivers by addressing care coordination, behavioral health and functional needs. Also participating in the model are primary care operators that also offer palliative care. Many of those providers agree. million people.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to extend the value-based insurance design (VBID) model through 2030: patients’ social needs, health equity and improved care coordination. This includes the hospice benefit component, often called the Medicare Advantage carve-in, CMS confirmed.

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2024

The grief care startup Betterleave has established partnerships with two Texas Hospices, Sonder Hospice in Austin and LoveWell Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Though the company still pursues those employer relationships, in late 2022 it began to seek partnerships with hospices.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Over time, Medicare Advantage plans will likely have a greater presence as hospice payers, and now is the time for providers to build relationships those organizations. Originally slated to end in 2024, CMS recently extended the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) to 2023. million beneficiaries.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Croix Hospice recently unveiled data showing how the company leveraged predictive analytics technology to improve quality outcomes. In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. Croix Hospice. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

As dementia-related illnesses continue to rise among hospice patients, caregivers and providers alike are working judiciously to best find ways to support patients and their families in navigating these new diagnoses. In July 2023, the U.S. As of 2023, according to the CMS website, dementia affects more than 6.7

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Compassus on Wednesday completed its partnership with the health system OhioHealth, a move aimed at improving care coordination and access. Through the deal, Compassus acquired ownership interest in three of OhioHealth’s hospice locations and four of its home health locations. of its overall population, the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) payment model will launch on Jan. 1, 2023, and hospices that collaborate with participating ACOs could realize some unique benefits. If effectively structured, these arrangements can bring hospices a number of advantages.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Utah-based Canyon Home Health & Hospice recently acquired Uintah Home Health and Hospice for an undisclosed amount, growing its footprint in the Beehive State state. Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. Its hospice utilization rate reached 60.5%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum. An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. Palliative care and hospice share some common goals with hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

The incidence of end-stage heart failure is expected to rise throughout the next decade, and hospices are preparing to serve those patients when they become eligible. The number of people who suffer from heart failure is expected to rise by 46% between 2012 and 2023, the American Heart Association (AHA) reported.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Bristol Hospice has been a prolific buyer in the hospice M&A market, but the company is now leaning heavily into its de novo strategy. The Salt Lake City-based hospice provider opened double-digit numbers of de novos last year with expectations of doing the same in 2024. We’ll do the same this year. That was my background.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. I really grew up in health care, and it always resonated with me. I wasn’t seeking hospice.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

2023 memorandum. Among their queries, MAC sought information on how the merger could affect performance on quality metrics as well as access to care for Oregon’s Medicaid beneficiaries. “The The post SCAN Group, CareOregon Put the Brakes on Planned Merger appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Hospice of the Panhandle Promotes New CEO from Within West Virginia-based Hospice of the Panhandle has appointed Chief Clinical Officer Nikki Bigiarelli as its new CEO. Bigiarelli will work alongside its current CEO Margaret Cogswell before she retires on June 1, 2023. The hospice world is constantly changing,” Bigiarelli said.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Drake Jarman, senior vice president of growth of hospice at Amedisys Inc. NASDAQ: AMED) has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This year has brought both tumultuous challenges and evolving opportunities for hospices that will steer hospice leadership during 2024. Hospice News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most impactful forces that will shape the space in the coming year. CEOs and other hospice executives also noted emerging themes.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

New symptoms come up, new side effects,” Frydman told Hospice News. “I I am excited to join Thyme Care because it is a value-based cancer care company that is focused on not only helping oncologists take care of patients well, but also everything that happens in between those visits, through a virtual navigation model.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

million patients in value-based care arrangements across all of its clinical business lines. This reflects patient census growth of about 900,000 people during 2023. revenues growth during 2023, reaching $371.6 The post Optum a Rising Star at UnitedHealth Group, Has More Room to Grow appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a new payment model demonstration geared toward dementia-related illnesses, which are becoming more prevalent among hospice patients. Participating operators may also receive payment for respite care. CMS will release the application for GUIDE in Fall 2023.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Technology, cost control, and family caregiver support have emerged as cost-saving strategies as headwinds mount for hospice providers. Efficiency has become a watchword in the hospice space. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) raised hospice per diems by 3.8% While we believe the 3.8% 3 cost-saving strategies.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

In this interview, Hospice News sits down with Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Home Health and Hospice, MatrixCare , to talk ab out the most pressing challenge facing providers in today’s hospice landscape — staffing. Hospice News: What life and career experiences do you most draw from in your role today?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The needs of today’s seriously ill patients necessitates the development of new, longitudinal care models that integrate the patient-centered principles of hospice and palliative care, Dr. Darren Schulte, CEO of VyncaCare, told Hospice News. there’s a lot of gaps in care for patients.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. We’re very pleased to be a four-star quality hospice provider.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. Hospice News: Excellent. Klaustermeier: Sure.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. To learn more, visit: [link].

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

She explains why VNS is bullish toward concerns about a hospice carve-in, and she also shares an outlook on the VBID demonstration’s extension through 2030. Additionally, she discusses VNS’s outcomes-driven approach to end-of-life care, and how they are helping other organizations employ a similar approach.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

These issues have been top of mind for many hospice providers as they shape their care models around future patient demand and priorities. Hospices have increasingly diversified their services to better address a broader range of unmet needs among patients and their caregivers. Hartford Foundation.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

Research trends can help hospice providers improve their understanding around the impacts of their services and where quality gaps may exist. Research on global and national levels can play an important role in the ability to understand issues around hospice utilization and disparities.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The good news is that the financial case for comprehensive dementia care is changing thanks to a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) alternative payment model (APM) called Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model. You cannot be in hospice. The intermediary care. So that’s one.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Medicare Advantage (MA) is a growing force in health care. While the program currently does not cover hospice outside of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model demonstration , it remains one of the few reimbursement pathways for palliative care and services to address social determinants of health.

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