Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Last year, Ohio’s Hospice — and its palliative care arm Pure Healthcare — entered into a VBID network contract with the CVS Health Corp. Branded at Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, it provides care in more than three communities across the UCH footprint. NYSE: CVS) subsidiary Aetna.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

The oncology-focused value-based enabler Thyme Care has launched a virtual palliative care program, branded as Enhanced Supportive Care. Cancer patients, like many other chronically ill individuals, often benefit from palliative care. Dr. Julia Frydman, formerly of Mt. Sinai Health System, will lead the new service.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

I say something like, Palliative care is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St. Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

We have some core specialty programs here [focused on sleep hygiene, care coordination within facilities and dementia care],” Bristol Hospice CEO Alex Mauricio previously told Hospice News. Bristol in 2023 opened a double-digit number of new offices and has plans to do the same this year, Mauricio said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2023, the number of MA plans will swell to 3,998, up 6% from 2022. During the program’s first year in 2021, 9,630 MA beneficiaries received hospice care through the VBID demo, and 525 utilized the program’s supplemental benefits, according to a report the RAND Corporation prepared for CMS. Among those benefits is palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Dubbed Julia House, the facility will provide inpatient hospice and serve as an outpatient palliative care clinic. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. The organization planned to begin construction in 2022 and open by the end of 2023. A new opening date has not yet been announced.

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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.

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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. Compassus provides home health, home infusion, palliative and hospice care across 30 states. Compassus’ 7,000 employees care for more than 120,000 patients annually.

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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. The organization recently held a conference with the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Originally slated to end in 2024, CMS recently extended the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) to 2023. When it comes to hospice VBID, numbers from the program’s first year offer few clues for the 2023-2024 landscape. CMS requires MA plans to ensure they are working with providers of high-quality care.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Participating operators may also receive payment for respite care. However, hospice and palliative care providers that offer upstream services may be uniquely suited to implement such a model, either directly or through a partnership. CMS will release the application for GUIDE in Fall 2023. million people.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

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. As of 2020, those individuals represented only about 10% of Medicare decedents who elected hospice, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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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. The training issue is a serious impediment to hospice recruitment, as very few students in any clinical discipline receive exposure to hospice or palliative care concepts.

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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. The study points to the potential for telehealth utilization to improve care coordination and quality for dying pediatric populations, researchers stated.

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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. That is basically standard standardizing our models of care, our support services, and our infrastructure (such as EMR systems).

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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. The company has raised at least $40.3

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“The investment in Uintah Basin Home Health and Hospice will allow us to enhance the care coordination with Uintah Basin Medical Center and provide better health outcomes for the patients and clients we serve in the Uintah Basin area.”. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Bigiarelli will work alongside its current CEO Margaret Cogswell before she retires on June 1, 2023. Palliative care will be expanded. Hospice of the Panhandle has provided end-of-life services in West Virginia for more than 40 years, and also offers palliative care and pediatric hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses. visits in the last seven days of life between May and November 2023. Croix received an average of roughly 10.3

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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 Optum Health currently serves more than 4.1 The company in Q4 of last year saw a 33.9%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A few of 2023’s largest hurdles include intensifying regulatory oversight as well as prolific workforce shortages amid rising demand. Hospice care reduces Medicare expenditures by about $3.5 Westfall Hospices have opportunities to continue to focus on high quality care and excellence.

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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. Obviously, palliative care fits in there.

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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. NASDAQ: AMED) has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

For members, a carve-in ensures a seamless care experience that spans their entire health journey. From palliative care to hospice, members are bolstered by access to high-quality providers and enhanced benefit flexibilities. For Medicare Advantage plans, a carve-in facilitates better care coordination and oversight.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Hospice News: I wanted to start by asking where the greatest opportunities for clinical innovation is in hospice care? They offer home health, they offer palliative care, and so forth. How would you respond to that?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

among Medicare decedents in 2023, up more than two percentage points from the prior year, according to recent data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). The number of hospice care days also saw increases, as did average length of stay and average number of patient visits per week. Hospice utilization reached 51.7%

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) has launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model with close to 400 participating organizations, including many palliative care providers. The CMS Innovation Center announced the GUIDE demonstration in July 2023.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The model is designed to address care coordination, behavioral and functional needs. Since its introduction in July 2023 the GUIDE model has illustrated two impactful considerations for hospice providers, according to Shugarman.

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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. We did a report on scaling comprehensive dementia care. Our job is to elevate this.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

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. The organization will begin participation in the VBID demo in 2023.

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