Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SCAN Health Plan is among the Medicare Advantage (MA) payers entering the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) payment demonstration in 2023. The four-year program — often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — launched Jan. Hospice VBID enters its third year in 2023.

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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. of pediatric patients die in the home.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2025

As the nations leading provider of end-of-life care, VITAS has had the privilege of serving Fort Worth for 37 years, Dengler said in a statement shared with Hospice News. Photo courtesy of VITAS Healthcare Photo courtesy of VITAS Healthcare VITAS Healthcare Inpatient Hospice Unit in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

Hospices are blazing trails toward growth, each provider with its own range of strategies. In 2023, the focus for many is to not only expand their core business but to spread further into the care continuum. In this story, Hospice News highlights the growth strategies of several providers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

A growing number of patients with various dementia-related conditions will need end-of-life care in coming years. Hospices preparing for rising demand are facing compliance challenges, as these patients often require longer hospice stays. A projected 12.7

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The prospect of stagnated per diems would be woeful news for hospice providers that are facing widespread wage increases along with inflation and other costs, according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Health and Hospice (NAHC). For this year, CMS increased the hospice base rate by 3.1%. set in 2023.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Croix Hospice often looks for markets in which hospice utilization is comparatively low, including historically underserved rural communities, St. Croix Hospice Founder and CEO Heath Bartness previously told Hospice News. The Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Farrah Daly, owner and founder of Evenbeam Neuropalliative Care LLC, told Palliative Care News that the current demand for neuropalliative care is “just the tip of the iceberg.” “So So many people with neurologic illness become distanced from the health care system,” Daly said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 25, 2024

The nonprofit holds hospice certificates of need (CON) for hospice care in 18 Florida counties. “We The delivery of compassionate hospice care is critical for patients and their families, and we’re committed to delivering that to high-need Floridians.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recent studies spanning various countries have found that location matters for patients with cancer and opioid disorders when it comes to end-of-life care delivery, costs and outcomes. Settings examined included acute care hospitals, health care clinics, long-term care facilities and the home.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

“For people who don’t have a caregiver in their home, we can put them in our facility and they can live there until their natural death, and they’ll have access to specially trained caregivers in end-of-life care,” Strzalka told local news. The organization planned to begin construction in 2022 and open by the end of 2023.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Today’s hospice executives are entering the field with change in mind for improved quality. But concerns have mounted around sustainable growth strategies that will keep pace with rising demand amid myriad challenges in end-of-life care delivery. Changes to the hospice benefit are long overdue, Brubaker Miller said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The film is based on director Laura Chinn’s personal experience as her brother Max received inpatient care at the Suncoast Hospice Care Center, an actual facility operated by the Florida-based nonprofit Empath Health. The Terry Schaivo story is not ours to tell, but many of those components affect end-of-life care every day.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

A group of Wisconsin-based organizations, including hospices, are working to improve end-of-life care among homeless populations. Dubbed Solace Home, the four-bed residential facility opened today and will provide end-of-life housing and caregiving for terminally ill individuals living in unstable or insecure situations.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A mounting concern is that fraudsters stepping into the hospice industry have been implementing marketing and outreach practices that at times mirror strategies utilized by quality providers, according to Jeanne Chirico, president and CEO of the Hospice & Palliative Care Association of New York State (HPCANYS).

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Set to open this summer, the hospice facility will feature 15 patient beds at Lourdes Senior Community in Waterford, Michigan. Expanding hospice care in the senior community will allow for improved support and care collaboration, according to Angela Hospice President and CEO Marti Coplai.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many medical and nonmedical issues can be exacerbated at the end of life among unhoused and homeless seniors compared to others, according to James Patrick Hall, executive director of Rocky Mountain Refuge. The Denver-based nonprofit organization offers shelter for people with end-of-life care needs.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The center is designed for hospice care that addresses the unique needs, personal preferences and cultural beliefs of various community members at the end of life, according to Roberts. The PeaceHealth Richard Nau Hospice House opened on Jan. We recognize how important hospice care is to the community.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Haven holds hospice certificates of need (CON) for hospice care in 18 Florida counties. “We We are excited to welcome Haven Hospice into BrightSpring, expanding our existing hospice services into the CON state of Florida,” said Rousseau in a statement. billion in the same period in 2023.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

If such a model were to be implemented permanently, it would allow patients who are afraid or not ready for hospice care to receive the benefits without losing access to other services, according to Edo Banach, president and CEO of the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). “Our

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Like hospice, the nation’s palliative care market is also anticipated to boom in coming years. Palliative care is among the next market areas to hit substantial growth, according to BofA research. palliative care market will reach $78.50 billion by 2023, a climb from $49.42 Forces pushing markets ahead.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

The new law requires the New York State Department of Health to develop a public awareness campaign to promote advance care planning. The campaign must include education about hospice and palliative care, according to the newly approved legislation. Work on the campaign will begin after the law becomes effective in early 2023.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Spiritual hospice care providers are an important link to building bridges of access and trust among underserved African American populations. The discriminatory experiences have led to mistrust in the health care system at large, as well as underutilization of end-of-life care, Praver indicated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

11, 2023, but will likely be extended through at least April. Volunteers fill care delivery gaps, generate savings. Hospice of Santa Cruz County has turned to local educators to help shore up its volunteer resources. Historically, about 10% of the hospice’s volunteers who visit patients are pre-med students.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The bipartisan legislation was introduced in December 2023 by Sens. The bill builds upon the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, designed to speed transitions to patient-centered, value-based care. There’s a lot of quality improvement in care that can be had from end-of-life care,” Pittman said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Tennessee Quality Care operates 17 locations serving an average of 1,800 patients daily throughout 50 of the 95 counties in its home state. About 70% of its business is home health, including private duty, with hospice care comprising 30%. The deal is set to close in the third quarter of the year.

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2024

Compassus’ nearly 7,000 employees care for more than 120,000 patients each year in 30 states. “As our teams come together, we’ll continue to focus on patients, partnership and innovation to deliver superior care.” 2023, as well as similar arrangements with other providers. This is a rise from 17.8%

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Close to 5,900 hospices operated in the United States during 2002. More than 49% of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice care during 2022, up from 47.3% Case in point, MedPAC for several years running has asked lawmakers to cut the hospice aggregate cap by 20%, but Congress and CMS has not followed suit.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Aging LGBTQ+ populations have few options for quality end-of-life care – particularly those in rural areas – and hospices are ramping up efforts to reach them. Access to hospice can be challenging for many seniors in remote or rural regions.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Early in the program, Oliver, who hosts the show, acknowledged the value of hospice care done right. Lots of dedicated people work with hospices, providing huge relief for dying patients and their families, particularly those who want to remain at home, where, in most cases, hospice care is provided,” Oliver said on the air.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

A group of hospice providers and data scientists at the New Jersey-based health system have developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology aimed at helping its clinical teams to better identify when a patient is nearing the end of life or could benefit from serious illness care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Staffing issues have increasingly been at the root of leading causes behind shuttered hospice programs nationwide. Demographics are pushing up demand for end-of-life care amid long-standing staffing shortages in hospice. pay increase for hospice care for Fiscal Year 2023.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Concern is mounting around whether current health equity initiatives will be a flash in the pan or yield long term improvement on reducing disparities in hospice care among communities of color. Many people who could benefit from hospice are not getting the care they deserve,” Deese told Hospice News in an email. “We

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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. The home health organization has provided care in Denver, Colorado, since 1923. That was a really foundational year for us.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

This is the first of a two-part service that will detail key findings from recent research on hospice care, featuring numbers that could influence they ways hospices communicate and operate. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

The thing to watch for particularly in the hospice realm is oversight on claims, quality and performance — even to the point of dealing with fraud and abuse in the hospice benefit,” said NAHC President Bill Dombi during its recent 2023 Industry Outlook webinar. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving hospices a 3.1% That will translate to a $780 million bump to hospice payments next year compared to Fiscal Year 2023, according to CMS. set in 2023. payment boost the agency initially proposed for 2024 hospice payments back in March.

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