Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Most hospices are sliding into 2023 between a rock and a hard place, beset by headwinds, labor shortages and questions with no easy answers. Government oversight of hospice providers will tighten during 2023. These concerns will be a hot topic in the new year, but other regulatory actions are also underway for 2023.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2022

CMS in April released the 2023 proposed payment rule for hospice providers, including the 2.7% The 2023 proposal also contains a model for phasing in changes to the way CMS will use the wage index to inform payment rates in future years. . per diem rate increase.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Gross margin for the hospice segment fell slightly to 42.9% Hospice results were in part impacted by a -4% decrease in patient admissions and a 0.5% Other factors included rising hospice care delivery costs such as investments in clinical staffing and higher compensation and benefit costs, among others, the company reported.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If you were to write a book about hospice in 2023, what would you call it? To help answer that question, Hospice News asked the CEOs of eight providers how they would title a book about the state of the field today. Also, more care is going to a home-based environment. Barbara Jacobsmeyer, CEO, Enhabit, Inc.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The company expects the program to bring in roughly 25 new health care workers each month in 2023 at an estimated cost of $40 million, which VITAS hopes to offset with increased volume as staffing gains drive up capacity. “We VITAS launched the initiative in an effort to improve timely access to hospice care.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

The forthcoming Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act from U.S. Blumenauer announced the bill in June at the Hospice News Elevate conference in Washington D.C. In fiscal year 2023, over $1.2 Oftentimes, they live longer,” Blumenauer said at Elevate. 1, 2019 and Dec.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

Levy recently sat down with Hospice News to discuss the array of regulatory and legislative evolutions on the horizon in hospice care delivery. Can you share your background in hospice and home over the last decade, starting with your most recent role at Amedisys? I was promoted chief government affairs officer in 2023.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Generally, fewer clinicians has meant fewer patients have been receiving hospice care, according to industry observers and companies’ own reports. Executives attributed much of this growth to a community outreach program launched earlier this year, designed to educate clinician in other settings about the value of hospice care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The ability to demonstrate the value proposition of home health and community-based hospice care to drive quality outcomes and lower costs will be an important part of forming future regulations and reimbursement that foster sustainable growth, Jacobsmeyer indicated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

The locally- and veteran-owned hospice provider saw its first patient in 2023, and has met the challenges of rural hospice care delivery with both resilience and adaptability, according to Michael Brown, co-founder of Headwaters.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Staffing challenges were cited as the leading concern among 35% of 112 hospice professionals who participated in this years Outlook Survey by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase. This represented an 18% decline compared to the 2023 survey results.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Among the most significant dealmakers in the hospice space this year was Optum, subsidiary of the insurance and health care giant UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). The company initiated two of the largest hospice and home health transactions in recent memory. billion acquisition of LHC Group in 2023. Optum completed its $5.4

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

Hospices have much to offer in terms of evidence that their services can improve quality and goal-concordant care delivery while reducing costs, Jackson stated. However, providers are often financially challenged in the ability to offer the full scope of their interdisciplinary hospice services.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2025

The nonprofit organization has grown into one of the largest hospice providers in the nation. Empath in 2024 completed an affiliation process with Trustbridge, which offers palliative care, hospice care, support services and more. Empath serves 1 in 5 hospice patients across Florida, the company reported.

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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 20, 2024

Palliative interventions should be integrated into primary care for patients living with symptomatic multiple chronic conditions (MCC), a recent consensus paper indicated. primary care patient population, according to the U.S. “The patient population. Adults with MCC represent one of the highest-need segments of the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

During 2023 alone, national health care spending rose an estimated 7.5%. This reflects broad increases in the use of health care, which is associated with an estimated 93.1% Increased hospice utilization could help relieve part of the nation’s financial burden for health care, research has shown. GDP for that year.

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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

MAY 25, 2023

Massachusetts-based Advanced Home Care has acquired Dignity Hospice Care for an undisclosed amount. The transaction follows Advanced Home Care’s acquisition of Dignity Home Care late last year. The buyer company’s CEO Art Kalenjian will now take the helm at Dignity Hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For calendar year 2024, 13 Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) will participate in the program’s hospice component, providing coverage through 78 health plans in 19 states. In 2023, 15 MAOs participated in hospice VBID, including 119 health plans in 23 states. million in 2023. “It’s been a rocky road.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Photo courtesy of VITAS Healthcare Photo courtesy of VITAS Healthcare VITAS Healthcare Inpatient Hospice Unit in Fort Worth, Texas. Patients at the new facility will receive round-the-clock hospice care. Allina Health partnered with Seasons Hospice to reopen the health system’s inpatient center.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion in improper payments during 2023, though a smaller proportion of those dollars went to hospices than in years prior. Hospices received nearly 5.4% of improper payments from Medicare in 2023, down from 12% in 2022, according to a new report from the U.S. Medicare fee-for-service programs made $31.23

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

People, processes and technology are the future of hospice care and health care in general. increase for 2023 when you put all of the data together. What behavioral changes do agencies need to make to prepare for 2023 in light of the final rule? Agencies will need to prepare for OASIS-E before January 1st, 2023.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For example, data gathered from predictive analytics systems can give hospices an advantage when it comes to performance on measures like Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life (HVLDL) and the Hospice Care Index (HCI), as well as predicting when patients become hospice eligible or will be in need to home health or palliative care services.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

Margin pressures from the proposed cuts to Medicare home health rates could impact palliative care and hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in June released its proposed home health reimbursement rule for 2023, which included a 4.2% pay hike for hospice care in 2023.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Though the number of hospice M&A deals plummeted in 2023 compared to prior years, deals are still being made, and the industry may see a rebound in 2024. Transaction volume declined in the hospice and home-based care space in 2023, following the two record-breaking prior years. This followed its $5.4

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

What’s happening in these states has caused mounting concern around access to quality hospice care for LGBTQ+ individuals, according to Kimberly Acquaviva, social worker and professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Jessica McGlory, founder and CEO of the California-based hospice provider Guaranteed, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News. When I first learned about it, due to my dad having to go into hospice care, I asked why this had to happen and why it had to occur now. I would introduce more tech enablement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary also project that health care expenditures will represent 19.6% The report, published today in Health Affairs , did not contain hospice-specific data. However, the annual Medicare Trustees Report for 2023 provides a more detailed look at hospice spending.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For VITAS in particular, increases in clinical capacity has fostered steady growth during 2023. VITAS is the nation’s largest provider of hospice care by market share, according to 2020 data from LexisNexis. This, in tandem with a 3.1% base rate increase from the U.S. The company in Q3 saw a 12.5%

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2024

As of August 2023, CMS personnel had appeared at 7,000 locations, with plans to visit every hospice site in the country, according to a blog post by two CMS officials. Good hospice care, because of its holistic, patient- and family-centered compassionate approach to the dying, is a godsend,” Gurian told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2024

But what I will tell you is that there are programs in place where if the applicants go through the process and certify to CMS that they have a program that will service the needs of a community when it comes to hospice care — and they are able to meet the standards — that we will certify them to be able to provide hospice care,” Becerra said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The omnibus spending bill to currently before Congress includes provisions that would extend the waiver for recertification using telehealth through the end of 2024, among other items pertaining to hospice. Legislators have released the text of the most than 6,000-page bill that is intended to fund the federal government for Fiscal Year 2023.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Many of these patients could benefit from receiving hospice care sooner and longer, but regulatory requirements can make that a challenging feat for providers, she said. They could still benefit from hospice services earlier in their disease course, and for a much longer time.” A projected 12.7

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The nonprofit first launched the camp in 2023 with a second iteration planned for this year. The organization expects 10 to 12 participants in 2024, compared to about 30 for their more general grief programs for children, according to Ryan D’Amato, family support manager for Hoffmann Hospice.

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