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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The bonus program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. VITAS launched the initiative in an effort to improve timely access to hospice care. The majority of these hires were nurses, Westfall indicated.
NHPCO
DECEMBER 13, 2023
The findings in this report reflect patients who received care in Calendar Year (CY) 2021, or Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, provided by hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. NHPCO Facts and Figures is an essential resource for the hospice community.
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Hospice News
DECEMBER 19, 2022
In 2022, the hospice community laid the groundwork for a transformational 2023. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. The following are the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022. #1 Pay Raise for 2023 (July 27).
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.
Hospice News
MARCH 14, 2024
Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.
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.
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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