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Diverse Utilization, Cost Trends Shaping Hospice Care Delivery

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of Medicare hospice decedents terminal conditions in 2023, according to a recent joint report by the Alliance and the Research Institute for Home Care. Key hospice findings The webinar discussion highlighted results from the joint repor t, dubbed the 2024 Hospice Chartbook, which examined Medicare hospice decedent trends during 2023.

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CMS Final Rule Gives Hospice 3.8% Pay Raise for 2023

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bump in their per diem payments for 2023, according to a final rule published today. The rule also contains a model for phasing in changes to the way CMS will use the wage index to inform payment rates in future years. Pay Raise for 2023 appeared first on Hospice News. The reimbursement increase is larger than the 2.7%

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Hospice of the Chesapeake Launches New Dementia Program Amid ‘Urgent, Significant’ Need

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Demographic trends were among the key factors that drove the program forward, said Monica Escalante, chief strategy and information officer at Hospice of the Chesapeake. The new program provides patients and their caregivers with direct support from Hospice of the Chesapeake’s interdisciplinary care team.

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2023’s Most Impactful Hospice Regulatory Moves

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Program integrity issues that have heated up in the hospice space during the past five years reached a boiling point in 2023. Hospice providers have seen an array of increased regulatory oversight in 2023. When CMS is looking at things, it’s a need to synthesize all that information under their belt.

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CMS Ramps Up Efforts to Root Out ‘Door Knocker’ Hospice Schemes

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Fraudulent marketing activity in part sparked CMS to launch a bilingual outreach toolkit for hospices, which the agency disseminated to providers and stakeholders in late July 2023. The agency anticipates more communication efforts to unfold on the horizon, he indicated.

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CMS Unresponsive to Congressional SFP Concerns

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2023, they and Reps. In their 2023 letter, the Congress members focused on four main concerns: The program would rely heavily on survey results, yet CMS has an extensive backlog for those inspections. Four members of Congress led by Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) have called for changes to the SFP.

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Key Trends That Will Shape the Hospice Industry in 2023

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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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