Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

He joined BoldAge in July 2023. So this means empowering individual medical directors in each of our centers so that they know how to be medical directors, to be able to teach the providers and oversee the providers. What are some of the key skill sets that an effective medical director should have?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

31, 2023, Contessa was a stakeholder in at least 10 joint ventures that were actively admitting patients, according to the SEC filing. Gavin Baumgardner, national medical director for palliative and complex care for Contessa, told Hospice News. “We’re We’re seeing internal growth within those existing programs.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

31, 2023, Contessa was a stakeholder in at least 10 joint ventures that were actively admitting patients, according to the SEC filing. The UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) subsidiary in June 2023 agreed to acquire Amedisys for $3.3 million in Q4 2023, an improvement from $6.6 The wild card, however, is Optum. million in 2022.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

However, the annual Medicare Trustees Report for 2023 provides a more detailed look at hospice spending. In 2022 and 2023, hospital spending growth is projected to accelerate substantially to 9.3%.” Medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recruiting and retaining palliative care professionals can be a difficult feat for organizations, in part because not enough medical and nursing students are exposed to palliative care during their education. Last year also brought the announcement of the fist palliative fellowship graduate of St. In 2022 Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Aging Media Network, a WTWH Healthcare company, is proud to announce the Frontline Honors Class of 2023. “We are excited to announce the Frontline Honors Class of 2023, which showcases individuals who have put patients, residents and their team members ahead of themselves to help their organizations flourish.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Contessa is currently in talks with a number of other Medicare Advantage organizations to pursue similar, but not identical, contracts, Dr. Gavin Baumgardner, vice president and national medical director of Palliative Care at Home at Contessa, said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference. “We’re

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989. Thus far in 2024, 625 patients have been active in the program; 1,000 were enrolled in 2023. He returned to hospice care part time from 2010 to 2014 from his home base in Napa County.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

The new location will allow for improved support for serious and terminally ill patients that lack caregiver support or need higher levels of care, said Dr. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. The organization planned to begin construction in 2022 and open by the end of 2023.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care. The language appeared in the 2023 appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health & Human Services, Education, and related agencies. Hospices are not reimbursed enough to support grief care teams,” Gross told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Cathy Wozniak is the executive director of Hospice & Palliative Care of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts (HPCMV). Alongside the organization’s medical director, Dr. Lisa Vieira, she shared recent statistics, showcasing just how imperative palliative care options can be for many Americans.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Becoming Medicare-certified in April 2023, the hospice served its first patient last June. We got our license in April 2023 and accepted our first patients on June 7, 2023. We have a social worker, medical director, chaplain services, nursing care and nursing assistants, and bereavement and volunteer coordinators.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The national average hourly rate for hospice aides and CNAs rose 9.09% in 2022, compared to a 4.52% increase in 2021, according to the 2022-2023 Hospice Salary & Benefits Report , published by Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). .

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The nation’s four largest hospice industry organizations — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) — in late 2023 conducted a 133-respondent provider survey focused on regulation.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Hospice would likely change from the Medical Director-led IDT team with standard COPS, to a landscape of payer-source-driven rules for each patient. What are some of the key steps providers can take to best prepare for VBID in 2023 and beyond? Finish this sentence: “The hospice industry in 2023 will be the year of…”.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

million in 2023, a rise from $5.33 The new senior living center will be staffed with a team of nurses, a medical director and an interdisciplinary care team. We aim to make end-of-life care more accessible in our region, especially for those who have been unable to find placement in other care facilities.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

AAHPM president and vice president and national medical director of Aspire Health. pay increase for hospice in Fiscal Year 2023, a number that a number of stakeholders found disappointing. The more time that passes without legislative action, the further behind providers fall in filling their ranks, said Rotella.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This isolation can be compounded for LGBTQ+ seniors with terminal and serious illnesses, according to Dr. Jennifer Ritzau, vice president of medical staff services at HopeHealth, a Rhode Island-based hospice, palliative and home care provider. She also serves as medical director of palliative care at the nonprofit organization. “I

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

So 2023 is going to be an exciting year where we’re able to care for more patients; we’re able to care for more families; we’re able to support the communities more than we ever have,” VITAS CEO Nick Westfall told Hospice News. Others included Amedisys and Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHEM) VITAS Healthcare. “So

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 15, 2023

She is the national president-elect 2023-24 of the American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA). My current role is as the Clinical Nurse Specialist and ARNP for Renal, Dialysis, and Transplant at the University of Washington Medical Center. Please tell me about your role now and how your career brought you to this place.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. those experiencing homelessness). And everywhere I rotated.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

1, 2023, Medicare launched a new type of ACO program called ACO Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health ( ACO REACH ), which is gaining a lot of interest. ACO partnerships can boost value-based care rewards for providers and payers, Dr. Tom Cornwell, national medical director of Village Medical at Home in Chicago, indicated.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

The OIG announced a new focused audit that will be conducted in FY 2023. The OIG announced a new focused audit that will be conducted in FY 2023. The intake team will be instructed to gather data from other medical providers and present it to the hospice medical director for her review prior to scheduling an admission.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Longer stays reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%, according to a 2023 report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), and NORC at the University of Chicago. Enhabit and Encompass are joint plaintiffs in the case.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 22, 2023

The textbook includes chapters written by Hackensack University Medical Center cardiac care experts, including: “Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support,” by Kanika Mody, M.D., Medical Director of LVAD Service and Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, and Andrea Stuart, Chief PA of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So if it’s an absolutely emergency, you got a physician in the med, you know, the health center medical director, if it’s urgent, like in this particular case, we get the ethics committee involved. It’s been revised in 2023.

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NHPCO

JULY 25, 2023

Presence of corporate compliance plan: OIG announced it would be modernizing its Compliance Program Guidance (CPGs), including the industry-specific CPGs (ICPGs) by the end of 2023.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. As far as the numbers, pretty significantly.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

About the Authors: Lead author, Chad Kollas, MD, serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL. E-mail to Bev Schechtman, RE: HHS Case No: 2023-00091-FOIA-PHS, dated October 28, 2022, at 1:26:16 PM EDT. E-mail to Chad D.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 27, 2023

Thomson, DO MBA HMDC FACOI FAAHPM As one of AAHPM’s delegates, I had the privilege of representing the field of Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) 2023 Annual Meeting held in Chicago in mid-June. On behalf of all of the Academy’s delegates – myself, Chad, Ana L.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Shelise Valentine is an important nursing leader , and we’re pleased to profile her as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series 2023. Meet Shelise Valentine, the Director of Clinical Education at Healthcare Risk Advisors. Advising on policy formation. Reviews of root cause analysis. The inception of best practices.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. Instead of Biogen’s expected billions of dollars of revenue from Aduhelm, they brought in only $3 million in revenue for all of 2021 ( here is my Twitter summary of this fiasco ). Welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Sharon. Sharon: Thank you for having me again.

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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). Total Medicare hospice payments in 2023 reached $25.7 The hospice M&A market hit a slump in 2023 and 2024 due to a range of factors.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

The CMS Innovation Center announced the GUIDE demonstration in July 2023. 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.

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