Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That growth has continued into 2023, with at least 157 plans offering home-based palliative care, according to data from Washington, D.C. That growth has continued into 2023, with at least 157 plans offering home-based palliative care, according to data from Washington, D.C.-based based research and consulting firm ATI Advisory. “I

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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. Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

However, the concept of personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, can extend beyond the realm of genetics, according to Dr. Howard McCleod, medical director for precision medicine and professor of medicine and biology at Utah Tech University. I take it beyond genetics. Between 2012 and 2019, only 6.8%

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Toronto Star Feature [link] CityNews Toronto Feature [link] Psychosocial Interventions at PEACH In addition to medical care, PEACH also runs two key psychosocial interventions for our clients: PEACH Grief Circles Structured spaces for workers in the homelessness sector to process grief. See if you can pick out the moment. Homelessness?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

For many medical providers across the country, palliative care services can be an unknown option for several patients and their families. Cathy Wozniak is the executive director of Hospice & Palliative Care of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts (HPCMV). million people in the United States, including 25.7

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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. KanTime can capture affiliated providers, documents and palliative care-to-hospice transitions seamlessly by overlaying medical records for easy reference.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Hospice and palliative care will be a “strong focus” of services provided at the new senior living facility, Heartlinks Adult Family Home, said Shelby Moore, the organization’s executive director. Other services available include 24/7 access to personal care, assistance with activities of daily living, medication management and respite care.

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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. Tom Cornwell, national medical director of Village Medical at Home in Chicago, indicated.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

About 128 new enrolled hospices entered California in 2023, according to data from CMS. Overall, about 69% of all newly licensed hospices in 2023 were located in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas. Some of these medical directors had a history of license suspensions or other prior disciplinary actions, according to the executive.

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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

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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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%. ” In 2022, CMS paid $23.9

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

This can result in patients coming to hospice later in the course of their illnesses, according to Lee, who also serves on the board of directors at the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN). But clinical education will need a much larger boost to ensure a sustainable workforce, according to many providers.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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 They’re disconnected socially, physically and distanced from medical support structures. –

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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

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

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

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). . “We

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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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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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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. Tim 01:40 Wonderful to be here. Thanks for having me. Joe 01:54 Thanks so much.

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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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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. Dr. Kollas has served as a medical expert witness in cases involving opinions regarding the standard of care in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine.

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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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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. Our members deliver and expand access to high-quality, person-centered interdisciplinary care to millions of Americans.

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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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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. Author: Ruth M. All highlighted the needs of patients and their families.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. There’s medications, there’s palliative care, there’s working in a team, there’s frailty. This led the FDA to give full approval for lecanemab, which will likely be followed by full approval of donanemab sometime this year.

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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. Palliative care providers are seeing an increasingly diverse range of dementia patients with varying symptoms and psychosocial issues, according to Dr. Bethany Snider, chief medical officer at Pallitus. For a complete list of GUIDE organizations, click this link.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The MVP for them is care navigator, medical director, or a clinician who could be advanced care practice PA or a physician who have one of three factor. So we came out with a report in March of 2023, followed it on the heels of a report that we had done in November, 2022. They do what we call it minimally viable standard.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done?

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