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Hospice Oversight: 2024’s Most Impactful Regulatory Actions

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Some individuals also hold management positions at several of these hospices simultaneously. The Hospice Special Focus Program Finalized in the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2024 home health rule, the SFP is set for 2025 implementation. Chief among these is the so-called 36-month rule.

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Future Leaders: Logan Hoover, VP, Policy and Government Relations, National Alliance for Care at Home

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The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. In a word, how would you describe the future of hospice? To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Regulators Extend Some Telemedicine Flexibilities, Gauge Telehealth’s ‘New Path Forward’ in Hospice

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These waivers were initially set to expire on the same date in 2024/this year. With the end of 2024 quickly approaching, DEA, jointly with HHS, has extended current telemedicine flexibilities through December 31, 2025.”

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Hospice News’ Top 10 Stories of 2024

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Fraud and program integrity concerns dominated the news in 2024, along with large acquisitions, payment rules and regulatory changes. Meanwhile, lawmakers unveiled a bill with some of the most significant reforms proposed to date for hospice payment and oversight. The following are the most-read Hospice News articles of 2024. #1:

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CMS Names First Hospice Special Focus Program Cohort, Delays List of Future Candidates

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made public its first cohort for the hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). Finalized in the 2024 home health payment rule, the program is designed to identify poor performing hospices, mandate quality improvement and in some cases impose additional penalties.

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2024 NHPCO Facts and Figures Report Now Available

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Facts and Figures – the leading resource for hospice providers and others interested in understanding the work of the community – has been published annually for over two decades by NHPCO. This year COVID-19 continued to impact patient care as COVID-19 waivers were still in place through May 2023. With 49.1%

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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

Hospice News

“We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S. With Medicare accounting for the overwhelming majority of hospice payments, hospice care is at the mercy of the federal government to continue providing high quality care.

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