Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The flexibilities have allowed palliative care providers to reach patients in rural areas and hard-to-reach locations. The unknowns of potential for changes in telehealth regulations are among the leading concerns among palliative care providers, according to Shelby Moore, CEO, Heartlinks.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Grief’s care largest staffing gaps The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires hospices to offer bereavement care for a minimum of 13 months following a patient’s death. Many providers extend this care to communities across their service regions, regardless of whether the deceased was a patient.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

hospice industry as a whole is projected to bring in roughly $34 billion in revenue during 2024, Jackson indicated. This is a rise from Medicare hospice expenditures that reached $23.7 billion in 2022, Medicare (MedPAC) reported. Hospice care was found to save Medicare approximately $3.5

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This year has brought both tumultuous challenges and evolving opportunities for hospices that will steer hospice leadership during 2024. Among them is an evolving conversation around potential changes to the Medicare Hospice Benefit, an increasing focus on equitable access and service diversification to engage patients further upstream.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to extend the value-based insurance design (VBID) model through 2030: patients’ social needs, health equity and improved care coordination. This includes the hospice benefit component, often called the Medicare Advantage carve-in, CMS confirmed.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. The agency is also releasing applications for participation for eligible Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) for calendar year 2024. It makes sense.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The analysis spanned various clinical trials and studies published between 2014 and 2024 that examined telehealth use within palliative care settings across the world. Much of the permanent Medicare changes to telehealth regulations are tied to behavioral and mental health services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recently finalized hospice payment rule. The proposed version of the 2024 rule contained several requests for information from providers, which included questions on potential health equity measures. The panel released its report in May.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new avenue of funding for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) with implications for palliative care providers. This proposed policy dovetails with the Advance Investment Payment (AIP) component of CMS’ ACO Primary Care FLEX payment model demonstration. “In

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Over time, Medicare Advantage plans will likely have a greater presence as hospice payers, and now is the time for providers to build relationships those organizations. Originally slated to end in 2024, CMS recently extended the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) to 2023. SCAN is a $4.3

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled the Making Care Primary (MC) model, which will launch in July 2024 in eight states — Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Washington.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Carelon is the health care services brand of the insurance company Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV), previously known as Anthem. CareMore, also an Elevance subsidiary, provides advanced primary care to more than 100,000 Medicare Advantage and Medicaid patients in nine states, as well as offering palliative care. “Our

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The 2024 final hospice payment rule included a modest payment increase for general inpatient care (GIP) at a time when regulators are zeroing in on increased utilization and longer stays. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included in the rule a 1.031% increase to hospice GIP services.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Among the program’s goals is to enroll at least 3,000 new Illinois patients into home-based primary care by 2024. “It million primary care visits in 2016. About 12% of the 2.1

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a new payment model demonstration geared toward dementia-related illnesses, which are becoming more prevalent among hospice patients. Participating operators may also receive payment for respite care. The eight-year demonstration model will begin July 1, 2024. “It’s

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

A direct contracting entity (DCE), CareConnectMD offers primary care, palliative care, and care coordination services. The company expects to begin operating in Las Vegas, Nevada and Arizona next year and in Wisconsin in 2024.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Its business model uses a mix of virtual palliative care, advance care planning, care coordination and symptom management services, among others. We can make money with palliative care, and so we hope to achieve that by the beginning of the first half of 2024. We do traditional Medicare.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Salt Lake City-based hospice provider opened double-digit numbers of de novos last year with expectations of doing the same in 2024. Bristol Hospice Bristol Hospice Alex Mauricio, president and CEO, Bristol Hospice Historically, Bristol has been a very active acquirer, do you anticipate more deals in 2024?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

“We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) efforts to revamp the process, aimed at improving the quality of care. These include rules pertaining to patient rights, initial comprehensive assessments, interdisciplinary care planning and care coordination. The pandemic temporarily stalled the U.S.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 25, 2024

The recently published “Quality in Motion: Acting on the CMS National Quality Strategy April 2024” highlights further evolution of the 2022 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Quality Strategy (NQS). National reach, stratified, and most importantly, evidence based. How is testing of measures completed?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Palliative care providers have explored diverse routes to improve quality and access to their services in 2024. The topics spanned evolving reimbursement trends, innovative care delivery partnerships and research examining the biggest barriers among undeserved populations.

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Comfort Home Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

In this article, we share the most significant trends and predictions for the home healthcare industry in 2024, as reported by Home Health Care News. Our mission is to equip you with invaluable insights, enabling you to skillfully navigate these forecasts to help you obtain the best possible care for your cherished family members.

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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). The number of hospice care days also saw increases, as did average length of stay and average number of patient visits per week.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

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. A map of approved GUIDE organizations as of July 2024, based on CMS data.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

The study points to the potential for telehealth utilization to improve care coordination and quality for dying pediatric populations, researchers stated. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually, as well as face-to-face recertification visits.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

AUGUST 25, 2023

Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that announces and solicits public comments from us on proposed policy changes for Medicare payments. These proposed policy changes include training for family caregivers and navigation system support. dementia) in carrying out a treatment plan.

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