Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Hospice budgeting practices hinge on several factors, according to Matt Chadwick, CFO of Well Care Health. Hospices strive to have sufficient staffing levels that meet rising end-of-life care demand, but finding a sustainable path involves careful balance sheet planning alongside operational awareness, he stated.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

increase in hospice per diems that CMS included in its 2025 proposed rule , Dombi said. The drafted Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act from U.S. Earl Blumenaur (D-Oregon) could be a beacon of change that aims to address the program integrity and payment issues in end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

31, these flexibilities allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually and conduct face-to-face recertification visits. The National Alliance for Care at Home spearheaded the effort. Introduced in May, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, would as of 2025 extend the flexibilities by two years.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

1, 2025, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center will begin implementing a payment model for primary care known as the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Primary Care Flex Model under the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). This fits nicely into palliative care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.” “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

extension of MACRA’s advanced APM incentive in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, which expired at the end of last year. There’s a lot of quality improvement in care that can be had from end-of-life care,” Pittman said. That opens the door to great potential for palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Attempting to measure and report on the quality of our care and service with our current systems is not giving us valuable or useful information — and that is what we are publicly showing our consumers! What do you foresee as being different about the hospice industry looking ahead to 2025? Time to adjust the sails!

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2022

Congressional legislators are casting doubts on regulatory oversight of Medicare Advantage plans over concerns about spending, claims denials, and end-of-life care. Chartis projects that MA will account for 50% of all Medicare beneficiaries by 2025. This reflects a total enrollment increase of 9% over 2021.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Veteran Guest House to Launch New Facility in Nevada Nevada-based Veterans Guest House announced plans to open a new six-bed hospice facility to support veterans and their families nearing the end of life The nonprofit hospice plans to open the facility by the summer of 2025 amid rising demand.

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NHPCO

MARCH 28, 2024

proposed rate increase for hospices is not enough to support the continued delivery of hospice care amidst rising cost pressures and ongoing workforce constraints affecting hospices nationwide,” said NHPCO COO and Interim CEO, Ben Marcantonio. We know that hospice care has demonstrated $3.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As much as $265 billion in health care dollars could shift from facilities to the home setting by 2025, according to a McKinsey & Company survey. Respondents were physicians who care predominantly for Medicare fee-for-service or Medicare Advantage patients.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2024

Investors of all types have increasingly recognized the value proposition of hospice to improve quality and reduce costs at the end of life – a trend not anticipated to abate anytime soon. From 2025 to 2055 and the next 20–30 years after that is going to be the ‘golden decades’ of hospice utilization.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

The legislation comes at a time of critical need for supportive services, according to Kerry Moss, palliative care division head at Connecticut Children’s. The pediatric provider launched its palliative care services roughly a decade ago, Moss said. The plan would have to be completed by Jan.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines. A 35-year health care veteran, Hagfors has led Partners In Care for more than two years. How do you tackle that problem?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The case illustrates the scale of activity occurring among fraudulent actors seeking a profit while providing poor or negligent care and exploiting the vulnerability of specific patient populations. #3: The first gauged the hospice communitys reaction to CMS final payment rule for 2025, including a 2.9% 9: [ UPDATED] Rep.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

But regulators may be behind the proverbial curve of innovative technology utilization and how it has impacted patient outcomes, family experiences and sustainable avenues for end-of-life care delivery, he added. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S.

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NHPCO

MARCH 5, 2024

CMS will no longer be accepting applications for the calendar year (CY) 2025 Request for Applications. This means hospice will no longer be a part of the VBID model beginning January 1, 2025. Hospice providers currently contracted with MAOs will continue with their contracts for CY 2024.

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NHPCO

JANUARY 12, 2024

On the other hand, NHPCO is disappointed by MedPAC’s recommendation to Congress that hospice reimbursement rates for patient care should not be updated in 2025, although by law hospice payment rates are pegged to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) inpatient hospital market basket rate.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It became clear to me that there was a profound need for a more compassionate, patient-centered approach to end-of-life care after putting my grandmother on hospice. She received inconsistent, impersonal and fragmented care, often leaving my family confused and fearful. What drew you to the hospice industry?

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 20, 2024

I imagine that as I continue in my second year of the program that these connections will continue to strengthen, and that my attendance at AAHPM 2025 will present an opportunity to learn and network in person. Next, I’m interested in determining how I’d like to practice palliative care after fellowship.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ve always cared about value, access and quality. This industry introduced me to those concepts in the context of end-of-life care. Knowing that for my family and the Black community there’s a lot of disparities in hospice care. I trained and received my graduate degree at Cleveland Clinic.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Alliance is encouraging hospice, palliative care, home care, home health, Medicaid HCBS, and pediatric care providers to save the dates for conferences to be held July 27-29, 2024, in Chicago, and November 2-4, 2025, in New Orleans. NHPCO provides education and resources to support that mission.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Raianne Melton: I just have to tell you, I have like two pages of stuff because there’s so much opportunity, and when we look at staffing in particular, in 2025, the majority, 75% of our employees are going to be millennials. What they care about is professional development. How would you respond to that?

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

DECEMBER 17, 2024

million Horizon Europe-funded project combines psychotherapy and psilocybin treatment to address critical gaps in end-of-life care. This milestone marks a significant step forward for the first fully EU-funded study of psilocybin therapy in palliative care, set to begin recruiting patients in 2025. in funding.

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NHPCO

JULY 11, 2024

Harper’s advocacy also impacted hospice care domestically, particularly in her pivotal role in integrating hospice care benefits into Medicare. To date, the Medicare Hospice Benefit has made dignified end-of-life care accessible to nearly 30 million Americans, and counting.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Closing date for applications is 5pm CET on 19 January 2025 About the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) is a leading nonprofit organisation dedicated to the promotion and development of palliative care across Europe.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2024

World Health Organization (2021) Global Strategic Directions for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery 2021-2025. 2017) Estimating the global need for palliative care for children: A cross-sectional analysis. World Health Organization. 2020) State of the world’s nursing 2020: Investing in education, jobs and leadership. 53(2):171-177.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Recent research has found that receiving high-acuity services alongside supportive care can help ease pain. The findings come as regulators navigate the future outlook of these services in end-of-life care delivery.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

This article details recent key research findings on hospice care, including the effects of telehealth utilization among terminally ill pediatric patients, along with barriers to improved goal-concordant end-of-life care in Asia, Canada and Europe.

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NHPCO

JULY 18, 2024

This acknowledgment underscores the importance of our collective mission to enhance quality and accessibility to serious illness and end-of-life care,” said Hoover. “I The integration process underway is expected to continue through the beginning of 2025. . “It is an honor to be recognized amongst my peers.

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