Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 proposed hospice rule contained requests for information (RFIs) that could signal changes in the agency’s thinking on key issues. Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Alliance hinted that it was inching closer to a leadership decision earlier this month after completing an affiliation in June between the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

The senior care advocacy group LeadingAge has praised the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) inquiries into high-acuity palliative care, but expressed concern over reimbursement and staffing issues. The agency posed similar queries in its proposed rule for 2024.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included the updates in its proposed hospice payment rule for 2025. If finalized as written, the changes would take effect in January 2025. Performance on these surveys is crucial as more payers and consumers use public quality data to choose a hospice.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has voted to recommend a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The 2021 aggregated Medicare hospice margin was 13.3%, according to MedPAC.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec. Often called the “hospice carve-in,” the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, in addition to some coverage of palliative care and transitional care.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

The Medicare Hospice Benefit is ripe for change nearly four decades after its establishment, but moving the needle will include a heavy lift around evolving regulations. This is according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). But hospice has moved into a new era.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

The recruitment initiative is the fruit of a collaboration between Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire (VNH) and the Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care Alliance of New Hampshire (the Alliance). Currently in development stages, the first cohort of nurses is projected to begin in July 2025.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

If enacted, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, would as of 2025 extend the flexibilities by two years. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), they would not be able to recertify via telehealth. It also includes some exceptions. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Earl Blumenaur (D-Oregon) and announced in June at the Hospice News Elevate conference, the bill proposed massive reimbursement and regulatory changes to the Medicare Hospice Benefit. The drafted Hospice CARE Act included potential avenues to improve payment for high-acuity palliative treatments. Developed by U.S. 1, 2026 through Sep.

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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. Currently set to expire Dec. The bill has since stalled on the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2024

Kulik is responsible for the M&A firm’s hospice, home health, home care, pediatric and private duty markets across the Eastern United States. hike in the 2025 final hospice payment rule is insufficient amid inflation, economic and wage pressures. Concern has mounted over lagging annual reimbursement increases.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Logan Hoover, vice president of policy and government relations for the National Alliance for Care at Home, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Hospice News. Looking ahead to 2025, what do you foresee as being different about the hospice industry? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS)] efforts there.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2024

Nonprofit providers have largely made up the bulk of organizations in the end-of-life care space since the Medicare Hospice Benefit was established roughly four decades ago. Roughly half of Medicare decedents utilize hospice each year, reported the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many established services for the purpose of selling the license at a profit or defrauding Medicare. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rolled out a swath of new measures to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the space. CMS in November finalized the 2024 home health rule , which included hospice oversight measures.

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Comforcare Home Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here are some Medicare changes you might want to know about. Medicare will be able to negotiate drug prices (starting in 2023). Out-of-pocket insulin costs will be capped at $35/month for Medicare. Out-of-pocket drug costs on Part D will be capped at $2000/year starting in. participants (starting in 2023).

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AlayaCare

JUNE 16, 2022

What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 The issue remains elusive when it comes to firm answers. But there’s no longer denying what’s happening in countries like the United States.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 17, 2022

What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 The transition to a value-based care delivery model is projected to benefit patients, providers, payers, vendors, and society as a whole.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Longer general inpatient hospice stays and high-cost issues are reasons for the audit, dubbed the “Audit of Selected, High-Risk Medicare Hospice General Inpatient Services,” according to OIG. Through the audit, OIG will determine whether hospice providers that billed for general inpatient care complied with Medicare requirements.

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NHPCO

AUGUST 26, 2024

“I’ve had the opportunity in my career to see the health care industry from many vantage points, and in this new role with The Alliance, I will use all that I have learned to make a difference for our members as we continue to expand to meet the growing public needs for our care.” Find the latest on the NAHC and NHPCO websites.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 14, 2020

AlayaCare on site at top industry conference January 19-22 in Miami Next week, the nation’s top conference for leaders in home and hospice care heads to Miami as Home Care 100 lands January 19-22. And the Home Care 100 agenda rightly brings risk tolerance into the discussion.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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NHPCO

JULY 11, 2024

It supports access to compassionate care around the world through partnerships, research and education, and raising awareness of the need for access to hospice and palliative care. Dr. Harper’s advocacy also impacted hospice care domestically, particularly in her pivotal role in integrating hospice care benefits into Medicare.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

New Day Health Care started in mid-2020, the middle of COVID at what seemed to be a peak of uncertainty. Given that timing, we often rethink everything about home care when we’re facing a pandemic that is rapidly changing home care and hospice delivery dynamics. At the time, facilities were closed.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 7, 2022

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually, as well as face-to-face recertification visits. If enacted, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, would — as of 2025 — extend the flexibilities by two years.

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