Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The soon-to-be-implemented hospice Special Focus Program (SFP) from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could produce misinformation that could interfere with access to care. It might make them even fearful about hospice care, which is the last thing we want to see happen.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Helios Care President, CEO to Resign Helios Care President and CEO Dan Ayres recently announced his resignation. Ayres will continue to serve in his current role until April 21, 2025. Ayres has led the New York-based hospice and senior care provider for the last eight years.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

The 2025 proposed hospice rule is raising some questions along with payment rates. increase in hospice per diems for 2025. The agency also proposed two new quality measures and 2025 implementation of the Hospice Outcome and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) assessment tool to replace the Hospice Item Set.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2025

Croix Hospice has opened 10 new branches so far during 2025. “National data demonstrates how underutilized hospice benefits are for those at the end of life,” said Dr. Financial terms of both deals were undisclosed. “We believe everyone deserves exceptional hospice care, and St.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has recommended to Congress a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. In its annual report to Congress, MedPAC urged policymakers to eliminate hospice base-rate increases for 2025. Close to 5,900 hospices operated in the United States during 2002.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

During those additional years, patients will be able to receive curative treatments in tandem with hospice care. Typically, Medicare enrollees who choose hospice services give up their right to receive health care services that are ‘curative.’ Further changes will occur in the larger model during the extension years.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2025

We’ve become a magnet for talent, and it’s because of the people here who have committed to charting a path of excellence in quality care, and innovation to meet the demands of tomorrow. The organization has been on the move in 2024 and 2025.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2025 hospice rule contains clarifications on which physicians may certify patients for hospice enrollment. The post 2025 Proposed Rule Seeks to Clarify Physician Certification of Hospice Patients appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not responded to congressional concerns about the hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). Set for 2025 implementation, the SFP promises to identify hospices delivering poor quality care and target them for improvement remedies.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 proposed hospice payment rule contained a request for information (RFI) on the potential implementation of reimbursement pathways for “high intensity palliative care services,” such as chemotherapy, blood transfusion and dialysis.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Hospice Investors to Watch Hospice merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has seen a cooling period compared to previous record-breaking years in the market. Stakeholders are projecting a more frothy market in 2025, with renewed signs of life among a diverse range of investors and available hospice assets.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

If enacted, the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act could open up reimbursement pathways for high-acuity palliative services during a time when demand and costs are rising. The drafted Hospice CARE Act included potential avenues to improve payment for high-acuity palliative treatments.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

Close to 20% of respondents to Hospice News 2025 Outlook survey indicated that they would be investing in AI or predictive analytics systems this year. One of hospices key goals with AI is to increase efficiency. It can summarize large swaths of data through generative AI application, just a ton of opportunities.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

3 emerging technologies Predictive analytics, remote patient monitoring and virtual reality therapies are three emerging technologies that are becoming increasingly prevalent among hospices, according to an Axxess report shared with Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2025

The barometer is falling in hospice care delivery. Adaptability is a providers hallmark in todays current hospice landscape, according to Greg Wood, executive director at Hospice of the Ozarks. Regulatory complexities Two main regulatory factors are impacting hospice quality in 2025.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Hospice providers across the country have recently launched new inpatient facilities as 2025 unfolds. The new year may also bring closures of certain hospice programs. VITAS Opens 2 New Locations VITAS Healthcare on Wednesday announced the opening of its new inpatient hospice unit in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Mayo Clinic acquisition included the health systems hospice assets in southwestern Minnesota. The two organizations recently entered into an agreement, which is anticipated to close in the first quarter of 2025, pending regulatory approvals.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2025

New executives have stepped into c-suite and other roles at some of the nations largest hospice organizations as 2025 kicks off. Johnson will oversee the work of Empaths several foundations Suncoast Hospice Foundation, Tidewell Foundation, Hospice of Marion County Foundation and Trustbridge Hospice Foundation.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2025

Amedisys is selling an unspecified number of home health and hospice locations to Adoration Home Health Acquisitions, LLC, Adoration Hospice Care Acquisitions, LLC, and Senescence, LLC, DBA All Saints Hospice. UnitedHealth Group is also divesting a number of its own care centers as a part of these transactions.

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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 hospice component of VBID, also called the MA carve-in, launched in 2021 and was originally slated to complete after four years.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Both organizations bring a rich history and awareness of the challenges and opportunities in home health and hospice care delivery, said Bill Dombi, interim Co-CEO of the NAHC-NHPCO Alliance. The alliance is anticipated to take shape under a new name by January 2025, he indicated. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon).

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may not have accounted for the financial and administrative burdens associated with its implementation of the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) Tool. The tool is slated for an October 2025 implementation, according to the proposed rule.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

The nations health care system is ripe for change when it comes to improved hospice utilization that could help curb expenditures and improve outcomes, Jackson said during Hospice News 2025 Industry Outlook webinar. Hospice care was found to save Medicare approximately $3.5

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Hospice industry organizations have voiced support for proposed updates to the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, but raised questions on the implementation timeline. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included the updates in its proposed hospice payment rule for 2025.

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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. This recommendation is offered at a time when hospice care costs have risen faster than any inflation update provided by CMS,” Dombi told Hospice News in an email. “A

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

Hospice care delivery costs have been on the rise as more seniors with terminal illnesses reach the end of life. Hospice claims represent roughly $24 billion in Medicare spending, according to Dombi. increase in hospice per diems that CMS included in its 2025 proposed rule , Dombi said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 11, 2024

‘We wish to emphasize that it is not NPHI’s position to oppose all PE associated activity in the hospice market,” the organization indicated in its comments. In 2022, 5,899 hospices provided care to Medicare beneficiaries, up 10% year-over-year, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Meanwhile, lawmakers unveiled a bill with some of the most significant reforms proposed to date for hospice payment and oversight. Dubbed as the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, the bill has ignited conversations across the industry about future sustainability, growth and program integrity.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

clinical power means mastering timely initiation of care. 30% of home health patients dont get initiated into care for seven days as an industry, we have to look at those numbers and decide, as leaders, its unacceptable, Compassus CEO Mike Asselta said last month during a panel discussion at the Home Care 100 conference.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This Hospice News Elevate Conference Survey aims to uncover key insights about the trends, challenges and innovative strategies shaping the delivery of hospice care in 2025.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Favorable demographics are among the factors that make Missouri an attractive market for hospices. by 2025, up from 13.5% Croix Hospice often looks for markets in which hospice utilization is comparatively low, including historically underserved rural communities, St. . in 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The data come at a time when regulators are mulling over the future outlook of high-acuity services in end-of-life care. Legislators have also increasingly recognized a need to open up reimbursement pathways for high-acuity palliative care services as demand and costs swell.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The cap is designed to prevent overuse of hospice, put controls on Medicare spending and foster greater access to care among patients. In 2025, this will rise to $34,465. One key to cap management is to find an appropriate mix of long length-of-stay patients and those expected to be in hospice for a shorter time.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

The forthcoming end of the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstrative takes effect Dec. Launched in 2021, the carve-in was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, as well as coverage of palliative and transitional care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Clinicians have also used virtual visits to assess medication or care plans in real time. Rapid deployment of telemedicine during the PHE also has created “a new pathway” for bringing palliative and hospice care specialists to rural areas, according to authors of a recent report published in the JAMA Health Forum.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

A bill currently before Congress would extend through 2026 regulatory flexibilities related to telehealth, including the ability to recertify patients for hospice care. If enacted, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, would as of 2025 extend the flexibilities by two years.

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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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