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CMS 2025 Proposed Rule Signals Changes to Quality Measurement, Omits Program Integrity Actions

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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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UnitedHealth Group Set for Further Acquisitions

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During the past two years, the insurance giant has completed a slew of acquisitions spanning much of the health care continuum — including hospice, palliative care and home health — as well as health care technology, largely through its subsidiary Optum. The data breach caused widespread disrupting in claims processing and other activities.

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Hospices Increasingly Invest in Environmental Sustainability

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Among these companies is Agrace Hospice & Supportive Care, which unveiled an initiative last October to become carbon neutral by 2025, according to President and CEO Lynne Sexten. Strategies evolve as an organization’s carbon neural effort matures,” Sexten told Hospice News in an email. “In

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Future Leaders: Tej Dhillon, Founder and CEO, Seva Hospice

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When I took the reins over the business, I had always wanted to get into hospice care from personal experiences. We know people who have gone through hospice care. So in 2019 I launched a hospice company, which became Seva Hospice. It’s turned me into a huge advocate for hospice.

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