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Hospice News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most pressing market forces and trends that will shape the space during 2025. It will just continue to be one of the most critically important things for 2025 and beyond. Bartness, St. Croix Hospice Regulation continues to be the largest variable for next year and beyond.
Enhabit anticipates a nice bump in patient census across both its home health and hospice service lines in 2025, positioning the company for stronger growth than experienced in the last year, according to President and CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer. Were in a better place going into 2025. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a nearly 2.9% cut for 2025 in physician payment rates used to reimburse palliative care care practitioners, among other professionals. To put it bluntly, Medicare plans to pay us less while costs go up. Industry organizations were quick to denounce the pay cut. “To
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payment increase for hospices is insufficient in today’s economic climate, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) indicated in comments on the 2025 proposed payment rule. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in March issued its 2025 proposed hospice rule, which if finalized would include a 2.6%
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Bill is an icon in the industry and a staunch Medicare beneficiary advocate, always putting patients first and fighting for their rights and benefits. He was instrumental in the development of the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS), which emerged in home health reimbursement in 2000.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services value-based insurance design (VBID) model. Launched in 2017 by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the VBID demonstration tested new approaches to reimbursement across a variety of health care settings.
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million of VITAS revenue in the first quarter of 2025. increase in days-of-care and a geographically weighted average Medicare reimbursement rate increase of approximately 3.2%. The primary Medicare cap management strategy is to increase hospital-based admissions in select locations, Westfall said in the earnings call.
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More founders who began their organizations when the Medicare Hospice Benefit was established in the 1980s are reaching retirement. If you’re looking to buy or thinking about growing, now is probably a good time, because the conditions will be more fitful toward sellers coming into 2025 and then 2026,” Kulik said.
to a strong quarter for its hospice segment in early 2025. Enhabit opened one new location so far in 2025, with 13 more in the works, Jacobsmeyer said. Average daily census growth propelled Enhabit Inc. With shortfalls in its home health business, hospice is a prime growth driver for Enhabit. The companys hospice ADC rose 12.3%
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