Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Growth in the number of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries will likely overtake that for traditional Medicare in 2025, according to new estimates from the U.S. The post MA Enrollment to Outstrip Traditional Medicare in 2025 appeared first on Hospice News. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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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

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. The post MedPAC to Congress: Freeze Hospice Rates in 2025 appeared first on Hospice News.

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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. But the potential confusion didn’t stop there.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Regulators recently extended certain temporary telemedicine waivers granted during the pandemic, with some flexibilities now sunsetting in 2025 rather than the end of this year. With the end of 2024 quickly approaching, DEA, jointly with HHS, has extended current telemedicine flexibilities through December 31, 2025.”

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

The company expects to develop similar partnerships in Ohio markets as well as two to three other states by early 2025, according to Weiland. Palliative care provider Tuesday Health has penned an agreement with the Medicare Advantage organization CareSource to offer services to its beneficiaries.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2024

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has approved its 2025 state budget that includes outlays to support palliative care services for children. The state’s budget included $14.7 million for maternal and child health, including $10.4 million for pediatric palliative care services for terminally ill children. Mariano (D-Quincy). million in 2021.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The agency’s 2025 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule contains a provision that would establish a new “prepaid shared savings” option for Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) participants. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced the new payment demonstration in March.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Value in Health Care Act would extend the 5% incentive into 2024 and 2025 — a move that could foster greater opportunities for palliative care providers working in alternative payment systems, according to David Pittman, director of communications and regulatory affairs at the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS).

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

Being selected as a participant in this program — set to start on July 1, 2025 — will allow us to continue to fulfill our mission.” Becca Gatian, who’s been with Avow Care Services over the last 12 years and its chief operating officer since 2023, agrees.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ value-based insurance design (VBID) model has largely been met with a sense of relief by providers as they plan new initiatives for palliative care in 2025. That problem was mirrored in the environment outside of the program.

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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). The role of a palliative care provider is crucial in this model.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

The two-and-a-half-year clinical trial is expected to launch in autumn 2025. Wide variation exists in the ways palliative care is delivered, but Penn Medicine is launching an extensive research project to determine best practices in the hospital setting. Halpern, the John M. million grant.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It will also narrow its 2025 exposure to part D risk and delay the onboarding of one class of 2025 position partner given local payer dynamics. Pursuing this long-term vision has required some tough near-term decisions to exit selected partnerships and narrow the footprint of health plans we will work with in 2025.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The website will also provide opportunities for the exchange of best practices and information, with the Alliance anticipating new developments expected to finalize in 2025. The organizations will continue the process of combining their operations through the remainder of 2024 and into 2025.

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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 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

MAY 31, 2024

The agency’s 2025 proposed hospice rule featured a series of requests for information (RFI) on issues like health equity, social determinants of health and future quality measures. Though such treatments are often considered to be “curative,” they can also provide palliation without changing the patient’s prognosis.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Connecticut legislators recently introduced a bill that aims to create a statewide pediatric hospice and palliative program. If enacted, the bill would require the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) to create a plan for the development of the program and establish general statutes around its implementation.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

In comments on the 2025 proposed hospice rule, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) voiced concerns that the agency’s regulatory impact assessment may not have taken all the details into account, including the need for staffing and technology investments. “In

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Commonly known as the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model officially launched on January 1, 2021, with 53 Medicare Advantage Plans offering the benefit in 206 counties within 13 states and Puerto Rico for 4 years ending in 2025. Can you walk us through that landscape?

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

CMS will not accept applications to the previously released CY 2025 Request for Applications for the Hospice Benefit Component of the VBID Model.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec.

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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. 1, 2026 at the earliest.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Landers’ appointment as inaugural CEO represents another step in the alliance’s integration process, which is expected to continue through the beginning of 2025. Landers during the last decade held executive leadership roles at Hebrew SeniorLife and Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group Inc.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Introduced in May, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, would as of 2025 extend the flexibilities by two years. A coalition of hospice, home health and palliative care organizations has called on Congress to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities implemented during the pandemic.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Currently in a discussion draft phase, the bill includes ways for hospice providers to have clearer definitions and improved payment for more intensive forms of palliation, such as radiation therapy, blood transfusions or dialysis, among others. Developed by U.S. It’s just very hard to sustain when you’re losing money on 80% of your patients.”

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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. In addition to the payment recommendation, MedPAC did not propose any cuts to the aggregate payment cap for 2025, as it has previously for several years running. increase to keep pace with inflation. “At

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The alliance is anticipated to take shape under a new name by January 2025, he indicated. The website’s launch is projected for the spring of 2025, according to the alliance’s Co-CEO Ben Marcantonio. NAHC was born in 1982 as a merger of five national associations, so it’s in our blood to do this,” said Dombi at the conference.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

1, 2025, could potentially lead patients away from quality providers and into the arms of bad actors in the space, according to Dr. Steven Landers, newly appointed CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home. The program, set to begin Jan.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Senate Appropriations Committee last week approved a bill that would create new funds for the program in Fiscal Year 2025. Currently in development stages, the first cohort of nurses is projected to begin in July 2025. A new hospice nursing recruitment effort has launched in the New England region after being stalled by the pandemic.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on its 2025 proposed hospice payment rule, stating that the agency’s anticipated 2.6% Federal regulators should increase scrutiny of private equity activity in the hospice space, according to the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The location is set to open in April 2025 and will feature six three-bedroom homes for terminally ill homeless individuals in need of food, clothing, shelter and end-of-life care. Branded as Joshua’s House, the funds were approved by local board officials in Sacramento County, California, and will support the site’s construction.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2024 home health rule, the SFP is set for 2025 implementation. 1, 2025, could potentially lead patients away from quality providers and into the arms of bad actors in the space, according to Dr. Steven Landers, newly appointed CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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JULY 23, 2024

increase in hospice per diems that CMS included in its 2025 proposed rule , Dombi said. NAHC and NHPCO have since recently affiliated , with a new organization name yet to be announced. Providers will need far more than the 2.6% The drafted Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act from U.S.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

The health system anticipates the location to remain closed until the end of 2025. Julia Hospice & Palliative Refuels De Novo Plans Pennsylvania-based Julia Hospice & Palliative (JHPC) has reignited plans to launch a de novo after experiencing pandemic-related setbacks. A new opening date has not yet been announced.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The post New C-Suite Executives Tapped to Lead Hospices in 2025 appeared first on Hospice News. National Alliance for Care at Home Announces New COO National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) recently announced Sherl Brand as its new COO, who will ascend into the role in January.

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MAY 23, 2024

Looking ahead to 2025, some of the key metrics that hospices, payers and referral partners need to watch are changing. As hospice and palliative care providers move further into value-based care, data is becoming paramount to building payer and referral partner relationships.

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