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Palliative Care’s Most Disruptive Forces in 2025

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Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. Martha Twaddle, The Waud Family Medical Directorships palliative medicine and supportive care clinical professor of medicine at Northwestern Medicine.

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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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Federal Funds Reignite Hospice Nurse Recruitment Initiative

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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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Voices: Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services, KanTime

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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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Managing the Hospice Payment Cap by Balancing Length of Stay

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In 2025, this will rise to $34,465. Salinas made these remarks during a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference. The cap is designed to prevent overuse of hospice, put controls on Medicare spending and foster greater access to care among patients.

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Research Finds Quality Benefits of Early Telepalliative Access Among Lung Cancer Patients

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The findings were presented at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting and first reported in the American Journal of Managed Care. Introduced in May, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, would as of 2025 extend the flexibilities by two years. Currently set to expire Dec.

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Leveraging Sales Strategies in Hospice Payment Cap Management

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In 2025, this will rise to $34,465. That really can help to swing the pendulum,” Andrews said in the presentation. “So The cap is designed to prevent overuse of hospice, put controls on Medicare spending and foster greater access to care among patients. For Fiscal Year 2024, the U.S.

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