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Aveanna ‘Bullish’ on Hospice, Home Health Growth Despite 2024 Shortfall

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Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (Nasdaq: AVAH) is putting home health and hospice at the forefront of its growth sights in 2025 through a mix of strategic approaches. Think of us as being a tuck-in oriented acquirer in 2025 and 2026 Shaner said during Thursdays earnings call.

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Coalition ‘Strongly Urges’ Congress to Immortalize Hospice Telehealth Flexibilities

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Signatories also included the Alliance, LeadingAge, the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), the National Coalition for Hospice & Palliative Care, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and chaplain and nursing associations, among others. The bill has since stalled on the U.S.

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Hospice Groups to CMS: Don’t Rush CAHPS Changes

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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. 1, 2026 at the earliest. If finalized as written, the changes would take effect in January 2025.

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Hospice Executives Retire as New Leaders Rise

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Addus president, COO retires Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) President and COO Brad Bickham recently announced his retirement, effective March 2026. Limes previously served as vice president of business development and community relations at BridgePoint Healthcare.

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With Telehealth’s Uncertain Future, Hospices Must Be ‘Flexible’

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Hospices have leveraged telehealth to a greater extent in recent years, with some seeing a range of benefits for employees, patients and their families, according to Patrick Hale, executive vice president and chief information officer at VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHEM). Currently set to expire Dec.

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How the Hospice CARE Act Could Change Respite Services

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The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) voiced support for this change, though it also called for updated payment rates that would enable providers to sustain these services. These care days would would also count toward the hospice’s payment cap. It would also require the U.S.

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Payers to Hospices: Don’t Wait to Start Working with MA Plans

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I feel also signals that they’re probably not going to roll out mandatory [participation] as they were expecting to, we’ve heard, in 2026, potentially.” SCAN is a $4.3 billion nonprofit Medicare Advantage (MA) organization that covers more than 285,000 members across California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas.

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