Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Over time, Medicare Advantage plans will likely have a greater presence as hospice payers, and now is the time for providers to build relationships those organizations. 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.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Telehealth is an effective means of conducting these administrative visits without increasing Medicare costs,” the coalition stated in its letter to Congress. Congress is currently mulling legislation that could extend current telehealth regulations through 2026. The bill has since stalled on the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The company’s de novo strategy includes plans to open 10 new PACE centers by 2026, with three locations planned in Ohio. Hospice utilization rates reached 51.81% among Medicare decedents during 2022, which was above the national average of 49.1% Demographic trends are fueling BoldAge’s strategic growth. Census Bureau reported.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included the updates in its proposed hospice payment rule for 2025. 1, 2026 at the earliest. 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.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

State of telepalliative regulations Congress currently is weighing a bill, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act , that proposes to extend the expiration of regulatory flexibilities tied to telehealth through 2026. Currently set to sunset Dec.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2024

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.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Further, the bill would create a short-term home respite level of care for when respite care is provided for at least eight hours during a 24-hour period for no more than five days during an election period, effective on or after October 1, 2026. These care days would would also count toward the hospice’s payment cap.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Palliative services that address patients social needs, manage their pain and symptoms and provide caregiver support have increasingly become critical aspects of value-based payment demonstrations coming out of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), she said. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in June released its proposed home health reimbursement rule for 2023, which included a 7.69% reduction in the base payment rate. Senate that would prevent CMS from reducing home health rates before 2026. Through these cuts, the agency seeks to reconcile a total of nearly $2.02

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

Legislators have recently introduced a bill , the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital and Ambulance Access Act, which proposes to extend the flexibilities through 2026. million of “high risk” telehealth Medicare fee-for-service billing claims during the first year of the pandemic alone. We have to get ready either way.”

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NHPCO

APRIL 28, 2023

For Immediate Release April 28, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – Earlier this month, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) published details on the extension of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model that may have significant implications for hospice care going forward.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 19, 2023

On April 4, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a proposed rule, updating the 2024 Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Report Program, impacting short-stay discharge surveys. Join Chris Magleby and Kristen Duell as they break down Pinnacle Quality Insight’s CMS-approved CoreQ surveys and what you need to know to prepare.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

That its global market is projected to top $56 billion by 2026 speaks to this underserved need that is an intimate part of any agency’s ability to service the full home health landscape. The demand for pediatric home health care – perhaps the most sensitive, challenging type of service for agencies to offer – is escalating.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The nations hospice utilization rate among Medicare decedents has once again surpassed 50%, for the first time since the pandemic. in 2023, up more than two percentage points from the prior year, according to recent data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Total Medicare hospice payments in 2023 reached $25.7

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2022

I, I think as the continuum moves towards value-based purchasing, and we know that CMS is extremely invested in this, I I think the last info I read was that the CMS trust fund was due to run out in like something like 2026 and that far away, right? But I always feel like hospice has been the caboose on the Medicare train.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

More Medicare Advantage organizations are developing customized plans for patients with special needs, including for those who may need palliative care or are nearing the end of life. The move preempts new policies by the Biden Administration that do not take effect until 2026.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually, as well as face-to-face recertification visits. A bill recently introduced to Congress proposed to extend these telehealth flexibilities until 2026. During the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 14, 2022

In support of these goals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), acting under the direction of the Department of Health and Human Services, issued a proposed rule in the federal register in April titled Fiscal Year 2023 Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule).

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Act includes provisions targeting Medicare prescription drug costs, which could have wide-ranging effects for any party involved in the pharmaceutical industry, including drug developers, researchers, manufacturers, distributors, insurance companies, pharmacy associations and consumers. Small Biotech” drugs are also excluded until 2029.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation is currently testing coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage through the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) program. Often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the program is more than halfway through its second year. The path forward is value-based care.”.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to increase payments to Medicare Advantage plans for 4.3% in 2026, but implementation will depend on what happens with the new presidential administration. billion in additional payments in 2026 that the agency has called not necessary to support stability in the program.

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