Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2025

Peeling back problematic barriers Caucasians and individuals in urban areas have historically been the largest patient populations to access hospice care. White Medicare decedents represented 86% of individuals who utilized hospice in 2023, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. in 2023, compared to 17.9%

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2025

In 2022, senile degeneration of the brain was the most frequently occurring diagnosis among Medicare decedents who elected the hospice benefit. Alzheimers with late onset was the fourth most common diagnosis, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. This was followed closely by Alzheimers Disease.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The association has since completed its affiliation with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), forming the newly named National Alliance for Care at Home (NACH). The diversity and wide breadth of services can be beneficial to patient-centered care, she said. That may change in the near future.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2025

The move is aimed at increasing access to patients and family caregivers who currently lack sufficient resources in the states north central region, according to VITAS Healthcare Chairman and CEO Nick Westfall. VITAS is the second-largest hospice provider nationwide by Medicare claims, according to Hospice News Top 50 provider report.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Leading concerns in the industry include the bill’s suggested regulatory reforms to address program integrity in the hospice industry, along with potential changes to reimbursement, caregiver support and palliative care payment pathways. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) introduced the Hospice CARE Act last month. this summer.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

He previously served as president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) for 38 years prior to its affiliation with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) in 2023 and was heavily involved in the establishment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The new location will allow for expanded access to end-of-life care and caregiver support, according to Robert Watson, who will serve as its new executive director. We also support their caregivers with guidance and encouragement, to help make the time together as peaceful as possible.” Seniors 65 and older represent 17.7%

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

Capital Caring offers palliative services through its Primary Care at Home program. Most of these services are reimbursed by private insurance coverage or through Medicare or Medicaid payment avenues, Cone stated. And also that it’s a service available to those that have no insurance.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Current reimbursement structures within the federally established Medicare Hospice Benefit do not sufficiently support the level of care needed in rural-based communities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). “We House of Representatives’ Ways and MeansCommittee.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

Anna Loengard to discuss the ways the company has evolved since the merger, including clinical innovation, new approaches to hospice general inpatient care and its growing acute-care-at-home business. You do the best thing for the patient, but then the family may not be quite ready to transition back home.

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NHPCO

AUGUST 26, 2024

Landers brings almost two decades of experience as a physician, executive leader and health policy advocate to The Alliance, which represents care at home and community providers across the country. Dr. Landers has dedicated his career to seeking home- and community-based health care solutions for people of all ages.

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Traditions Health

AUGUST 7, 2023

Who pays for home health? Medicare, Medicare Advantage, VA, and most private insurance plans cover eligible home health services. For example, Medicare requires that health care providers certify you meet specific “homebound” conditions to be eligible for home health services. How do you get started?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

My clinical experiences have been foundational to my growth, but my aging health policy experience with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and my time with The California Endowment were equally important. Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 17, 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , for instance, announced a new strategy to add flexibility to the U.S. heal th-care system outside traditional hospital settings. C linics can learn best practices from providers such as O ption Care Health.)

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Traditions Health

OCTOBER 13, 2024

To get hospice care, you must stop breast cancer treatment. Medicare, Medicaid, and most insurance plans cover hospice care, but you should check with your insurance provider to make sure. Most people choose to get hospice care at home. In most cases, your primary caregiver is a family member or friend.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

among Medicare decedents in 2023, up more than two percentage points from the prior year, according to recent data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). The number of hospice care days also saw increases, as did average length of stay and average number of patient visits per week.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

Invest in Solutions that Simplify the Experience for Care Staff and Clients. Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Paying your care staff more won’t keep them around longer. Here’s how.

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Traditions Health

MARCH 18, 2024

Factors that affect hospital readmission More at risk for readmission when there are so many new considerations around their care at home, it’s important we rally around newly discharged patients to better prepare them—and to help them—in their first several weeks back at home. The initiative begins at the time of referral.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The telemedicine extension reflects a growing recognition of the critical role telehealth plays in ensuring timely access to care, particularly in the hospice setting, said Madison Summers, public affairs professional at the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance). It also includes some exceptions.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. A s a health care leader, I know you regularly find yourself navigating treacherous terrain: regulatory updates. . How does this change help me? What is new?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its] thinking of how the next generation of employees, family caregivers and volunteers receive and process information. was essential to the establishment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit in 1983. The report was a joint effort from the National Alliance for Care at Home and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We are an in-home care company. We provide personal care, skilled home health, palliative care, hospice care, and behavioral health. We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. I have provided home and community-based services for 35 years.

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NHPCO

JULY 28, 2023

For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. billion in Medicare savings in 2019, while also providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. With hospice, you can provide that care at home.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“A reliance on virtual health care can exacerbate inequities for Asian Americans if attention is not paid to ensuring language access, improving cultural competency amongst providers and supporting patients and caregivers in gaining greater digital literacy,” Tsze told Hospice News in an email. “It This is compared to 51.6%

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NHPCO

MARCH 21, 2023

For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 billion in savings for Medicare in 2019, while providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. Hospice stays of six months or more result in savings for Medicare.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

NHPCO is currently integrating into the Alliance, a newly-formed national organization that is combining the two leading organizations supporting the care-at-home community – NHPCO and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Of all Medicare decedents in CY 2022, 49.1% With 49.1%

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

President and the first known President to utilize the Medicare Hospice Benefit. While in office, the Carter administration tested hospice care as a model, which later led to the Medicare Hospice Benefit we know today. At 99, former President Jimmy Carter is the longest living U.S.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 28, 2022

Hospice care is designed to provide comfort and support to patients and their families during the end-of-life process. It is important to remember that hospice care is not just for the patient; it is also for the family and caregivers. The focus of hospice care is on quality of life, rather than quantity of life.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Rural-based caregivers have increasingly faced tremendous burdens as a result of hospices sustainability challenges, according to Dr. Steve Landers, CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance). Ensuring access to high-quality hospice and home care in rural communities is critical, Landers said in a statement.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

, what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Among the crucial issues that the incoming administration will likely need to address are the program integrity concerns that have been heating up , according to Dr. Steve Landers, CEO at the National Alliance for Care at Home. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented through its 2024 home health rule.

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