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AGG, New Day’s Bill Dombi: Hospices’ ‘Vibrant Evolutionary Path’ Spurs Legal Growing Pains 

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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. The third thing is management.

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The Hospice CARE Act’s Potential to ‘Dramatically Reshape’ End-of-Life Care Delivery

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Transforming hospice policy The Medicare Hospice Benefit has remained largely unchanged since its establishment in 1983. Nearly half (49.1%) of all Medicare descendants utilized hospice services in 2022, which was a similar rate to prior years, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. this summer.

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AccentCare CMO Loengard: Palliative Care a ‘Huge Opportunity’

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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. Can you update me on the progress of AccentCare’s Hospital-at-Home program?

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Asian-American Communities Face ‘Digital Divide’ in Health Equity, Hospice Care

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Coupled with the telehealth disparities are inequities pertaining to hospice care. About 38% of a total 50,400 Asian American Medicare decedents elected the hospice benefit in 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. This is compared to 51.6% of more than 2.1

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The Rise of Hospital at Home

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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. Importantly, the new hospital-at-home care program sets it up to be realistically successful, as some of the conditions in this FAQ document reveal.

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Palliative Care Panel: A Discussion with Axxess

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If you think about that in terms of the elderly population and the population that’s up and coming, with the disability, chronic illness, and serious illness that affects them, there’s definitely going to be a huge need for palliative care. We have 10,000 Americans becoming Medicare-eligible per day.

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Top Hospice Trends to Watch in 2025

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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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