Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The trend represents significant unmet needs that some say palliative care providers are well-positioned to fill. These are just some of the areas that palliative care teams could help to improve. Palliative care providers are really poised to help improve quality of life for both the recipient and their caregiver.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

of patients who were discharged from hospice in 2020 did so while they were still alive, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The post Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit appeared first on Hospice News. About 15.4%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider has seen a significant increase in demand for dementia care amid a growing population of seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions across its service region, which spans four counties in the state.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Hospices nationwide have been diversifying their services to include palliative care, PACE, home-based primary care and a host of other business lines. A growing number of operators have developed programs tailored to patients with specific diagnoses, providing specialized care tailored to their specific needs.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

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. The nation lacks a sufficient supply of palliative care professionals amid a swelling population of seriously ill patients, driving up demand.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

A complex web of state regulations and reimbursement systems can challenge pediatric palliative care access for seriously ill children and their families. Our health care system in the United States is really designed for adult illness care. He and his wife Holly Cottor are co-founders of Ryan House in Phoenix, Arizona.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

A large key for hospices to navigate is how quickly technology evolves, and the care delivery and operational challenges associated with that rapid pace, he stated. We are investing in AI-driven care coordination and predictive analytics to support personalized patient experiences and improve outcomes.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Establishing consistent relationships with referral sources will not only fill palliative care’s business pipeline, but they also allow providers to develop better delivery models to meet the needs of their partners and patients. It’s almost a requirement for these large health systems.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Palliative care has been one of the largest growing segments of the health care industry in the last decade despite challenges such as staffing shortages, reimbursement headaches and misconceptions regarding this type of care. million people need palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The payment model is designed to improve quality of life for dementia patients and their caregivers by addressing care coordination, behavioral health and functional needs. Also participating in the model are primary care operators that also offer palliative care. Many of those providers agree. million people.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

An increasingly diverse base of health care providers have taken an interest in the palliative care space, a trend that could be indicative of how strategic growth is taking shape in the field. We’re able to bring a focus on symptom management and care navigation to organizations not traditionally in the palliative care space.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

One of the most significant challenges confronting children living with serious illness and their families is the heterogeneity of policies and programs across the country, said Allison Silvers, chief health care transformation officer at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new avenue of funding for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) with implications for palliative care providers. This proposed policy dovetails with the Advance Investment Payment (AIP) component of CMS’ ACO Primary Care FLEX payment model demonstration.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

Bethany Snider of Pallitus Health Partners and Hosparus Health, the GUIDE model addresses something that was missing in dementia care both in the health care continuum and across the country: high quality, interdisciplinary palliative care which can be provided at home. “We

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In a fractious political environment, hospice and palliative care policy is one area in which members of both parties find common ground. Aside from building better career pathways for clinicians, another “big picture” focus for legislators is to develop a payment model dedicated to palliative care, Thompson stated.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Although uncommon, the severity of symptoms and increased mortality risks associated with rare diseases is fueling greater demand for more specialized health care professionals. Some gaps exist because they can’t access care without much needed specialists [nearby]. “For As a disease progresses, symptoms inevitably worsen.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oncology nurses at cancer centers across the country are developing ways to improve palliative care referrals for seriously ill patients and families who could benefit from these services. A common thread woven through these referral strategies is expanding palliative care awareness among clinicians across the continuum.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Temporary telehealth flexibilities granted during the pandemic have opened up discussions around the future of technology in health care delivery, said Dr. Michael Fratkin, board president at the Institute for Rural Psychedelic Care. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

The channels for palliative care payment may be widening as more state legislators recognize growing demand for these services and start to weave them into Medicaid reimbursement. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine and Oregon each have established Medicaid reimbursement for community-based palliative care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

Patients are more likely to create an advance care plan if they receive nurse-led palliative care services versus those who had standard care alone. About 45% of the palliative care patients said they had a goals-of-care conversation, compared to nearly 15% of the control group, the study found.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Though revenue streams for palliative care are often shallow, these services can generate sustainable growth for providers who can play their cards right with payers. When it comes to palliative care, billing teams need to have a firm grasp on the different levels of codes to apply when submitting claims, she continued.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Lower health literacy levels can prevent individuals from understanding their options for end-of-life care and the resources available to them, she stated. A lack of supportive policies, particularly around Medicaid coverage for palliative care, has also exacerbated hospice inequities, according to Garret.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Florida-based Community Hospice & Palliative Care recently opened a new location in its home state that will serve as an office for interdisciplinary staff and a community center. Photo courtesy of Community Hospice & Palliative Care. Also, much of our growth in palliative has been in community-based care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Two barriers interfere with palliative care growth — identifying patients in need and a fragmented reimbursement system, according to Laura Templeton, COO and executive vice president at Compassus. As a nurse, Templeton has leveraged her clinical experiences to help navigate challenges that prevent patients from accessing care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

is launching a pediatric palliative care professional training program at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center (OUHSC). Founded roughly 40 years ago, the Children’s Health Foundation is the fundraising arm of the University of Oklahoma’s pediatric palliative care team and associated researchers.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws. The reasons for this run the gamut.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aetna, a subsidiary of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), is leveraging a series of new benefits that, coupled with existing palliative care programs and ongoing hospice payment demonstrations, promise to keep patients in their homes and out of facilities. Patients can access palliative care through a number of inroads.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2023

A new cancer-focused payment model demonstration from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) could create opportunities for palliative care providers. And they also are required to have care partners that can meet holistic needs. That’s another CMMI program that has an obvious palliative care tie-in.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The health care performance improvement company Stratis Health has developed a framework for expanding access to palliative care in rural communities. What are some of the unique needs of rural populations when it comes to palliative care? So advanced care planning is one. There’s a variety.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Partners In Care has formed a strategic partnership with the primary and urgent care provider Summit Health aimed at increasing access to palliative care in Central Oregon. Beginning this July, Summit Health patients will have access to palliative care consultations and expanded services through the partnership. .

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Palliative care and hospice providers are enhancing their staff education programs in an effort to better ensure they have a sustainable workforce. More millennials are enter the health care workforce as more baby boomers retire. Care Dimensions is also leveraging educational initiatives in their recruitment and staffing plansf.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

An international collaboration has led to the development of a new palliative care training tool aimed at improving quality and equitable access. Health systems across the globe are recognizing a growing need to boost the supply of providers able to care for a swelling, aging population of serious and terminally ill patients.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

The Delaware Valley Accountable Care Organization (ACO) has leveraged a comprehensive, community-based palliative care program developed by its partner Main Line Health to reduce costs of care by $9,000 per eligible patient. The key to this was the anticipated reductions in the total cost of care.

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