Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum. An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. The organization recently held a conference with the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2025

It is based on a discussion with Cara McCarty Abbott, Founder and CEO at Betterleave; Sara Nigro, Director of Partnerships at BetterRX; and Lloyd Wilson, CEO at Sonder Hospice & Palliative Care. We’re going to be talking about the unsung heroes of home-based care: the caregivers at home. Thats definitely a hidden cost.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The ability to monitor and educate staff on their roles and responsibilities in compliance will be a key for hospice sustainability and quality heading into 2024, Piland said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

But this is definitely still not the norm.”. In general, patients who have poor health literacy are less likely to enter hospice care, a study in the American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine found. Our health system doesn’t incentivize the type of care coordination that we might need.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. Obviously, palliative care fits in there.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! However, hospices, in many instances, had to accept lower reimbursement rates and delayed payment for the care they delivered.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

I say something like, Palliative care is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St. Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program.

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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. There’s no consistency.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

The nonprofit has supported Masons Law , a bill recently introduced in Iowa designed to establish regulatory guidelines for pediatric hospice and palliative care centers. If enacted, the legislation may have reverberating impacts on more equitable care delivery beyond just the states borders, she stated. million fundraising goal.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Now, catalysts are at work that could spur gradual movement towards system integration and care coordination. I think we’re going to see more interaction with larger health insurance systems and how they interact in the health care system, and that will definitely impact hospice. A more integrated system.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We have a pediatric specialty, and on the flip side, we have many, many of our patients are in the older adult population and we don’t really take into account some of the complexities of that care in the same way, and I really wanted to learn about hospice and palliative care and how to best guide patients. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. On today’s podcast, we talk about finding an evidence-based answer to this dosing question with three leaders in palliative care: Jennifer Temel , Chris Jones , and Pallavi Kumar.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Startups such as Empathy, Betterleave Bereavement Care, Grief Refuge and Help Texts (formerly Grief Coach) have launched platforms designed to help families cope and assist with tasks such as funeral planning, account cancellations, legalities and financial arrangements. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The good news is that the financial case for comprehensive dementia care is changing thanks to a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) alternative payment model (APM) called Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model. What if really good care costs more? Malaz: Yeah, social determinants of health.

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