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Headwaters Hospice to Launch New Palliative Care Services

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Montana-based Headwaters Hospice and Palliative Care LLC will soon unveil a new palliative care service line, set to launch later this year. Patients in rural, mountainous regions face some of the most significant struggles in terms of accessing and receiving end-of-life care, Brown stated.

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How to Diversify Services Within the Medicare Hospice Benefit

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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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Care Coordination, Quality Data Crucial to Hospice Referral Growth

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Care coordination and quality data will be engines for hospice referral growth. As end-of-life care received a spotlight during a global pandemic, the historical viewpoints around hospice care delivery have been undergoing a “fundamental shift,” Dresang said.

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Compassus, VNS Health Team Up to Manage End-of-Life Care for Medicare Advantage Payers

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Compassus and VNS Health have formed a value-based collaboration aimed at improving access, awareness and quality of hospice and palliative care services. The two home-based care organizations are joining forces in a Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model partnership.

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Hospices Have Long Road Ahead on Improving Health Equity

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End-of-life care models have increasingly diversified to reach a broader range of patients with different beliefs, values and spiritual outlooks, according to Altonia Garrett, COO of Blue Ridge Hospice. Additionally, hospices need stronger ties to referral sources for improved care coordination, Garrett said.

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‘Detrimental, Unnecessary Chaos’ Looms as Hospice Telehealth Waivers Expire

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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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CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

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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.