Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Revocations of the hospice benefit can have serious adverse effects on patients and families, as well as providers. Live discharges can occur for a number of reasons, including the patient or family changing their minds about receiving hospice care, or the patient improves and no longer needs those services. About 15.4%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2024

This type of coordination can improve outcomes , decrease costs, and offer patients a better quality of life. Navigating system challenging for patients Critiques of current care coordination often focus on the disjointed experiences patients have when dealing with multiple providers, specialists and other services.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Prolific health disparities have driven hospices to implement various strategies to improve diversity, equity and inclusion among underserved patient populations. Garrett is also executive director of the Virginia-based hospice’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee. Hospice utilization rates rose by 4.1%

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Care coordination between providers: Thyme Care coordinates with a members oncologist, primary care physician and other specialists to ensure everyone has the right information at the right time to make informed care decisions.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Pennant Group has been quietly building palliative care programs driven by its local leaders with support from the corporate offices Service Center. Pennant is the holding company for a group of independent hospice, home health and senior living providers located across 13 states.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Those services cost saving potential has gained palliative care providers traction in hospitals, health systems and primary care settings. More research has also tied these services to improved outcomes among patients and families and better care coordination.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. The hospice component of VBID, also called the MA carve-in, launched in 2021 and was originally slated to complete after four years. It makes sense.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

These efforts come at a time when telehealth utilization is making waves in hospice staff and patient engagement, as well as operational efficiency and care coordination. Hospices will need to be nimble as the future of telehealth unfolds in health care, he said. Currently set to expire Dec.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

The home health and hospice provider New Day Healthcare has acquired Texas-based Compassion Hospice for an undisclosed amount. The company’s nearly 6,500 employees serve close to 100,000 patients annually across all of its business lines, including home health, hospice, pediatrics, clinical decision support and personal care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to extend the value-based insurance design (VBID) model through 2030: patients’ social needs, health equity and improved care coordination. This includes the hospice benefit component, often called the Medicare Advantage carve-in, CMS confirmed.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The unknowns of potential for changes in telehealth regulations are among the leading concerns among palliative care providers, according to Shelby Moore, CEO, Heartlinks. The Washington-based organization provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, grief support and senior living services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Julia Hospice & Palliative Refuels De Novo Plans Pennsylvania-based Julia Hospice & Palliative (JHPC) has reignited plans to launch a de novo after experiencing pandemic-related setbacks. Dubbed Julia House, the facility will provide inpatient hospice and serve as an outpatient palliative care clinic.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Cameron Muir has been named as the new CMO of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). His new title signals the organization’s strategic plans to reshape hospice care delivery through patient-centered, innovative approaches, according to NPHI CEO Tom Koutsoumpas.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The California-based hospice provider YoloCares is adding an Enhanced Care Management (ECM) program to its portfolio of services, which aims to address patients’ social determinants of health and related needs. YoloCares CEO Craig Dresang told Hospice News. “A Do they need meal assistance? How is their housing situation?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Finding the right balance of support and career development for bereavement care professionals is key to recruitment and retention as hospices combat labor strains. Grief care specialists take on challenging roles as they help families navigate the financial and emotional aspects of a loved one’s loss.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Bristol Hospice has opened four new locations within a single week in three different states. Bristol Hospice, which is backed by the private equity firm Webster Equity Partners, employs more than 3,000 staff in close to 80 locations across 18 states. The remaining two are in Bangor, Maine, and Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Hospice and palliative care provider VIA Health has long invested in disease-specific programs. The certification process takes into account six domains: program management, personnel education, patient and caregiver education, care coordination, clinical management and performance improvement. Close to 6.7

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Connecticut Hospice Inc. Dubbed as Magnolia Care, the decision to launch these new services was in part driven by rising demand as more seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia reach life’s final stages, according to the hospice provider. Growing demand is among the factors driving hospices’ investment.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Being that full-service solution requires the incorporation of a lot of different kinds of care along the continuum, including longitudinal home-based primary care. About 12% of the 2.1

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) payment model will launch on Jan. 1, 2023, and hospices that collaborate with participating ACOs could realize some unique benefits. If effectively structured, these arrangements can bring hospices a number of advantages. Though the U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

The HAP Foundation is partnering with the Child Life Hospice and Palliative Network (CLHPN) to improve awareness of and access to child life services among seriously ill youths and their families. The HAP Foundation helps support research and education in hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Greater transparency in staff evaluation processes and increased education will be keys to navigating a range of hospice compliance challenges in a post-pandemic landscape. Additional services include palliative care, a veterans program and care coordination. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Some federal legislators are working to address workforce issues in the hospice space, as well as bolstering support for family caregivers. In a fractious political environment, hospice and palliative care policy is one area in which members of both parties find common ground. Earl Blumenhauer (D-Ore.)

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For instance, transplant teams could receive cross-training in palliative care principles, while palliative care teams could benefit from greater education around the complexities that organ transplant patients experience. Those are big questions that caregivers are grappling with where I could see palliative care supporting.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Arkansas-based Hospice of the Ozarks has launched a non-medical care training program to improve caregiving support. The hospice’s new Care Coaching program is being offered at no cost to family caregivers. Providing care coaching could ultimately result in improved goal-concordant outcomes, he stated.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Most hospices are sliding into 2023 between a rock and a hard place, beset by headwinds, labor shortages and questions with no easy answers. Government oversight of hospice providers will tighten during 2023. Hospices have faced ever-intensifying scrutiny from regulators in recent years. Be ready for regulation.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

A new primary care-focused payment model demonstration could create new partnership opportunities for hospice and palliative care providers. The agency intends for the 10-year demo to expand and enhance care management and care coordination.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Utah-based Canyon Home Health & Hospice recently acquired Uintah Home Health and Hospice for an undisclosed amount, growing its footprint in the Beehive State state. Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. Its hospice utilization rate reached 60.5%

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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. Established in 1979, the nonprofit is an affiliate of Alivia Care Inc.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Croix Hospice recently unveiled data showing how the company leveraged predictive analytics technology to improve quality outcomes. In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. Croix Hospice. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The move marks an important milestone in the hospice providers push to expand its Midwest footprint. Agrace provides hospice, palliative and supportive care across 19 counties in Wisconsin. The hospice provider has unveiled a new office in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb in the predominantly urban Milwaukee County area.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Nationwide, existing support and services are often scarce or insufficient to meet families’ needs, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The financial, emotional, and logistical burdens on caregivers is heavy and can impede access to hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Over time, Medicare Advantage plans will likely have a greater presence as hospice payers, and now is the time for providers to build relationships those organizations. Originally slated to end in 2024, CMS recently extended the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) to 2023. million beneficiaries.

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