Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A lack of supportive policies, particularly around Medicaid coverage for palliative care, has also exacerbated hospice inequities, according to Garret. More robust advocacy is needed to ensure that hospice care is more accessible and equitable, she said.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

The coaching program provides caregivers with guidance on medication management, insurance navigation, transportation, advance care planning and care coordination. Patients do not need to be hospice eligible for caregivers to receive these services. Far too long we have seen last-minute referrals to hospice care.

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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.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Empath’s business lines include hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. The organization is the parent company of 17 affiliates and two philanthropic foundations.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

The agency intends for the 10-year demo to expand and enhance care management and care coordination. CMS plans to equip participating primary care clinicians with tools to form partnerships with specialists and to leverage community-based connections to address patients’ health and social needs.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses. Croix Hospice cares for more than 4,400 patients daily across its 10-state service region.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

This would allow ACOs with a history of generating savings to make greater investments in services, improving care coordination, hiring staff and building out health care infrastructure. 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

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit. In addition to concurrent care, LeadingAge urged Congress and the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

million primary care visits in 2016. A watchword for many value-based payment models is care coordination. By operating a home-based primary care program, hospices can gain an edge when it comes to coordinating services. This could include partnerships with hospice and palliative care clinicians.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

I think that we could work probably better with the payers to show not just the financial impact, but ultimately, the quality of care impact of keeping these prospective patients out of the hospital when they want to live life to the fullest.” Among those benefits is palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Hospice House of Williamsburg Temporarily Closes Virginia-based Hospice House of Williamsburg has temporarily shuttered its inpatient facility as it undergoes renovations. The nonprofit has provided hospice care to nearly 3,000 patients at the four-room center since its opening in 2002.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Several of these bills have rolled out this year from the Senate Comprehensive Care Caucus , which Rosen co-founded, including Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act , the Provider Training in Palliative Care Act and Improving Access to Transfusion Care for Hospice Patients Act.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

Though the model is focused on primary care, it could help more patients receive hospice and palliative care when appropriate, according to CMS. The PPCPs will also provide funds for care management, patient navigation, behavioral health integration and other care coordination services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Melissa Kozak, Founder and Head of CitusHealth, to talk abou t the most common deficiencies found in hospice plans of care, and how Citus is helping providers to address them. Hospice News: What are the most common deficiencies found in hospice plans of care?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Drake Jarman, senior vice president of growth of hospice at Amedisys Inc. Advocating for a comprehensive approach to hospice care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Over time, his health care career began to move in a new direction. Empath also offers hospice care through Suncoast Hospice, Empath Hospice, Hospice of Marion County and Suncoast Hospice of Hillsborough. Like Fleece, Tidewell, a former Stratum affiliate, came to Empath with the merger.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The increase in ACOs and other integrated care models can provide opportunities for organizations to reduce cost while providing high quality care.” Medical students often don’t receive exposure to palliative or hospice care throughout their education.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

While the Medicare benefit covers the vast majority of hospice care in the United States, other reimbursement models are emerging that in time could transform the ways providers do business, collaborate with their partners and deliver care. NYSE: CHEM).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Creating a directory of certified providers and services could help facilitate better care coordination and transitions of care, reduce some administrative tasks, and support interoperability throughout the health sector, CMS indicated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Caris Healthcare provides adult and pediatric hospice care to more than 40,000 patients and families across 28 locations in Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Additional services include palliative care, a veterans program and care coordination.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“Since our founding, Canyon Home Care & Hospice has had a long-standing commitment to driving innovation and increasing access to high-quality home health and hospice care,” Eddie Norris, managing partner at Canyon, said in the announcement.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Hospitalized patients with longer stays and uncontrolled pain and symptom management are also eligible to receive these inpatient palliative services, which include goals of care discussions, care coordination, pain and symptom management, as well as spiritual and emotional support, among others.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

When it comes to hospice VBID, numbers from the program’s first year offer few clues for the 2023-2024 landscape. About A total of 9,630 VBID beneficiaries received hospice care through the VBID demo in 2021, and 525 utilized the program’s supplemental benefits, according to a report from the RAND Corporation prepared for CMS.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

“When the [hopital] patient is discharged, thosewho have instructions to seek hospice are making up a greater percentage of that pool,” Bakkun told Hospice News. And that means that the the knowledge and awareness of hospice care is growing.”. This perspective is backed by other research.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

Colorado, Maryland and New York include palliative care as part of their health care facility licensing. Though services covered by these Medicaid programs vary from state to state, they often include interdisciplinary services, care coordination, case management, advance care planning and psychosocial care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

“The palliative care team at Partners In Care expanded to include a physician, nurse practitioner, registered nurse and chaplain, which rounded out the multidisciplinary team approach they could offer patients.” The two providers will use a central medical record platform to further improve care coordination.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Care coordinators and counselors are among the bereavement roles in shortest supply, Bishop stated. Some hospice providers have begun to diversify their bereavement services, casting a wider net for recruiting interdisciplinary professionals.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Though the model is focused on primary care, it could help more patients receive hospice and palliative care when appropriate, according to CMS. The PPCPs will also provide funds for care management, patient navigation, behavioral health integration and other care coordination services.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

We are excited Jonathan Blank accepted this position and are thrilled how he has demonstrated commitment to mission-focused leadership and building a strong care team.” Center for Hospice Care Taps Two New Directors Indiana-based Center for Hospice Care (CHC) recently tapped two new directors to head its patient services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Home-based care, including hospice, has become an increasingly attractive space for facility-based health care providers of all walks. Assisted living and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have been joining the mix, taking varied routes to growth into home-based hospice care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hospice providers can also anticipate movement towards health care system integration and care coordination. Recognition is growing among health care providers, payers and policymakers that the system’s history of building silos around individual care settings can drive up costs and adversely affect patient outcomes.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

California-based Legacy Health Endowment recently launched a program to improve care coordinations and seniors’ awareness around their community-based health care options, including hospice. Legacy’s Person-Centered Care program aims to help rural-dwelling seniors to age in place.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“As SCAN transitions to the new realities of health care delivery with its enhanced focus on vulnerable seniors, this is the ideal time to develop operations integrating high-quality hospice care with upstream palliative care to support our members during their entire care journey.”.

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2023

The collaboration with VNS Health is intended to boost access to end-of-life care for serious and terminally ill patients by improving care coordination and transitions, Holland indicated. Compassus’ role will largely involve providing community-based palliative and hospice support for patients in MA VBID health plans, he said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yesterday that it would bring to a close the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration, effective Dec. The right call “I applaud the decision to suspend the hospice component of VBID. So I think, yes, absolutely.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

On a personal note, I’ve witnessed my own family members—parents, grandparents, and in-laws—navigate home health care, manage chronic illnesses and eventually transition through hospice care. Another key aspect is care coordination and collaboration. In the latter, our services extend to about 800 clients.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

More health systems stepping into hospice can have positive effects when it comes to patient access and the ability to quickly process referrals, according to St. When other health care systems invest in services like hospice care, everyone benefits,” Huffstutler told Hospice News in an email. “It

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