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How to Diversify Services Within the Medicare Hospice Benefit

Hospice News

Even if you aren’t ready yet to step outside of the hospice box, diversification is possible within the hospice payment system. These types of programs have proliferated among hospice companies in recent years.

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VITAS Earns AHA Heart Failure Certification Across 56 Markets

Hospice News

The certification reflects a growing trend of hospices pursuing disease-specific certifications or programs as a way of diversifying their services within the Medicare Hospice Benefit. VITAS is the first national hospice company to earn the AHA certification, though some local and regional hospices have done so.

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Why Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Operators Invest in Home-Based Hospice Programs

Hospice News

“If you think about how they’ve taken on strains in their capacity, these post-acute services – home health and hospice – they can get patients out of very expensive settings,” Klementz told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 Conference.

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Key Trends That Will Shape the Hospice Industry in 2023

Hospice News

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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Top Hospice Trends to Watch in 2025

Hospice News

In human terms, this means that millions of terminally ill patients will receive compassionate, person-centered care at the end of their lives. The prior two years also saw some earnings stabilization among publicly traded companies. The model is designed to address care coordination, behavioral, medical and functional needs.

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