Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Hospices nationwide have been diversifying their services to include palliative care, PACE, home-based primary care and a host of other business lines. However, some organizations have found success with disease-specific programs reimbursed through the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Also in 2024, The Connecticut Hospice Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Hospices are taking myriad pathways toward greater service diversification. Service diversification is more than a growing trend in the hospice space, according to Kirva Hospice CEO Cheryl Hamilton Fried. Thats disjointed care, and so we need a solution that allows people to move more smoothly through that process.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Hospices see improved quality and operational efficiency as their biggest return on technology investments in three key areas. Keeping pace with the evolving technology landscape can be pivotal for hospices sustainability as rising demand pressurizes workforces, Pathek indicated. AccentCare, Agape Care Group and St.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2024

Fragmented health care has significant ties to adverse outcomes in patients with chronic or serious illnesses. Palliative care providers’ ability to navigate the health care system, coordinate the delivery of care, interact regularly with patients, and facilitate communication between providers can reduce this fragmentation.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. Martha Twaddle, The Waud Family Medical Directorships palliative medicine and supportive care clinical professor of medicine at Northwestern Medicine.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Many hospices in 2025 are driving to expand in the senior housing and assisted living space. million licensed beds, according to the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL). Were looking at assisted living, senior living, that sort of thing, Ponder Stansel told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2025

Palliative care providers face a host of unique recruitment and retention challenges compared to others, with organizations employing diverse strategies to rise above the competition. Having staff with a deep knowledge about the emotional, spiritual, psychosocial and physical patient needs addressed in palliative care is crucial, she stated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The trend represents significant unmet needs that some say palliative care providers are well-positioned to fill. These are just some of the areas that palliative care teams could help to improve. Palliative care providers are really poised to help improve quality of life for both the recipient and their caregiver.

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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

MAY 20, 2025

It is based on a Hospice News discussion with Ganesh Sundar, Director at KanTime, and Scott Brown, President and CEO of MyDirectives. This discussion took place on April 10, 2025, during the Hospice ELEVATE Conference. Hospice News: With our next session, Leveraging AI and Other Digital Tools in Hospice and Palliative Care.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

Care coordination and quality data will be engines for hospice referral growth. Hospices saw census volumes drop during the COVID-19 public health emergency as facilities nationwide restricted access to patients amid mandated state closures.

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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.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

An increasingly diverse base of health care providers have taken an interest in the palliative care space, a trend that could be indicative of how strategic growth is taking shape in the field. As they build out their palliative care programs, many of these organizations are pursuing partnerships to foster coordination and growth.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Establishing consistent relationships with referral sources will not only fill palliative care’s business pipeline, but they also allow providers to develop better delivery models to meet the needs of their partners and patients.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Telehealth utilization for palliative care during the last decade has been associated with improved quality of life, patient satisfaction and symptom management. Researchers included palliative care professionals and educators at medical colleges and hospitals in India. The analysis comes at a time when current U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Interest has mounted in the palliative care arena, but building and sustaining these services requires stronger reimbursement and workforce resources. But insufficient payment pathways represent a large hurdle for palliative care’s growth potential, Kulik said. “If That makes palliative care’s outlook good.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Palliative approaches can help address gaps of care among patients with a diverse range of rare chronic and serious illnesses. Although uncommon, the severity of symptoms and increased mortality risks associated with rare diseases is fueling greater demand for more specialized health care professionals.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Palliative care has been one of the largest growing segments of the health care industry in the last decade despite challenges such as staffing shortages, reimbursement headaches and misconceptions regarding this type of care. million people need palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The payment model is designed to improve quality of life for dementia patients and their caregivers by addressing care coordination, behavioral health and functional needs. Also participating in the model are primary care operators that also offer palliative care. Many of those providers agree. million people.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Palliative care and hospice providers are enhancing their staff education programs in an effort to better ensure they have a sustainable workforce. More millennials are enter the health care workforce as more baby boomers retire. UnityPoint at Home offers hospice, palliative and other community-based services.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aetna, a subsidiary of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), is leveraging a series of new benefits that, coupled with existing palliative care programs and ongoing hospice payment demonstrations, promise to keep patients in their homes and out of facilities. Patients can access palliative care through a number of inroads.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new avenue of funding for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) with implications for palliative care providers. 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

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 24, 2023

The channels for palliative care payment may be widening as more state legislators recognize growing demand for these services and start to weave them into Medicaid reimbursement. Case in point, New Jersey legislators are currently mulling a bill that would create a community-based palliative care benefit within the state’s Medicaid program.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

One of the most significant challenges confronting children living with serious illness and their families is the heterogeneity of policies and programs across the country, said Allison Silvers, chief health care transformation officer at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws. The reasons for this run the gamut.

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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

MAY 19, 2023

Though revenue streams for palliative care are often shallow, these services can generate sustainable growth for providers who can play their cards right with payers. When it comes to palliative care, billing teams need to have a firm grasp on the different levels of codes to apply when submitting claims, she continued.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

The creation and subsequent partnership with Radiant Alliance will bring a hospice and palliative care company and senior living operator under the auspices of a payer. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare. We are the first to actually do it.”

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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

MAY 6, 2024

The oncology-focused value-based enabler Thyme Care has launched a virtual palliative care program, branded as Enhanced Supportive Care. New symptoms come up, new side effects,” Frydman told Hospice News. “I Cancer patients, like many other chronically ill individuals, often benefit from palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oncology nurses at cancer centers across the country are developing ways to improve palliative care referrals for seriously ill patients and families who could benefit from these services. A common thread woven through these referral strategies is expanding palliative care awareness among clinicians across the continuum.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The health care performance improvement company Stratis Health has developed a framework for expanding access to palliative care in rural communities. What are some of the unique needs of rural populations when it comes to palliative care? Hospice is often not available. There’s a variety.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Partners In Care has formed a strategic partnership with the primary and urgent care provider Summit Health aimed at increasing access to palliative care in Central Oregon. Beginning this July, Summit Health patients will have access to palliative care consultations and expanded services through the partnership. .

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