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How to Diversify Services Within the Medicare Hospice Benefit

Hospice News

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.

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Humana, Thyme Care Partnership to Expand Access to Palliative Care

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NYSE: HUM) and Thyme Care promises to expand access to palliative care among the oncology care companys patient population. The value-based agreement contracts Thyme Care with Humana Medicare Advantage plans, giving them access to their beneficiaries. A new partnership between Humana Inc.

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Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice

Hospice News

The Pennant Group has been quietly building palliative care programs driven by its local leaders with support from the corporate offices Service Center. We take a local-model approach where teams can build out what their palliative programs look like, and then we surround them with Service Center support, Steik told Palliative Care News.

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2024’s Most Read Palliative Care News Stories

Hospice News

Access was the watchword in the palliative care community during 2024, as providers sought more ways to reach the right patients at the right time. The following are the most-read Palliative Care News articles of 2024. Substances in this realm include cannabis, ketamine, MDMA and psychedelics such as psilocybin and LSD, among others.

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Palliative Care’s Most Disruptive Forces in 2025

Hospice News

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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How Palliative Care Providers Can Enhance Care Coordination

Hospice News

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 of the Chesapeake Launches New Dementia Program Amid ‘Urgent, Significant’ Need

Hospice News

The Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider has seen a significant increase in demand for dementia care amid a growing population of seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions across its service region, which spans four counties in the state. Participation in the GUIDE model has grown since its inception.

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