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

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

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Additionally, mistrust and varying religious and spiritual values are among the leading barriers to greater hospice utilization, according to a recent study analysis published in the American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine. Education is another pivotal factor in health disparities, Garrett added.

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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

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

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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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. “We

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Compassus on Wednesday completed its partnership with the health system OhioHealth, a move aimed at improving care coordination and access. Through the deal, Compassus acquired ownership interest in three of OhioHealth’s hospice locations and four of its home health locations.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

During the program’s first year in 2021, 9,630 MA beneficiaries received hospice care through the VBID demo, and 525 utilized the program’s supplemental benefits, according to a report the RAND Corporation prepared for CMS. Among those benefits is palliative care.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Palliative care plays a significant role in improving the quality of life for individuals managing serious illnesses. It can be easy to confuse palliative and hospice care, but one difference between them is that your loved one can receive palliative care at any stage of an illness.

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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. Palliative care and hospice share some common goals with hospice.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

Texas-based Midland Health recently opened a new inpatient palliative care center aimed at improving access and quality outcomes among seriously ill patients and their families. Dubbed the Center for Serious Illness and Supportive Care, the facility will be based at the health system’s Midland Memorial Hospital.

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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

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 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. A late referral often means that the patient will not receive the full benefits of hospice care. This tracks with available data.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The ability to monitor and educate staff on their roles and responsibilities in compliance will be a key for hospice sustainability and quality heading into 2024, Piland said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

The hospice world is constantly changing,” Bigiarelli said. Palliative care will be expanded. Hospice of the Panhandle has provided end-of-life services in West Virginia for more than 40 years, and also offers palliative care and pediatric hospice and palliative care. The bottom line is to help more people.

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2023

Compassus and VNS Health have formed a value-based collaboration aimed at improving access, awareness and quality of hospice and palliative care services. The two home-based care organizations are joining forces in a Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model partnership.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Empath provides 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. Over time, his health care career began to move in a new direction.

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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. s service line.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

This article is based on a Palliative Care News discussion with Deanna Heath, Senior Vice President of customer experience at KanTime, Jared King, Vice President of business development and sales at Hospice Dynamix and Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime. Can palliative care function without numerous systems?

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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. Its hospice utilization rate reached 60.5%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“The hospice carve-in makes enrolling in hospice an expansion of a member’s care experience by enabling our members to continue engaging with their primary care team with transitional concurrent care while benefiting from the additional supportive services that hospice provides.”.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Signatories on the joint letter included LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). A drive towards system integration.

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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

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

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

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

MARCH 10, 2023

Most recently the hospice opened a de novo in Wisconsin, its 14th location in that state. “We Croix Hospice continues to grow in response to the need for expert hospice care throughout the Midwest,” Bartness said in a statement. We are pleased to be expanding the expertise on our leadership team as St.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2021, Wisconsin-based Aspirus Health System expanded with hospice and palliative care programs in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. That same year EmpRes Healthcare subsidiary Eden Health began offering hospice and palliative care in Idaho Falls. Home health and hospice are critical to the continuum of care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The possibility exists that hospice care will change more in the next few years than it has during the previous four decades. The Medicare Hospice Benefit turned 40-years-old in 2022, and in that time the program has remained fundamentally unchanged. Much of the debate has centered around regulation.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. Obviously, palliative care fits in there.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] believes that primary care is going to be the answer to this fragmented care problem. Primary care is where it’s at.” Alivia Care came into existence in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services.

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