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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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SCAN Group Invests in Guaranteed’s ‘Inclusive’ Hospice Technology Services

Hospice News

Medicare Advantage organization SCAN Group has invested an undisclosed dollar amount in tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed. The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away.

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Enhabit CDO Jay Duty: Health Care Is Coming Home

Hospice News

At the end of the day, we need those really good caregivers in homes with patients. There’s got to be a market where those caregivers are available to practice. There are a lot of home health and hospice companies where the idea is just to get bigger and put more dots on the map. They’ve got to be there.

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Top Hospice Trends to Watch in 2025

Hospice News

Hospice leaders will need to keep their eyes on five key trends in the new year when it comes to compliance, business operations and finance. Hospice utilization reached 51.7% The number of hospice care days also saw increases, as did average length of stay and average number of patient visits per week.

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The Discussion: Speaking with Your Doctor about Hospice Care

Shining Light Hospice

In addition to your primary care doctor, you will also have a hospice doctor and a team of medical professionals employed by the hospice company. These include the following: Do you accept my insurance/ Medicaid / Medicare ? Will my coverage pay for all the costs associated with hospice care?

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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. Among the 1.6 Among the 1.6