Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. He cited a goal to work with Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage programs in varied ways that improve health outcomes for beneficiaries. HHS subagencies include the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, among others.

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The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) is the system through which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services determines payment rates for services provided by physicians and other healthcare professionals. This year’s Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule was released last Friday (Nov.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Hospice of the Chesapeake has unfurled a new dementia care program aimed at providing improved emotional, educational and practical support for patients and their caregivers as their conditions progress. The new program provides patients and their caregivers with direct support from Hospice of the Chesapeake’s interdisciplinary care team.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

Congress has passed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act 2025 (FY2025) , which allowed for continuation of several public health, Medicare and Medicaid authorities and programs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) temporarily instituted waivers during the public health emergency.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a memo to accreditation bodies and state agencies advising surveyors to watch out for potential hospice fraud. The memo directs surveyors to refer issues to CMS if they suspect fraudulent activity. A patient-centered approach helps to avoid abuse.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

How can we really partner with them on the talking points to broach these goals-of-care conversations so they understand what is included through Medicare and Medicaid services while still being comfortable in their homes. We are also in the process of putting together a one-day caregiver retreat. That will be a huge advantage.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

He was so intrigued that he gathered a few volunteers and began Hospice of the Valley, which was largely a volunteer organization living off of a few grants here and there prior to when hospice Medicare reimbursement came around in the early 1980s. There was a lot of community involvement. That is the future.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Topping the list of trends to watch in the last year was rising demand among swelling aging populations with chronic conditions, many of which lack the caregiving and family support to manage their symptoms in the home. Rising demand and unmet patient and caregiver needs have driven Medicare to seek to offer better support to those families.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2025

Hospice utilization rates reached 26.34% among Medicare decedents in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. The study gauged the caregiver experiences of for-profit entities as reported in Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey data. This fell below the national average of 49.1%

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

Palliative care delivered via telehealth is effective at improving access to caregiver support. Potential reimbursement mechanisms are available to offset the costs to the health system for providing transitional palliative care to caregivers of patients recently hospitalized.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A moving target in palliative care delivery is whether or not these services should have a dedicated benefit in the Medicare system. Palliative care models vary widely, with some focusing on interdisciplinary pain and symptom management, and others on consults around goals of care, family caregiving support and social determinants of health.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been zeroing in on long lengths of stay as a potential red flag, one that could suggest a hospice admitted someone who was not truly eligible.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Unmet caregiver needs are a top issue to address in developing end-of-life care models encircling the Medicare landscape. Addressing unpaid caregiver needs [and] respite services, these are two very significant innovations that we’re testing. {It’s

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers to assist those who care for seriously ill loved ones. Supporting family caregivers is an urgent public health issue, exacerbated by the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Our philosophy is that palliative care as a whole should be kind of a blanket that goes over all of those things and helps coordinate the care that those patients need across all of those settings, no matter which specialists they’re seeing or which which Medicare defined service line they’re a part of, Walker told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

The nation’s health care system is lacking in support for caregivers of the terminally ill, who are often left with a heavy financial and logistical burden. Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or be unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“Aetna remains focused on providing benefits and services to help our members age in the place that is best for them – whether that is with caregivers or without, in a family home or in a senior living community,” Terri Swanson, president of Medicare for Aetna, told Hospice News in an email. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Without family caregivers, most hospice and palliative care patients would be unable to receive care in the home. Now, some emerging payment models are including caregiver support as a key component. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled in July 2023. In terms of caregiving support, not much has changed.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2025

White Medicare decedents represented 86% of individuals who utilized hospice in 2023, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. among Hispanic Medicare decedents in 2022, according to a report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, now part of the Alliance. in 2023, compared to 17.9% We need to get upstream.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Without family caregivers, many hospice patients would be unable to receive care in their homes. To help keep patients at home — the lowest-cost setting of care — the federal government recently unveiled a National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, which has more than two decade’s worth of advocacy behind it. .

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

That model aligns to a large degree with that used within the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment demonstration from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, according to study author and research scientist Dr. Greg Sachs with the Indiana University Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. The state of caregiving Many of the barriers are financial. The direct costs of caregiving are substantial, and they multiply as lost wages or missed work days get factored in.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

With increasing need for programs that aid caregivers, RUSH University Medical Center’s Caring for Caregivers (C4C) as an example of a hospital service that assists family members and friends who care for adults 60-years and older in their homes. population) who provide care for family members with chronic and serious conditions.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Weve got to support these caregivers, the patients and their families more effectively, but then theres a cost curve. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a State Plan Amendment (SPA). We need to educate and raise all boats to improve clinical capacity, Twaddle told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Avanlee Care has teamed up with Walmart (NYSE:WMT) to allow families in certain markets to order groceries, health or pharmacy products from the retail giant’s stores through its caregiver support mobile app. Christine said her drive to establish Avanlee grew out of her personal experience with caregiving.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Weve had some regulatory challenges because of caregivers in these other business lines not understanding the regulatory requirements, Campbell said. Regulatory obstacles can arise if the overall workforce does not grasp the full scope of compliance across different business lines, she said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2025

Caregivers and team members have a lot of choices out there as to where they work and who they work for. More and more patients are aging into Medicare benefits, and more and more patients are opting to age in place, which, for many folks, means their home. Second is listening to how we can make our caregivers time more efficient.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Staffing will continue to be a significant concern as will caregiver satisfaction, and I anticipate that the industry will turn to AI to battle these important issues. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] to design and implement effective reforms to address fraud and poor quality providers in the industry.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

These professionals are able to provide additional bedside services and better understand the challenges that patients and caregivers are facing. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) fueled a total of $1.4 Doulas can help foster collaborative, goal-concordant care as well as improve quality, according to some hospices.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2025

The hospice provider has a triage 24/7 call line for patients and caregivers to connect with clinical and social worker teams. Having a round-the-clock care approach comes with staffing and operational considerations, but also improved symptom management and caregiver satisfaction, Beckwith said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) during the public health emergency have been extended several times. The law allows for continuation of several public health, Medicare and Medicaid authorities and programs. Calls are growing louder to make permanent regulatory flexibilities for telehealth.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] and Congress. Were all pushing on this to make sure that the hospice benefit is protected for those at the heart of it, the patients, families, caregivers and clinicians. I served as a quarterback for Amedisys on any regulatory or legislative changes.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

The two organizations, which have partnered on projects related to critical care hospitals and Medicare beneficiaries, will choose five rural communities in the state with the goal of increasing their capacity to provide palliative care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

Though the future of telehealth regulations remains uncertain, this remote avenue of health services holds enormous potential, for palliative care providers to improve access while also alleviating caregiver burden, according to Moore. These include the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Only 10 new Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will offer home-based palliative care as a primarily health-related benefit for 2023, but payers may be offering those services through other programs. Among Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits, in-home support services and caregiver support saw the most year-over-year growth for 2023.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

These services have also been associated with reduced caregiver burden and better care coordination, particularly for patients in rural, remote and underserved communities, according to the research. It enhances communication, reduces the financial burden of travel and increases patient and caregiver satisfaction.

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