Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2025

We definitely need more equitable access to telehealth, and for that reason [its about] how we support the advocacy and regulation perspective, Pathak told Hospice News at the ELEVATE conference. Current flexibilities have only scratched the surface of possibilities around virtual care in tandem with in-person services, Pathak said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Lets get the get the pediatric palliative care center license seeded into the federal Social Security Act, because no common definitions exist at the federal level. We need to start engaging at the highest levels of policy groups to really try and bring light to these families’ challenges.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

I think it is definitely something we should be offering by way of palliative, whole life, whole patient-centred care, she said. I see a lot of patients who have already done a lot of their own research or family, friends or radios or TVs and heard about things that they think may be helpful.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2025

Deal activity is definitely picking up. So there’s definitely momentum. There’s still, still plenty of demand out there for quality assets, but the definition of quality assets has changed over the past five years, Mertz said. On the ground, I think more deals are moving forward than we saw, a year ago, for sure.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

Each palliative care provider is determining their own sort of definition, and how they define what quality looks like, Everett said. Technology innovations will be a large driver toward greater quality transparency and accountability, he indicated.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2025

We feel a Palliative Care Council would be highly valuable to the Wisconsinites by increasing awareness, bringing better access to rural communities, particularly to community-based palliative care and modernizing the states definition of palliative care. Sexten is also chair of the Wisconsin Hospice & Palliative Care Association.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Data is going to be part of the push to have some sort of definition or funding for palliative care. For palliative and transitional care, that leaves a huge opportunity. But its very hard, were losing money on 80% of our patients. Researchers from across the globe have also examined the cost-savings potential around palliative care delivery.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

It’s definitely very feasible versus going from home to home. However, while opportunities exist for hospices in senior living, competition for those referral relationships has become fierce. There’s a lot of competition in that space, because you have a lot of people under one roof, Ponder Stansel said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Challenging this payment pathway in the VBID model was a lack of definition for the palliative care component, which led to widespread issues of consistency across the demonstration, sources told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Expanding services to them prior to Medicares current definition of hospice is how an individual has support that really walks alongside them. The future is always grounded in making sure were focused on what the patient needs. We need to listen to what they and their families are asking of us if were ever going to hit the mark.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As in Western countries health-care systems, advance care planning is being increasingly implemented in Asian ones, but consensus on its definition and recommendations based on Asian culture are lacking. In high-context, Confucian-influenced Asian societies, explicit conversations about end-of-life care with patients are not always the norm.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Telehealth has been a positive evolution in recent years to help address some of our challenges that definitely helps in rural care. We also need to have expanded flexibilities that allow us to do hospice care in other ways. Were very glad for the recently extended flexibilities , and we hope that continues indefinitely.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

If you do a Google search of any hospice provider, definitely some of the larger ones that have more scale, one of the first things that is going to pop up is an obituary thanking the care team who helped them during the end-of-life process.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Everett: I’ll say definitely quality. It’s going to really position us to do some great things in the future. What are ProCares most pressing priorities as you look ahead to 2025? Quality is by far the biggest thing.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Because there’s definitely an increasing need every day for the hospice services; we don’t want to limit the growth of good actors, but you definitely don’t want to give more money to the bad. Whether or not that needs to be clarified, it’s definitely something that our office can review and look further into.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A primary barrier for patient and family access to palliative care is a lack of standardized definition and payment mechanism. Without an established palliative care benefit or universally recognized definition in place, care delivery models, patient experiences and reimbursement of palliative care services vary widely across the nation.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2025

You hear all the time about how the future of health care is in the home, so its definitely a growing space for health care. We are thinking about this from a holistic perspective of not just encouraging people to get into home-based care, but also help them succeed when they choose a career, Szolarova told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

A dedicated community-based palliative care benefit that is properly reimbursed would definitely catalyze growth and sustainability of these programs,” Baird told Hospice News in an email. To date, lagging reimbursement has been a barrier to home-based serious illness care, he said. “A

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

.” “We realized that we were sort of hiring all these folks whose narrow definition of palliative care was either from their hospice lens or from their inpatient palliative care lens, where you’re only asked to come and work with really challenging symptom management,” Smith said at the conference. “So

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

PACE programs are definitely open to capitated arrangements — per-participant, per-month. These are palliative care contracts where they really don’t want them to be on hospice, because they have to foot the bill.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

I have definitely seen firsthand the increased interest in palliative care for these large physician groups that are based in primary care,” Hughes told Hospice News in an email. “On Forming collaborations can be an avenue to supporting the full scope of interdisciplinary services involved, Hughes stated. “I

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

It was definitely a big, big priority for [UnitedHealth Group] to have better solutions to help their members, and so they made a decision,” Smith told Hospice News. Kristopher Smith, chief clinical officer for both Prospero Health and Landmark Health.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 9, 2025

Concepcions day starts by scrolling through patient wound photossomething she likens to checking her social media feed (though definitely not for the faint of heart). The Behind-the-Scenes Magic If you think wound care is all bedside dressings, think again.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2024

Buyers and sellers] are definitely coming closer. While many buyers were willing to pay that premium, some stepped out of the market due to the high valuations. But deal volume has largely declined in late 2023 and early 2024, and valuations are starting to come down.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

The biggest barrier to achieving more widespread palliative care integration is the lack of a clear definition of that term, a lagging reimbursement system and fragmentation in the health care system, according to Tiffany Hughes, COO of Texas-headquartered palliative care provider PalliCare Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

CMS in February released a proposed rule that would introduce a number of provisions aimed at avoiding conflicts of interest and establishing more consistent standards, processes and definitions among accreditation entities, particularly those with deeming authority.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, announced in June at the Hospice News Elevate conference, includes proposed ways for hospice providers to have clearer definitions and improved payment avenues for services such as radiation therapy and palliation.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

With Gentiva and Texas being the largest piece [with] their gross margins in the low 20s thats definitely going to be impactful as part of the mix. We will continue to selectively pursue acquisitions in 2025 that complement our organic growth and align with our strategy.

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2024

Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gentiva’s personal care business for about $350 million. Gentiva’s personal care segment brings in annual revenues of close to $280.0

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

But while the flexible definition of those services can give providers room to innovate, positive change has been slow going, Scott Levy, chief government affairs officer for Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED). “Palliative care” is becoming a buzz word in health care, even if many people don’t understand the loosely defined term.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Challenges and opportunities exist without a standardized definition or a federally established palliative care benefit in place. It’s a positive and a negative that there’s no standard definition,” Dedes said. “It At least half of all in-home palliative providers are hospices, reported the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2024

“The lack of both consumer and health care professional understanding of what palliative care can do alongside curative treatments for the seriously ill, coupled with the fact that we don’t yet have a standard definition of palliative care, are the main obstacles,” he told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

This is evidenced by its definitive agreement to acquire Haven Hospice for $60 million, inked in June. The company remains on the hunt for strategic acquisitions. Going forward, BrightSpring has an “overflowing” pipeline of transaction opportunities, according to Rousseau. and Haven Medical Group LLC.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2024

Unfortunately, the lack of definition for the palliative care component led to a consistency issue across the demonstration, according to Mollie Gurian, vice president of Home-Based and HCBS Policy at LeadingAge.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

So they definitely understood the concern and agree that payment reform is probably needed. Our members feel like they do a lot under their per diem, but they certainly see others in their community who do a lot less. But as to whether per- visit is the right answer, the jury is still out.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 25, 2024

BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ: BTSG) has penned a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Haven Hospice in a $60 million deal. The transaction includes the purchase of two brands, North Central Florida Hospice, Inc. and Haven Medical Group, LLC.

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