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National Alliance’s Scott Levy: Hospices Need ‘Regulatory Relief’ to Protect ‘Sacred Benefit’

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This was always a career path I wanted to take, but the form of it coming in home health and hospice was not one I expected. Home health and hospice became a part of my career and Ive been able to advocate for other families to have the experiences that my family has had.

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M&A Volume May Shift From Hospice to Home Health

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In the hospice and home health arena, what we are seeing is that there’s a little bit of a tilt to home health now over hospice, but you still have the private equity firms that have a very hospice heavy thesis, and they’re in their thought process.

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CDR Asks State to Approve Sale of Two Oregon Kindred at Home Locations

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Two Oregon locations included in Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) divestiture of Kindred at Home’s hospice assets are currently under review by the state’s health authority — part of the diligence process involved in any M&A transaction. The insurance giant and health care provider will retain the remaining 40%.

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Hospices that Excel During COVID More Attractive to Buyers

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Deal volume is definitely down this year over the past few record-setting years. It’s down a bit by about 10% – 11% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2021 as some of the investor focus shifts to home health. There was definitely a perfect storm the past couple years with hospice.

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AGG, New Day’s Bill Dombi: Hospices’ ‘Vibrant Evolutionary Path’ Spurs Legal Growing Pains 

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Its seeing the promise of hospice care being realized, and seeing the greater focus on an expansion in the definition of palliative services as being exciting, positive things coming about. Its a yin and yang of those things that keep hospices up at night and also wake them up in the morning. Its about going back to the basics.

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How April Anthony, Investors Built New Home Health and Hospice Company VitalCaring

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For now, expanding its “bread and butter” home health and hospice business takes priority, according to Anthony, but VitalCaring will likely consider additional service lines as the years progress — including palliative care. We’ll definitely see expansion. Palliative care is a great example.

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NAHC President Dombi: Hospices Face Stricter Oversight in 2023

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We saw it in home health, triggering reactions relative to increased audit activity on the claim side of it. I put those definitely on the radar for 2023. We’ve seen a bunch of OIG audits. These are not audits that are saying “ covered/non-covered ,” extrapolated to millions of dollars. .

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