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How Palliative Care Can Better Support Transplant Patients’ Caregivers

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The trend represents significant unmet needs that some say palliative care providers are well-positioned to fill. These are just some of the areas that palliative care teams could help to improve. Palliative care providers are really poised to help improve quality of life for both the recipient and their caregiver.

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Integrating Alternative Medicine in Palliative Care

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Some patients wish to seek out alternative medicine therapies while receiving palliative care, and providers can benefit from understanding the nature and possible outcomes of these interventions, recent research has found. Trust, patient preferences, and adaptability are key for palliative care teams.

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The Link Between Palliative and Mental Health Care

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Low palliative care utilization is associated with higher risk of mental health challenges among patients with pancreatic cancer, recent research found. Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018.

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Only 22% of Americans Have Documented End-of-Life Wishes

Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

A majority of people in the United States know the types of end-of-life care they wish to receive, but only 22% have documented their wishes. Significant variations in advance care planning utilization also exist among racial and ethnic groups. About 25% of those who have documented their wishes are white. NYSE: CHE).

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How Health System Palliative Providers Can Leverage Data to Gain More Resources

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Palliative care clinicians in health systems can apply research to lobby administrators for additional resources. Palliative care’s reputation grew during the pandemic, with more patients and health care organizations recognizing its benefits and value. and spiritual care providers during the pandemic. “The

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Boosting Compliance Through Hospice Physician Engagement

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

These factors, among others, make ongoing physician engagement crucial, Dr. Lauren Templeton, physician consultant for Weatherbee Resources said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organizations (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference. You can imagine how this improves the level and consistency of our documentation.

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How Hospices Can Avoid Pitfalls in AI Implementation

Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

However, careful implementation is necessary to effectively use these systems. For a number of years now, providers have leveraged AI to predict when a patient may become eligible for hospice or to determine the best time to begin palliative care. This requires careful evaluation.

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Film ‘Caregiving’ Aims to Amplify Awareness, Ignite Systemic Change

Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2025

Family caregiving is the greatest untold story in the health care space, Durrance told Palliative Care News. Like most people, I didnt even think about caregiving until my father was diagnosed with cancer, Cooper said in a Well Beings Caregiving film trailer shared with Palliative Care News. It really is up to us.

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California Hospice Physician Sues CMS, HHS Over Fraud Allegations

Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Shaarawy provides internal and family medicine, palliative care and hospice services and operates a private practice in Canoga Park, California. court documents stated. Without the injunction granted, patients stand to lose both trust and care continuity, Shaarawy’s attorneys indicated in the court documents.

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Improving Inclusive Palliative Care for Transgender Patients

Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative care delivery approaches that are not gender-inclusive can contribute to significant quality issues in caring for transgender populations. Developing trust, empathy and understanding with a patient are particularly important pieces of quality gender-affirming palliative care delivery, according to Fried.

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The Role of Medicare Advantage in Growing Palliative Care Services

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For the time being, Medicare Advantage may be providers’ best bet for palliative care reimbursement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) also allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit. based research and consulting firm ATI Advisory.

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Telehealth Improves Palliative Care Access for Parkinson Patients

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A recent study has found that offering telehealth services to patients with Parkinson disease can help increase awareness around their palliative care options and improve their quality of life. Quality outcomes were different for patients after six months of receiving telepalliative care services, the study found.

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OIG: Dedicated Leadership Key to Effective Hospice Compliance

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It’s not required,” Jillian Sparks, attorney at the OIG’s Industry Guidance Branch, said during a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Annual Leadership Conference.

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Incorporating Palliative Care in Hospice: The Tech Perspective

Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care. Every organization structures its care approach a little differently and delivers that care in a variety of care settings.

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Top 5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories from 2023

Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The topics range from unmet staff and patient needs, financial and operational headwinds and research fueling innovative care delivery approaches. This article explored the emerging strategies in palliative care that could have promising impacts on strengthening this workforce, including education and technology initiatives.

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Koda Health, Guidehealth Launch Advance Care Planning Partnership

Hospice News

MAY 2, 2025

The advance care planning tech company Koda Health is partnering with the AI-enabled health care services platform Guidehealth to enhance goals-of-care documentation. Guidehealth supports more than 600,000 lives and partners with leading health systems and CINs across the country to advance value-based care performance.

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Stratis Health Builds Framework for Expanding Rural Community-Based Palliative Care

Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The health care performance improvement company Stratis Health has developed a framework for expanding access to palliative care in rural communities. What are some of the unique needs of rural populations when it comes to palliative care? For example, who’s doing advanced care planning?

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AccentCare CMO Loengard: Palliative Care a ‘Huge Opportunity’

Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

Home-based care provider AccentCare has been busy since its merger with Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, exploring new technologies and care delivery strategies, as well as expanding business lines. To what extent do these programs collaborate with your hospice and palliative care teams?

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Gentiva Acquires ProMedica’s Hospice, Home Health, Palliative Care Business

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The hospice, palliative care and personal care provider Gentiva has acquired the hospice, home health and palliative assets of the nonprofit health system ProMedica. ProMedica’s palliative care business will operate under Gentiva’s Empatia Palliative Care brand.

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3 Key Hospice Technology Trends

Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

The hospices Voyage Vigil Program is one example of how the provider leverages technology to help identify the most vulnerable patients in need of more intense care. Croix Hospice voice-to-text technology to reduce clinical documentation time and administrative burdens. Additionally, St.

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How Palliative Care Fits in to CMMI’s Enhancing Oncology Model

Hospice News

JULY 5, 2023

A new cancer-focused payment model demonstration from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) could create opportunities for palliative care providers. And they also are required to have care partners that can meet holistic needs. That’s another CMMI program that has an obvious palliative care tie-in.”

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Hospice, Palliative Care Groups Call for Telehealth Codes on Medicare Claims

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A coalition of hospice and palliative care industry groups has urged lawmakers to make billing codes for telehealth available on Medicare hospice claim forms. Hospice providers need the opportunity to reflect the full scope of care provided to patients experiencing serious illness.”.

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Palliative Care Providers Leverage Data to Thrive within Value-Based Reimbursement Models

Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

Data collection and analysis are becoming increasingly important to palliative care providers’ clinical and business processes. Richardson Community Hospice entered into a partnership with the tech company WellSky, using a predictive analytics platform to identify patients in need of palliative care or hospice earlier.

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Bilingual Patient Navigation Can Improve Palliative Care Outcomes for Hispanic Patients

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Bicultural and bilingual palliative patient navigator interventions may be a key to improving access to goal concordant care among Hispanic populations with serious illness, according to recent research.

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Payers, Providers Won’t Find Alignment Until Better Palliative Care Quality Standards Are Established

Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

Palliative care providers find themselves in a dilemma. Demand for the service they provide is growing, but that growth is hindered by a lack of industry-wide standards for palliative care. Many palliative care programs lose money because there isn’t a sustainable reimbursement model, according to Baird.

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Palliative Care Panel: A Discussion with Axxess

Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. Can you each introduce yourselves from your experience in palliative care, and walk us through what each of your roles are?

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Voices: Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services, KanTime

Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In that role, I worked on improving outcomes and surveys along with chart reviews, which are critical to my role as the VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services today. KanTime can capture affiliated providers, documents and palliative care-to-hospice transitions seamlessly by overlaying medical records for easy reference.

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Palliative Care Training Initiative Launches to Improve Quality Among Incarcerated Populations

Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

The new two-week spiritual training program was recently provided to palliative care service workers and volunteers to assist CMF’s clinical and nursing staff caring for patients at the facility’s hospice, correctional treatment center and memory care units.

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How AccentCare Pursues Growth Via JVs, De Novos

Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2025

Dallas-headquartered AccentCare provides hospice, home health, personal and palliative care across 32 states and in the District of Columbia. AccentCare also offers non-medical services, care management and veterans services. The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020.

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How CMS’ 2024 Risk Adjustment Rules May Affect Palliative Care Companies

Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) updated risk adjustment policy could lead to tightened belts — or a golden opportunity — for palliative care providers in Medicare Advantage. Much of the palliative care delivered to U.S. It has resulted in a lot of concerns around upcoding.

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Understanding the 7 C’s of Palliative Care

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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Compliance Landmines in the Hospice Regulatory Landscape

Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2024

The current state of hospice regulations has providers walking compliance tightropes, according to Patrick Harrison, senior director of regulatory and compliance at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Fraud, waste and abuse exist in several different industries and health care is no exception.

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Hospices Leverage Technology to Improve Patient, Employee Satisfaction, Reduce Turnover

Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A frequent goal is reducing the amount of time spent on documentation. Though complete and accurate documentation is essential to regulatory compliance, patient safety and securing payment, the sheer amount of it is taxing for staff. Among the dissatisfiers is the encroachment of documentation into clinicians personal lives.

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Building Mental Health Supports for Palliative Care Teams

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Palliative care organizations that integrate employee feedback into their staff development policies have a fighting chance in battling ongoing burnout and turnover in the field. The palliative care workforce is facing a wide range of challenges that impact their ability to thrive in the field.

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Health Care Orgs Face Liability If End-of-Life Wishes Not Upheld

Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

A clinician may not not have realized they were acting contrary to patients’ wishes due to insufficient training, documentation errors or process breakdowns. . In other instances, a health care provider acts deliberately. They know the patient’s wishes were documented but chose to ignore them.

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New York Governor Vetoes Bill to Limit For-Profit Hospices

Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2023

“There are currently only two for-profit hospices operating in the state, both of which are under the supervision of the Department of Health, which has not found issues with fraud or quality of care at either.”. The Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State tweeted a photograph of the veto document.

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Brisas Health Unveils New Supportive Care Service

Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Puerto Rico-based Brisas Health has launched a new supportive care service in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the organization’s founding. With Brisas Supportive, we aim to provide a renewed sense of freedom in health care, allowing everyone to access palliative care without the restrictions of any one specific healthcare plan.”

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CMS Updates Enhancing Oncology Model for 2025

Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

The goals of the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), which went live on July 1, are to improve quality and reduce the cost of cancer care with augmented care coordination. While documents on the model do not specifically mention palliative care, several elements of the model align with that care model.

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Preventing Adverse Drug Events in Hospice Care

Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Documentation errors and a fragmented health system pose the greatest risks for adverse drug events among hospices. McPherson also serves on the board of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). ADRs are commonly experienced in palliative care patients and are often preventable. About 81.5%

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Investigators, Prosecutors Take on Hospice Fraud in California, Arizona

Hospice News

APRIL 6, 2023

Kevin Sarkisyan, of San Gabriel Hospice & Palliative Care, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government for his involvement in submitting false enrollment applications to Medicare that hid the “real owners of a hospice company,” according to court documents. Karen Sarkisyan, a.k.a.

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Partners in Care Sues HHS Over Claims Denials

Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Partners in Care offers hospice, palliative care and home health to about 1,000 patients daily in five counties in its home state. Partners in Care supplied OIG with the requested documents, amounting to thousands of pages, according to court documents. 1, 2016 and Dec.

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2025 Proposed Rule Seeks to Clarify Physician Certification of Hospice Patients

Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

as well as a number of changes to quality reporting requirements and requests for information on higher-acuity palliative services, health equity and social determinants of health. Compliance on certification and associated documentation is crucial. But the potential confusion didn’t stop there.

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Transparency Essential to Hospice Compliance in 2024

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 of the Foothills Rebrands With Eye on Access

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Rebranded as Foothills Compassionate Care, the hospice provider also offers palliative care, caregiver and grief support services as well as community education and resources. Thrift store revenue is allocated to support its Sierra Community Palliative Care program and bereavement services as well as to fund caregiver grants.

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How Palliative Care Can Better Support Transplant Patients’ Caregivers

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Only 22% of Americans Have Documented End-of-Life Wishes

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Boosting Compliance Through Hospice Physician Engagement

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Film ‘Caregiving’ Aims to Amplify Awareness, Ignite Systemic Change

California Hospice Physician Sues CMS, HHS Over Fraud Allegations

Improving Inclusive Palliative Care for Transgender Patients

The Role of Medicare Advantage in Growing Palliative Care Services

Telehealth Improves Palliative Care Access for Parkinson Patients

OIG: Dedicated Leadership Key to Effective Hospice Compliance

Incorporating Palliative Care in Hospice: The Tech Perspective

Top 5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories from 2023

Koda Health, Guidehealth Launch Advance Care Planning Partnership

Stratis Health Builds Framework for Expanding Rural Community-Based Palliative Care

AccentCare CMO Loengard: Palliative Care a ‘Huge Opportunity’

Gentiva Acquires ProMedica’s Hospice, Home Health, Palliative Care Business

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How Palliative Care Fits in to CMMI’s Enhancing Oncology Model

Hospice, Palliative Care Groups Call for Telehealth Codes on Medicare Claims

Palliative Care Providers Leverage Data to Thrive within Value-Based Reimbursement Models

Bilingual Patient Navigation Can Improve Palliative Care Outcomes for Hispanic Patients

Payers, Providers Won’t Find Alignment Until Better Palliative Care Quality Standards Are Established

Palliative Care Panel: A Discussion with Axxess

Voices: Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services, KanTime

Palliative Care Training Initiative Launches to Improve Quality Among Incarcerated Populations

How AccentCare Pursues Growth Via JVs, De Novos

How CMS’ 2024 Risk Adjustment Rules May Affect Palliative Care Companies

Understanding the 7 C’s of Palliative Care

Compliance Landmines in the Hospice Regulatory Landscape

Hospices Leverage Technology to Improve Patient, Employee Satisfaction, Reduce Turnover

Building Mental Health Supports for Palliative Care Teams

Health Care Orgs Face Liability If End-of-Life Wishes Not Upheld

New York Governor Vetoes Bill to Limit For-Profit Hospices

Brisas Health Unveils New Supportive Care Service

CMS Updates Enhancing Oncology Model for 2025

Preventing Adverse Drug Events in Hospice Care

Investigators, Prosecutors Take on Hospice Fraud in California, Arizona

Partners in Care Sues HHS Over Claims Denials

2025 Proposed Rule Seeks to Clarify Physician Certification of Hospice Patients

Transparency Essential to Hospice Compliance in 2024

Hospice of the Foothills Rebrands With Eye on Access

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