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How to Diversify Services Within the Medicare Hospice Benefit

Hospice News

Even if you aren’t ready yet to step outside of the hospice box, diversification is possible within the hospice payment system. These types of programs have proliferated among hospice companies in recent years.

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Stillwater Hospice CFO: A Winning Recipe for Improving Rural Hospice Care

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Montana-headquartered Stillwater Hospice has found a successful rhythm to strategic rural-based growth and sustainability. Launched in 2017, the hospice company serves predominantly rural-based populations in Montana, northern Wyoming and South Dakota. No other hospice care provider is offering vehicles where we are.

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New Inpatient Centers Unveiled as Other Hospice Programs Consider Closure

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As the nations leading provider of end-of-life care, VITAS has had the privilege of serving Fort Worth for 37 years, Dengler said in a statement shared with Hospice News. VITAS operates 55 hospice programs in 15 states and has 11,679 employees.

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

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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. SCAN Group, parent company of SCAN Health Plan, is the latest investor in the hospice company.

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Hospice Operators Watching Closely as Large Payers Transform the Industry

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Hospice News spoke with three hospice leaders about the disruption they expect to see in the industry as payers expand their roles as providers, including the CEO of a California nonprofit, the top executive from the largest U.S. hospice company by market share and the leader of a growing for-profit provider based in the Midwest.

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Frontpoint Health Acquires High Plains Senior Care Group

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In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! Frontpoint Health has completed its acquisition of the Texas-based home health and hospice company High Plains Senior Care Group (HPSC).

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Addus to Acquire Tennessee Quality Care for $106 Million

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The company purchased Illinois-based hospice provider JourneyCare Inc. This year, the company has been weighting its deal pipeline more towards home health and personal care with less of a focus on standalone hospice companies, due to high valuations in the space. “In

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