Hospice News

MAY 7, 2025

Employee appreciation efforts have also included various events, awards and recognitions in observance of National Nurses Week. The documentation requirements for Medicare compliance can be extensive, especially in the days of all the [audits] going on right now across most organizations.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have introduced a bill designed to foster greater access to advance care planning (ACP) among Medicare beneficiaries. Unfortunately, most patients do not routinely make advance plans for their care in the event that they are diagnosed with a serious or life-threatening illness,” Collins said in a press release.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

The Medicare Hospice Benefit is ripe for change nearly four decades after its establishment, but moving the needle will include a heavy lift around evolving regulations. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] think it’s overdue for some reform. But hospice has moved into a new era.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has offered further guidance on what rules will change when the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) ends on May 11. The agency is keeping the provision that other activities should continue to focus on adverse events. However, most will end for Medicare Advantage and Part D plans.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Payment streams for palliative care, most palliative programs are relying on a combination of Medicare Part B and grants and fundraising,” Schramm said. Other reimbursement options exist via payment arrangements with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Managed Services Organizations (MSOs).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The home health and hospice provider recently terminated its home health contract with the Medicare Advantage payer UnitedHealthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), citing nine months of unsuccessful negotiations. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s proposed 2025 payment rule. rate cut from the U.S.

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JUNE 21, 2023

The staffing shortage was a topic of conversation during Hospice Action Week, a lobbying event held by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the Hospice Action Network. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2.8% The bill’s most recent go around was last May, reintroduced by Sens.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

“Once again leading by example, [the Carter family] is showing us how to embrace a stage of life that people don’t want to think about — that people don’t want to talk about,” NHPCO COO and interim CEO Ben Marcantonio said at the Times Square event. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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AUGUST 1, 2024

The councils will ensure improved health care access and utilization and help with event and volunteer engagement, among other responsibilities. About 80,150 Medicare decedents in Ohio utilized hospice services in 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act would expand utilization of these services by removing Medicare payment barriers faced by both providers and patients. The bill proposes to “wave,” or remove, Medicare beneficiary cost-sharing for advance care planning services. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. We typically suggest that hospices follow the hospice election model form from CMS, because if you use language that CMS has essentially vetted, then Medicare contractors are going to be hard-pressed to invalidate an election statement. In recent years, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded a Condition of Participation pertaining to disaster preparedness planning. Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic.

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JUNE 17, 2022

For example, if a patient who decided to forgo life-extending treatment or resuscitation due to terminal cancer is brought to the emergency department for a different reason, like a cardiac event, staff may assume that their documented wishes do not apply in this other circumstance, Pope told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

For starters, rural regions are less likely to have a Medicare-certified hospice than urban counties. The events of the past two years have opened the eyes of many patients to telehealth’s potential , according to Fratkin. The service areas of the nearest hospices may not extend far enough to reach some of the people in those zones.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ramped up auditing activity in the space while also sunsetting the hospice component of its value-based insurance design (VBID) model demonstration ahead of its initial expiration. The financial incentives in Medicare Advantage are designed to reduce overutilization, researchers indicated.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Furthermore, poor transitions can spark hospital readmissions within 30 days, adversely affecting hospital quality ratings and Medicare reimbursement. According to the study, approximately 1 in 5 patients experience adverse events during this kind of transition.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

HHCJ received Medicare certification in 2006 and was operated by Catholic Community Services prior to its closure. Reports of] the events together is a mischaracterization, leading the community to believe the events are related.” “And so we can’t just accept a large number of patients. They have to be on-call 24/7.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sinai Health System, said at the event. Among Medicare beneficiaries, readmission rates dropped to less than 9%, down from 23.4%. For Medicare patients, readmissions fell to 7.1% “And then ultimately, to scale our screening and resources and advocate for systematic change.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

But now further disruption is looming in the home health space, raising the question of whether buyers will again lean towards hospice as events unfold. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in June released its proposed home health reimbursement rule for 2023, which included a 7.69% reduction in the base payment rate.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Registration remains open through the event day, but interested parties are encouraged to sign up by April 14 to secure access to an Early Bird T-shirt pickup event, allowing them to skip the pickup line on hike day. Hope Hospice is also seeking event sponsors. Various publicity benefits are provided at four sponsorship levels.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Affordable Care Act mandated that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) establish risk categories for Medicare enrollment, which are used by CMS to determine what level of scrutiny to give provider enrollment applications, which includes initial enrollment, change of ownership (“CHOW”) applications, and revalidations.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

The skyrocketing increase in Medicare Advantage enrollees hit our home health business, causing costly, deeper disruptions. We look for adverse events and all aspects of the patients. All home-based care business lines seemed to be under attack. In our development, we chose the moniker “burn the ships.”

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

For instance, if the graph above reflects my experiences, I can share my stats on social media and that my longest hold time was when I filed a Medicare appeal about a decision to discharge my mom from a skilled nursing facility to home. I can then ask, “When have you filed an appeal with your caree’s insurance company?” (I

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

You really need to try and make sure you have dotted all your I’s and crossed all your T’s so that the government doesn’t come knocking,” Persons said during the event. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) In 2021, the U.S.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 16, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent improvement in HHAs’ total performance scores (TPS) and an average annual savings of $141 million to Medicare without evidence of adverse risks.” The overall picture is jarring: the U.S. trillion by 2028.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 17, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent improvement in HHAs' total performance scores (TPS) and an average annual savings of $141 million to Medicare without evidence of adverse risks.”. The overall picture is jarring: the U.S. trillion by 2028.

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AlayaCare

JULY 7, 2019

This is the flagship event for the Home Care Association of Florida, which is celebrating 30 years of serving the state’s home care providers and vendors. The HCAF is trying to spur a can-do attitude as both Medicare and private care providers brace for the waves of change at their doorstep.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. While the U.S. What outcomes were measured and how?

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. While the U.S. A quick recap on the HHVBP pilot program.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

One of the best examples of that trend is the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) demonstration’s Medicare Advantage (MA) carve-in for hospice. By using the CitusHealth platform, patients and families can immediately get answers to urgent or emergent questions, perhaps preventing a catastrophic health event. “By

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. Alex: And since, was it ’70s when Medicare legislation came to be, and they explicitly prohibited inclusion of hearing aids and coverage under Medicare policy, right?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JULY 21, 2022

Their love for riding is 98% work to prepare for the actual event of riding. Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act.

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Healthcare Law Insights podcast

MARCH 13, 2024

It came as a surprise to our team when we learned that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was ending the hospice component of Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) on December 31, 2024.

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JULY 24, 2022

Government legislation is also fueling growth, with Medicare for example expected to approve a rising number of home-based health care services in the next few years in a bid to limit the burden on hospitals. In fact, globally, the market is expected to reach $31.9 billion USD by 2022.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 4, 2021

Government legislation is also fueling growth, with Medicare for example expected to approve a rising number of home-based health care services in the next few years in a bid to limit burden on hospitals. In fact, globally, the market is expected to reach $31.9 billion USD by 2022.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 29, 2020

AlayaCare was proud to participate in this year’s event in Miami, which isn’t solely about education and knowledge translation. For every agency in America that hasn’t ventured into non-medical care, there is major opportunity to do so now in the form of Medicare Advantage reimbursement.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Hospice Action Week brings together leaders, advocates, and supporters from across the country to unite as one voice to drive positive, legislative change for the betterment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. “The cornerstone of effective advocacy is storytelling.

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