Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

Congress has passed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act 2025 (FY2025) , which allowed for continuation of several public health, Medicare and Medicaid authorities and programs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) temporarily instituted waivers during the public health emergency.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Francis Healthcare System of Hawaiis hospice program. Hospice utilization reached 43.77% among Medicare decedents in Hawaii during 2022, according to a report from the National Alliance for Care at Home. Several of the hospices in the collaborative launched services in early 1980s when the Medicare Hospice Benefit was established.

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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.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to fraud allegations that have resulted in licensure and billing privilege revocation. District Court for the Central Division of California to allow for continued Medicare licensure until the fraud dispute is resolved through the U.S. court documents stated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2025

After hiring their first nurse, Shayla Rowley, who is now COO, the team had plenty of knowledge about the home health and hospice aspects of Medicare Part A, which they used as the basis of their operational model. They quickly ramped up on Medicare Part B, physician care, and used it to create their service lines and billing codes.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The new dementia services were developed in collaboration with the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The hospice and senior care provider Helios Care is partnering with the integrated health system Bassett Healthcare Network to bring more extensive access to hospice and palliative care to patients in central New York. In 2021, 48,644 Medicare beneficiaries in New York state elected the hospice benefit, according to the U.S.

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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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop and implement Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes or modifiers for telehealth visits. .

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Hospices flagged by the SFP also will be surveyed every six months rather than the current three-year cycle and could face monetary penalties or expulsion from the Medicare program. The SFP has the authority to impose enforcement remedies against hospices with poor performance based on its algorithm.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Social and economic factors like these drive 40% of health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance. Health care providers, payers, and other stakeholders are increasingly paying more attention to both social determinants and palliative care, including Medicare and Medicaid. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc. subsidiary (NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare. subsidiary (NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare. At a rate of 57.9%, Florida ranked fourth nationwide for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in 2018, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) subsidiary Aetna has selected Ohio’s Hospice and Pure Healthcare as part of the insurance company’s hospice and palliative care preferred provider network for Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) in the Buckeye State. “This would allow for greater flexibility than the current Medicare model provides.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

Ohio-based palliative care provider Pure Healthcare is collaborating with the nonprofit managed care organization CareSource to implement a new care management model designed to support chronically ill patients. Pure Healthcare and CareSource are both headquartered in Dayton, Ohio. It serves more than 2.3

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, calling for a payment model demonstration designed to support greater access to palliative care. Many hospices are currently participating in other CMMI programs, including the value-based insurance design demonstration (Medicare Advantage carve-in.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. They also were more likely to eventually accept the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Florida-based Hope Healthcare has affiliated with Chapters Health System, a nonprofit provider of hospice, palliative care and home health, among other services. Beckwith has led Hope Healthcare for more than 30 years. NPHI NPHI Hope Healthcare CEO Samira Beckwith. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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AUGUST 7, 2024

Commonly known as the “carve-in,” the program was designed to test hospice care coverage through Medicare Advantage, as well as some coverage of palliative care and transitional care. Hospice reimbursement trends influence palliative care payment and delivery.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Palliative care provider Tuesday Health has penned an agreement with the Medicare Advantage organization CareSource to offer services to its beneficiaries. Last summer, the Medicare Advantage company inked a partnership agreement with the palliative care operator Radiant Health.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

The partnerships’ seven initial members include Community Healthcare of Texas, Hospice Austin, Home Hospice of Grayson County, the Hospice of East Texas, Hospice of El Paso, Hospice in the Pines and Hospice of Wichita Falls. Integrity Care Partners expects to work with a diverse payer mix that would go beyond Medicare populations.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

He most recently served as hospice executive director of Hartford Healthcare at Home, part of The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG). Elizabeth Healthcare and Trustbridge prior to its affiliation with Empath Health. In addition to his new role at Mahogany, Couzens is the lead pastor at Inspirational Bible Church.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) has acquired Chicago-based Apple Home Healthcare, Ltd., among Medicare descendants during 2018, which is in line with the national average, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported. The post Addus Acquires Apple Home Healthcare appeared first on Hospice News.

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MAY 12, 2023

Researchers conducted the study using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Readmissions Database. Currently, palliative care providers can bill for physician services through Medicare Part B. Francoeur is a Los Angeles-based obstetrics and gynecology specialist and resident at UCLA Health.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Medicare Advantage plans are connecting the dots between quality scores and care delivery costs. When choosing a hospice to work with, payers in the Medicare Advantage (MA) realm zero in on providers’ quality scores and its patient population growth potential, according to Frontpoint Healthcare CEO Brent Korte.

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MAY 29, 2024

As the palliative care field continues to grow and transform, understanding the current trends, outlook, relevant challenges and necessary skills for future leaders is critical. She added that these services are now being offered in diverse settings, including outpatient and home-based care models.

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JUNE 24, 2022

We did raise that concern, and they proposed a mechanism for dealing with it,” Harold Miller, president and CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, said at a public HHS meeting in 2018. The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

chief innovation officer of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). Many are unaccustomed to working with private payers as their core business is reimbursed almost entirely through the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Palliative care packs a small but meaningful punch in the value-based payment arena. .

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

Most of these services are reimbursed by private insurance coverage or through Medicare or Medicaid payment avenues, Cone stated. Raising philanthropic funding is often vital to nonprofit palliative care providers. It’s key to point out that palliative care is better for everybody, the patient, the family and payers,” Cone told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

It takes time to build up the payment, referral and workforce resources needed to support a sustainable palliative care program, according to Dr. Stephen Goldfine, chief medical officer at Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Furthermore, poor transitions can spark hospital readmissions within 30 days, adversely affecting hospital quality ratings and Medicare reimbursement. These types of collaborations help to maintain patient safety, quality and continuity of care, and helps ensure that patients are receiving appropriate and timely interventions. Krmpotic said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The company’s palliative care strategy rests on the back of risk-based payment models, primarily Medicare Advantage, Kusserow indicated at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Contessa is already forging agreements with Medicare Advantage payers to offer palliative care, which Kussersow expects to spur revenue upwards. . “We

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APRIL 18, 2025

DBA Hope HealthCare Services. Florida-based Hope HealthCare is an affiliate of the nonprofit Chapters Health System. She is co-founder of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and also founder and president of the Florida PACE Provider Association.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2023

The nation’s fragmented payment structures for palliative care reimbursement create opportunities for regulators to examine the facets of these different models across varied geographic areas and patient populations, according to Fred Bentley, managing director for Medicare innovation at ATI Advisory.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) moves to align all Medicare beneficiaries with an accountable care relationship, these negotiations will become even more paramount. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are key for scaling palliative care through value-based models. As the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As many as one-third of Medicare enrollees have a low-level of health literacy, and research indicates that this increases across-the-board health care costs by as much as 5% annually. “Low Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. There are a lot of barriers.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Increasingly, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have found real value in offering community-based palliative care as a supplemental benefit. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has allowed MA health plans to cover supplemental benefits for eligible patients. Since 2018, the U.S. In January 2023, 30.19 million of the 59.82

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Hospice News

AUGUST 31, 2022

David’s HealthCare has expanded its services to include hospice and home health care in and around the City of Austin. David’s HealthCare was formed through a partnership between hospital operator HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) and two nonprofit organizations — St. David’s HealthCare at Home and St. Texas-based St.

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