Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Close to 60% of nearly 330 hospice professionals indicated that their organizations planned to launch palliative care programs for the first time during 2023, according to Hospice News’ Industry Outlook Survey , prepared in collaboration with Homecare Homebase. This marks a climb from 52% last year.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

About 9% of nearly 330 hospice professionals indicated that they planned to launch pediatric end-of-life care services for the first time this year during 2023 in this year’s Hospice News Outlook Survey , prepared in collaboration with Homecare Homebase. Mertz Photography Mertz Photography Atonia Garret at the 2023 Palliative Care Conference.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Fosinas 30-year career included health care leadership roles, including serving as president of NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital and its home health and hospice services, Lawrence Homecare and Jansen Hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

“The resurgence of hospice program integrity scrutiny after recent media reports highlighted fraud, specifically in four states, sparked in-person visits by CMS to every Medicare-enrolled hospice, and found about 400 being considered for administrative action,” says Courtney True, BSN, RN, and Strategic Account Executive of Homecare Homebase.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Addus president, COO retires Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) President and COO Brad Bickham recently announced his retirement, effective March 2026. A few hospice executives have recently announced their retirement as new leaders step forward at a number of organizations. and MedStar Health.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Recently, many of those efforts have included advocacy around program integrity within the Medicare Hospice Benefit. The organizations have been moving forward under the guidance of a steering committee informed by members of both NAHC and NHPCO, with support from the consulting firm McKinley Advisors.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS)] efforts there. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. To become a Future Leader, an individual is nominated by their peers. He had a very personal connection to hospice.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Physician offices were identified among the most significant referral growth opportunities in 2024 by about 6% of 143 respondents to Hospice News’ 2024 Outlook Survey , conducted with Homecare Homebase. Created in partnership with Homecare Homebase. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a 2.7% Beyond the rising costs, Medicare is phasing in the return of payment sequestration, which was temporarily suspended during the COVID-19 public health emergency. “I pay increase for hospice care for Fiscal Year 2023.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Pennant Group acquired five Medicare hospice provider numbers during the past six months, which accelerated growth for its home-based care segment. Addus HomeCare Based on 2023 earnings trends,Addus HomeCare Cop. CDR in 2022 purchased a 60% stake from the insurance mammoth Humana, Inc., NYSE: HUM) for $2.8

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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. for an undisclosed sum. Hospice utilization in the Illinois market reached 50.3%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Guaranteed serves Medicare and Medicaid patients across five counties in southern California, including the Los Angeles region. California-based Guaranteed launched last year in August by founder and CEO Jessica McGlory. The hospice provider’s strategic growth plans include a geographic stretch into Pennsylvania.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As of the end of Q2, this included 23 deals compared to 17 each for Medicare-certified home health and for hospice, according to a report by M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart. Medicare Advantage is a clear example. Addus Homecare (NASDAQ: ADUS), Amedisys, LHC Group (NASDAQ: LHCG) each made statements to that effect early in the year.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2022

Michigan had the 10th highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents during 2018 at 53.8%, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. The company purchased three Missouri companies from LifeCare Collective last October — HomeCare of Mid Missouri, Nurses & Company, and Transitions Hospice.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Susan Ponder-Stansel, CEO of Alivia Care, sat down with Hospice News and its sister site Home Health Care News at the HomeCare 100 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, to discuss the ways providers need to retool in order to care for the burgeoning seriously ill, senior population. What are your biggest 2024 focuses, challenges and goals?

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2024

Companies like The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG), Addus HomeCare (NASDAQ: ADUS) and BrightSpring Health Services Inc. The company in December 2023 picked up Arizona-based Southwestern Palliative Care & Hospice after acquiring five Medicare hospice providers in multiple states the prior month. VITAS is not alone.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

Are you in an outlier scenario with your data that Medicare contractors are looking at? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Young told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Uncertainty earlier this year around Medicare’s proposed 2023 home health payment rates led some stakeholders to expect a swerve towards hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in August proposed a 4.2% aggregate cut in the home health base rate, reported Hospice News sister publication Home Health Care News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

C-suite leaders from the home health and hospice provider Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) remarked that the company will soon lengthen its reach within Medicare Advantage. The note showed that the high rate of inflation is driving higher than average payment rate increases with insurance plans in their 2023 contracts.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] releasing a new payment model called [Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE)] in a per member, per month schedule for palliative care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last year began testing the inclusion of hospice in the value-based insurance design demonstration (VBID). Addus HomeCare’s (NASDAQ: ADUS) $85 million acquisition of hospice and palliative care provider JourneyCare also topped the valuation list at 16.62x. Valued at roughly $6.4

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2022

Also in Missouri, the company purchased three Missouri companies from LifeCare Collective last October — HomeCare of Mid Missouri, Nurses & Company and Transitions Hospice. among Medicare decedents in 2018, which is in line with that year’s national average, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

Recently the analytics firm Hospice Dynamix entered a yet-to-be-announced partnership with Homecare Homebase to integrate their platform into the latter’s electronic health record system. according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Artificial intelligence and predictive analytics in particular are gaining in prevalence.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. A notable challenge, however, pertains to the adoption of the value-based insurance design (VBID) [demonstration] by [Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs)]. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. Almost all of them are now almost at the Medicare age. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

National Association of Homecare and Hospice. These flexibilities allow patients to take part in telehealth visits from wherever they call home and allow for the use of telehealth for low-touch, administrative face-to-face visits prior to recertification for the hospice benefit. . National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The ability to increase public awareness and community education efforts was cited as the third top concern by 16% of 112 hospice professionals who participated in this years Outlook Survey by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase. Photo by Hospice News Photo by Hospice News 2025 Outlook Survey Results by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

As the demand for palliative care continues to grow, so too has the way businesses have bolstered their programs to better serve patients. Providers are consistently looking for new methods to deliver responsive, value-based services that can generate savings and reduce high-acuity utilization. Enter UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

His previous employers include Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ: AVAH), Nextaff, Saint Jude Hospice & Spirit Homecare, Iowa Hospice and Bon Secours Health System, among others. I was kind of just doing it to learn to give back and didn’t really know what hospice was, certainly not the modern day Medicare benefit.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

In negotiations with Medicare Advantage plans, for instance, hospice and palliative care providers will need to demonstrate their performance in terms of star ratings, other quality metrics and reduced hospitalizations. This includes performance on quality measures required by the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Providers typically utilize Medicare beneficiary data and population statistics to determine which counties they choose to serve, Sanders said. Hansen also serves as executive director of the Homecare & Hospice Association of Utah (HHAU). You have to walk in line with the [patient] demand and regulatory requirements.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. There is so much more to aging than just hospice, including implications around palliative and primary care and just a wider breadth of policy issues than those just directly related to the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Fewer than half of 143 respondents to Hospice News’ 2024 Outlook Survey , conducted with Homecare Homebase, reported that their hospice organizations would pursue new care types this year. But the aim of their service diversification efforts may indicate future trends.

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But I always feel like hospice has been the caboose on the Medicare train. You can just go to homecare pulse.com/podcast while you’re there. Jennifer has quite the impressive resume. She has more than 35 years of experience as a leader and nurse in diverse healthcare settings. I’m Amanda Stern Clark there.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2025

Regulatory changes and increasing oversight were the second-most cited concerns among nearly a quarter (21%) of 112 hospice professionals who participated in this years Outlook Survey by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase. Photo by Hospice News Photo by Hospice News 2025 Outlook Survey Results by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase.

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