Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

Originally slated to complete in 2024, CMS recently extended the carve-in, formally known as the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID). During those additional years, patients will be able to receive curative treatments in tandem with hospice care.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

Hospice care is an option for someone who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and a life expectancy of six months or less. Your family can arrange hospice care at a hospital, inpatient hospice facility, long-term care facility, or home. Please contact us for more information.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

The most recent iteration of Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, currently in a discussion draft phase, could have some unintended consequences in the future of end-of-life care delivery. What are some of the effects on the business models in terms of profit over patient care?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

If enacted, the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act could open up reimbursement pathways for high-acuity palliative services during a time when demand and costs are rising. The drafted Hospice CARE Act included potential avenues to improve payment for high-acuity palliative treatments.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) has introduced the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, which, if enacted, could revolutionize the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Earl Blumenauer Introduces Hospice CARE Act in the House appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its fifth and final report on the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM), which studied the effects of allowing individuals to receive hospice care without foregoing other treatments. The agency launched the MCCM in 2016.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

The hospice community is contributing input to the development of the forthcoming Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act. The post ‘Jury Is Out’ on Hospice CARES Act’s Proposed Payment Reforms appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

Greater access to behavioral health care services could help improve outcomes among patients with anorexia nervosa, including the earlier identification of high-risk, vulnerable pediatric patient populations, Brandt said. Behavioral Health Business Reporter Morgan Gonzales contributed to this article.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Six nonprofit hospice providers recently joined forces to form the Hawaii Palliative and Hospice Care Collaborative. The initiative is an effort to ensure sustainable access amid rising demand for end-of-life and serious illness care. This fell below the national average of 49.1% that year, the Alliance reported.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Identification of risk factors for ADRs may prevent occurrences in the complex palliative care patient.” Impacts on quality, compliance Adverse drug reactions can detract from the overall experience of hospice care for patients and their families, Krout said.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, if enacted, would make changes to the ways hospices provide respite care. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) is in the process of drafting the bill that would represent the most significant reforms to date for hospice payment and oversight.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

The forthcoming Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act from U.S. Blumenauer announced the bill in June at the Hospice News Elevate conference in Washington D.C. The post Hospice CARES Act Would Update Medical Reviews, Seek to Reduce Audits appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

Carole Fisher, president, National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) The post ‘Normalizing’ Trauma-Informed Hospice Care Delivery appeared first on Hospice News. Being a voice empowers us not to keep this to ourselves and that it doesn’t define us, it’s just a chapter of life.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“Hospice is a great space in health care. We can really compete in flexibility, whereas other areas of health care can’t as much.” The post The Road Ahead: 2 Pressures Framing the Future of Hospice Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Hospice providers and stakeholders are carefully examining the proposed changes included in the recently introduced Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act as the bill begins its journey through the legislative process. this summer.

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JUNE 4, 2024

More focused care and detailed patient screenings could less risk factors associated with suicide, they added. The post Research Finds Links Between Hospice Care, Reduced Cancer-Related Suicides appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2024

Development of the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act has signaled that a wave of change may be on the horizon in end-of-life care delivery – including how patients are certified to receive these services. Hospice News / Merz Photography Hospice News / Merz Photography Rep.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2025

Among the significant changes that the legislation proposed was having newly licensed hospice programs in Nevada undergo enhanced regulatory oversight for the first two years of operations. Goals of the legislation include an aim to decrease fraud and improve hospice care statewide, according to Edgeworth.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2024

Improved hospice access and utilization is needed with the growing prevalence of HIV and AIDS among older populations, researchers stated. By addressing these unique needs, providers can offer more compassionate, respectful and effective care for LGBTQ+ patients at the end of life.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

However, when a veteran transitions from a VA facility to hospice, they lose access to that benefit. This is even the case when hospice care is provided by the VA itself. Gerald’s Law would institute those benefits for those veterans who die in hospice.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The data come at a time when hospices are striving to better understand how to improve those groups’ end-of-life trajectories. Technology utilization has gained momentum in health care, including in hospice care delivery. Coupled with the telehealth disparities are inequities pertaining to hospice care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Carol Miller (R-West Virginia) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) have reintroduced the Hospice Recertification Flexibility Act. If enacted, the bill would allow hospices to conduct face-to-face recertification visits via telehealth. Hospice care exists to provide comfort and compassion during heartbreaking times.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Over the years, Hospice of the Valley has grown. When I began 30 years ago, we were caring for about 140 hospice patients on any given day, and we had just shy of 100 employees. Weve expanded our programs beyond hospice care. How has your organization expanded beyond hospice care?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The reward for our patients and care team is priceless.” The post Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care appeared first on Hospice News. The return is not only monetary, it is emotional and physical. It is both qualitative and quantitative.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Court documents allege that while awaiting trial in this matter, Palma took control of three other hospices and caused the submission of approximately $4.8 million in claims for purported hospice care. Hospice Fraud, Kickback Scheme appeared first on Hospice News. In the midst of these activities.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

What do you see as the largest opportunities in hospice care delivery today? How do you foresee these opportunities shaping the outlook of end-of-life care? Having staff that is committed to the vision and mission that we have is very important to delivering a value-based care model.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Their comments carried some common threads, including further movement towards value-based care, a need to secure payment through business-to-business partnerships, a need for more concurrent curative and hospice care, and a continued status quo of insufficient reimbursement.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

National hospice utilization rates have hovered around this vicinity for the past decade, with 44% of decedents receiving these services in 2010, the Alliance report found. We must be better at positioning hospice care as a part of improving their lives, rather than simply being present at death.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It might make them even fearful about hospice care, which is the last thing we want to see happen. At the same time, [CMS’] implementation misses likely lots of truly poor performing hospices that should be called out and addressed.” Calls for reform This year also saw calls for major reform in the hospice space.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I will strive to improve programs that enable seniors to receive care at home, increase access to new technologies and telemedicine, and reduce red tape that prevents family caregivers from getting the support they need. Steve Landers in a statement shared with Hospice News. The post New HHS Secretary RFK Jr.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

However, when a veteran transitions from a VA facility to hospice, they lose access to that benefit. This is even the case when hospice care is provided by the VA itself. Gerald’s Law would institute those benefits for those veterans who die in hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Positive outcomes yielded by the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) could be helping to build the case for a Medicare palliative care carve-out, Farrand indicated. Additionally gaining momentum are questions around palliative cares potential in the realm of Medicare value-based payment in a post-VBID era.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2025

What we hear a lot of in the palliative and hospice care workforce is that youre working with patients in a vulnerable, critical time. For some of our residents and fellows this was hugely life-changing, he said. Were really excited to start to tackle all these kinds of systematic forces that make this training difficult.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

The California-based hospice provider in October 2024 received nearly $1.14 The shelter will offer hospice care and other services for terminally ill homeless individuals in need of food, clothing, shelter and end-of-life care. million in philanthropic funding to launch the shelter.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2025

Her experience of seeing her now ex-husbands stepmother die in hospice care led her to enter the field. I decided to tell a story about a hospice patient [on TikTok], and I’ve always been a very passionate advocate for hospice and educating and normalizing death and dying. McFadden currently has more than 3.5

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The center is named after Dottie Dorion, a leading donor for the project and founding member of Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, which later rebranded as Community Hospice & Palliative Care. Dorion is an advocate in the hospice space and has led lobbying efforts at the Florida State Capitol.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The company is the longest operating nonprofit hospice care provider in southeastern North Carolina and the second largest hospice provider in the state. Patients should have access to a palliative care provider early following a diagnosis of a serious illness, according to stakeholders.

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