Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Unified Program Integrity Contractor (UPIC) auditors are taking a sharper look at nursing home room-and-board for hospice patients. Hospices have increasingly faced more regulatory scrutiny in recent years amid rising program integrity concerns, including ramped up UPIC audits , among various others.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In addition to concurrent care, LeadingAge urged Congress and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to modify rules for the four levels of hospice care, foster greater interoperability, examine nursing home relationships and other changes. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) is drafting a landmark bill that, if enacted, would represent the most significant reforms to date for hospice payment and oversight. Blumenauer announced the bill, the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, on Thursday at the Hospice News Elevate conference in Washington D.C.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

clinical power means mastering timely initiation of care. 30% of home health patients dont get initiated into care for seven days as an industry, we have to look at those numbers and decide, as leaders, its unacceptable, Compassus CEO Mike Asselta said last month during a panel discussion at the Home Care 100 conference.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2023

Patient preferences are trending towards home-based hospice care, leaving some inpatient facilities between a rock and a hard place. Meanwhile, other hospices diversify and expand their inpatient service capabilities. Shifting care preferences are another driving force behind the closure, according to MercyOne.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

This would bring the hospice rules in line with those used in long term care. GAO determined that under current rules abuse reports from hospices may be less complete or timely than those from nursing homes and hospitals. Most of these acts are committed by others in an older adult’s household, according to GAO.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Hosparus Health Hosparus Health Hosparus CEO David Cook Baptist Health Deaconess Hospice launched in 1993, initially branded as Green River Hospice. In 2021, more than 22,000 Medicare decedents elected hospice care in Kentucky. The post Hosparus Acquires Baptist Health Deaconess Hospice appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

By the Bay Health partners with Dominican University, where Hoang received his nursing degree, to foster more opportunities for clinical education in hospice and palliative care. Hoang had a longstanding interest in hospice care. Castleberry worked harder than many to become a hospice nurse.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

The researchers took into account the number of veterans who had received a palliative care encounter during the 30-day period after an acute inpatient hospital stay at either a VA hospital or VA-paid stay at a community hospital. For instance, the VA allows patients to receive hospice care concurrently with other medical treatments.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

However, stakeholders in the hospice space contend that the increase is insufficient in light of continued inflation, interest rates, staffing shortages and wage hikes. To continue providing the high level of care our patients and their families deserve, hospices require a payment rate that accurately reflects the current economic challenges.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

increase in home-based care delivery. After an acquisition by a public company, hospices saw a 1.4% HCC scores are designed to predict the costs associated with a patient’s care. Patients with lower HCC scores often need hospice care for longer periods of time, though their care needs may be less intensive or complex.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

They enrolled patients with long-term incurable diseases such as Alzheimers and dementia as well as patients with limited mental capacity who lived at group homes, nursing homes and in housing projects.” Roughly 70% to 85% of Merida’s patients were ineligible for the hospice care they received, according to prosecutors.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Set to open this summer, the hospice facility will feature 15 patient beds at Lourdes Senior Community in Waterford, Michigan. Expanding hospice care in the senior community will allow for improved support and care collaboration, according to Angela Hospice President and CEO Marti Coplai.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

“A lot of providers are trying not to make any irrevocable decisions, because it is a strange time with nothing as it was,” Ponder-Stansel told Hospice News. There’s a lot less demand for facility-based general inpatient care and more demand for continuous home hospice care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The archdiocese in August announced an agreement to exit from all affiliated senior care businesses, including the health system. CommCare’s purchase of Notre Dame’s home health and hospice operations marks the transaction of this divestiture Its nursing home services are next in line as part of a separate deal set to close in 2023.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

The program will serve chronically ill seniors aged 55 and older who are certified by the state of Florida to need a nursing home level of care and are able to live safely in the home and community. “Me Empath Health Empath Health Empath LIFE cuts the ribbon on its new Tampa PACE center.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Behind the changes is a desire to increase response rates, which have been declining.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

“Overall hospice and end of life care was given too little consideration and disaster management policies and actions have been enacted by the larger response community,” Baker Rogers said. They were at best insufficiently supportive and at worst partially obstructive to provision of hospice care in disasters.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

The acquisition presents opportunities for Elara Caring to fill gaps between its adjacent markets in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Established in 1986, Assisted Daily Living provides skilled home care, personal care and private duty services in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout Rhode Island.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

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. Lindsay Nixon, administrator at Arbor Hospice, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

. “In our NHE accounting, you will find spending on palliative care or hospice care in the hospital, nursing home and home health care sectors. We do not have projections at the level of detail of hospice-specific care for all payers for the NHE accounts.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“We found that hospice enrollees in MA had substantially different hospice use patterns, with greater enrollment from community settings, compared with their counterparts in [traditional Medicare],” the authors wrote. million patients who elected hospice in the last 90 days of life during the years 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2024

But what I will tell you is that there are programs in place where if the applicants go through the process and certify to CMS that they have a program that will service the needs of a community when it comes to hospice care — and they are able to meet the standards — that we will certify them to be able to provide hospice care,” Becerra said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities. ALC Hospice Care Names COO.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

What is our role as hospice and palliative care providers in advocating for high-quality hospice care? If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Before coming to Hosparus in 2021, Cook led an organization in North Carolina that offered both hospice and PACE. I was interested in PACE services just because of the similarity that it has to hospice care and the need that it fills, often for some of the poor folks in a community.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care. CMS that year reduced routine home care (RHC) rates by 2.7% and increased amounts for continuous home care, general inpatient care, and inpatient respite care by the same percentage.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

VITAS saw nursing home admissions rise 9.4% and home-based admissions also dipped 7.5%. VITAS launched the initiative in an effort to improve timely access to hospice care. For some of those other metrics, results were mixed for both Q4 and full-year 2022. in Q4, along with a 2.7% VITAS reached 103.9

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Meanwhile, lawmakers unveiled a bill with some of the most significant reforms proposed to date for hospice payment and oversight. Dubbed as the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, the bill has ignited conversations across the industry about future sustainability, growth and program integrity.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

Accord has staged other performances at nursing homes and senior living facilities, and in school buildings and other community spaces that have enough room for the actors and audience. Sue Ann Harnetiaux, each saw both their parents pass away in hospice care. It brought in “a good-size crowd,” according to Turner.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

The provider’s executive team combines Fluhart’s business experience with the clinical expertise brought by Hughes, a nurse practitioner herself. We’re growing pretty exponentially right now, especially in skilled facilities like nursing homes and such. PalliCare is growing fast, and its co-founders are not slowing down.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

While working in family medicine, hospitals and nursing homes, he started “moonlighting” in hospice, which ultimately took his career in a new direction. They had taken the multi-disciplinary approach to care and brought that all under one roof to address what it is to be human in the dying process.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

When were looking at the near-term future for home health, the words I offer to anybody are increased oversight. Its a yin and yang of those things that keep hospices up at night and also wake them up in the morning. It was what might have been considered as a first-line action that should occur to ensure quality of care.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2024

The fact that hospice even exists is a recognition that this is a needed modality of care. People are not introduced to palliative or hospice care early enough, or not at all. The hospice movement in general is moving it more upstream. Calvary has an acute care hospital in the Bronx, another 25 beds in Brooklyn.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. But the prevalence of mental health conditions and related concerns like isolation and substance abuse mean that hospice and behavioral health providers may need to find more ways to integrate their services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Patients will receive 24/7 care at the six-bed hospice facility, which features private patient rooms, a living room space, kitchen, large dining area, office area and a serenity garden. Our focus must be on providing all residents of Caroline county with exceptional hospice care, supportive care and grief support services.”.

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