Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2025

Among the numerous tactics that unscrupulous hospices use to commit fraud, three are rising to the forefront. These regions have seen swarms of new hospices emerging and receiving Medicare dollars. Flying low is probably one of the most important pieces of this, Lund Person told Hospice News at the conference.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Care coordination between providers: Thyme Care coordinates with a members oncologist, primary care physician and other specialists to ensure everyone has the right information at the right time to make informed care decisions. A new partnership between Humana Inc. The company offers palliative care in addition to other services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2025

Stymied Medicaid reimbursement for nursing home room and board could threaten access to care for hospice patients in California and possibly other states. When caring for patients in nursing homes, hospices typically pay for their room and board with the expectation that they will be reimbursed by Medicaid for those expenses.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. The organization became an affiliate of the Indiana-based provider Center for Hospice Care in 2017.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and Jimmy Panetta (D-California) have introduced a bill that would reform aspects of the hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). If enacted, the Enhancing Hospice Oversight and Transparency Act also would increase the penalty for hospices that do not report quality measure data to 10% by 2027, up from 4% currently.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2025

Underserved patient populations are facing a growing deficit when it comes to accessing quality, inclusive hospice care at the end of life. When we look specifically at hospice, we still have a lot of gaps to close [and] we continue to see two significant disparities, Bloom said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Florida.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

The hospice industry is undergoing a transformative period of rising demand and regulatory changes. Levy recently sat down with Hospice News to discuss the array of regulatory and legislative evolutions on the horizon in hospice care delivery. I was promoted chief government affairs officer in 2023.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Hospices see improved quality and operational efficiency as their biggest return on technology investments in three key areas. Keeping pace with the evolving technology landscape can be pivotal for hospices sustainability as rising demand pressurizes workforces, Pathek indicated. Croix Hospice.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Among the significant pieces to the sustainability equation is offering a range of person-centered pediatric care services, according to Dr. Bradd Hemker, pediatric hospice and palliative care physician at Corewell Health. Corewell Health Childrens also has a fellowship program that trains hospice and palliative pediatric clinicians.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Shaarawy provides internal and family medicine, palliative care and hospice services and operates a private practice in Canoga Park, California. Shaarawy denied allegations that he had any affiliation or managerial control with Valley Pacific Hospice, which according to the allegations posed “undue risk” of Medicare fraud, waste and abuse.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2025

The barometer is falling in hospice care delivery. Adaptability is a providers hallmark in todays current hospice landscape, according to Greg Wood, executive director at Hospice of the Ozarks. Hospice of the Ozarks also has a veterans program and offers pet therapy services. DBA Hope HealthCare Services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Some patients wish to seek out alternative medicine therapies while receiving palliative care, and providers can benefit from understanding the nature and possible outcomes of these interventions, recent research has found. Alternative medicine includes any of a range of medical therapies that are not regarded as orthodox by the medical profession.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Several executives are stepping into new roles at hospice organizations across the country as the new year draws near. Brand was previously senior vice president of hospice and palliative care at New York-based VNS Health, holding a similar role at CareCentrix prior to that. Nasdaq: PNTG). million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Improved patient and staff satisfaction are among the most significant returns on investment for hospices that are pouring greater resources into trauma-informed training. This is according to Amber Ash, pediatric hospice and palliative care social worker at Ohio-based Hospice of the Western Reserve.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Colorado-based hospice provider collaborative Care Synergy has formed a joint venture with RCC Medical Equipment Co. Care Synergy emerged in 2021 as a regional collaborative of hospice companies. Care Synergy emerged in 2021 as a regional collaborative of hospice companies. This includes patients of Care Synergys affiliates.

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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. But things that we didn’t understand were palliative actually are services many hospices are providing to communities.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2024

Efforts to establish potential payment mechanisms for high-acuity palliative services within the Medicare Hospice Benefit will require greater clarity from regulators, according to the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). This could result in deepening conflation of hospice and palliative care, the organization indicated. “We

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million. Palliative care has always kind of sat in the shadows of hospice. Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Parents and guardians frequently experience feelings of stress, anxiety and becoming overwhelmed, issues that pediatric palliative care providers can do better in alleviating, according to Eddie Belluomini, COO of 1Care Hospice & 1Care Kids based in Nevada. Expanding that education and awareness is a pivotal starting point, he added.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

The agency’s findings will likely inform the development of future payment models as the U.S. This could include demos that fuse palliative care into Accountable Care Organization (ACO) or primary care programs, among others, Ellen Lukens, deputy director of CMMI said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Greater training and awareness around gender inclusivity is needed among palliative care providers to improve their understanding how to care for underserved transgender populations, Fried said during the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference. Furthermore, 85.3% Furthermore, 85.3%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 20, 2024

New York state’s new Center for Hospice and Palliative Care recently launched with an aim to increase utilization and goal-concordant outcomes among swelling aging populations in the Empire State. Kathy Hochul approved a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

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. Hospice providers need the opportunity to reflect the full scope of care provided to patients experiencing serious illness.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

Vicki Jackson, board president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), noted that palliative care has demonstrated a positive impact on patient-reported outcomes across various illnesses, including cancer, heart, liver, kidney disease and dementia.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

The health care space — including hospice — is increasingly shaped by numbers. During the past several years hospice providers have had to become experts in data management in order to remain competitive. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

We combined our administrative claims data, our predictive modeling output and basically a template that we could use to prompt AI to pretend as if it was a nurse practitioner and synthesize all the information at the member-specific level,” Carlin Brickner, vice president of data Science at VNS Health, told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. It will serve as a hospice and palliative care “education and training hub” for patients, families, providers, and other stakeholders, according to the HAP Foundation. The HAP Foundation has officially begun operations.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

A majority of palliative care and hospice clinicians feel unprepared to discuss medical cannabis with their patients. Researchers from Harvard University surveyed 123 hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) fellows regarding their familiarity with medical cannabis.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Providing palliative care through ACO relationships can result in greater potential to address patients’ full scope of medical, non-medical and psychosocial needs further upstream in their illness trajectories, Fleece stated, speaking at the recent Hospice News Palliative Care Virtual Summit.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. Some states offer hospice- and palliative care-themed license plates or designate an official Hospice and Palliative Care Awareness Month.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec. Often called the “hospice carve-in,” the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, in addition to some coverage of palliative care and transitional care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Adding any new form of coverage to Medicaid takes a substantial commitment of time and resources, including investing and designing the benefit, building out the information technology infrastructure and, critically, securing the federal approvals and financial participation necessary to reduce state costs.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

At the crux is a lack of awareness of these state-funded programs, Fields said at Hospice News’ Palliative Care News Conference in Tampa, Florida. Having access to it is one thing, but getting the information is another,” Keith said at the Palliative Care Conference. But questions proliferate around how to shape these programs.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC ) conducted the research on public perceptions of palliative care. An assessment of current palliative care awareness in the United States is needed to inform the health care sector’s improving palliative care communication and delivery.” study indicated.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

Hospices combat both operational and financial challenges as they seek to grow and evolve their veteran programs around the diverse and complex needs of patients and their families. I think that’s a challenge that a lot of hospices run into.” Graveran is also a veteran.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its proposed 2025 hospice rule featured a series of request for information (RFIs) that included questions about the utilization of higher-cost palliative treatments within the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Patients most commonly reported symptom relief of abdominal pain.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth. McDonald is a hospice and palliative care physician at HopeHealth. Photo courtesy of HopeHealth.

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