Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Having an adaptable approach to compliance is key in an evolving hospice regulatory environment. Heightening oversight has focused on hospice program integrity efforts, as well as increased auditing activity , changes in rules for hospice sales and financial penalties tied to quality reporting measures. It’s not a static issue.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

ACOs are groups of physicians, hospitals and other health care providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high-quality care to their Medicare patients. You have this payment for value, not necessarily payment for bundles or episodes of care, but really the value,” Banach told Palliative Care News in a recent webinar.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2023

Language in the 2024 proposed rule for the Medicare hospice program gives some indication of where the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is heading when it comes to quality measurement requirements. Historically, about 18% of Medicare-certified hospices are found non-compliant, according to Wehri.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model will begin its third year on Jan. Often called the MA hospice carve-in , the voluntary demonstration is designed to assess payer and provider performance related to hospice within Medicare Advantage (MA).

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

Industry-wide staffing woes are bleeding into hospices’ compliance programs. Many hospices are struggling not only operationally, but also financially to comply with regulations, according to Norbert Hudak, partner at in90Group, a Los Angeles-based business marketing and strategy development company. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration will include elements designed to promote health equity in 2023. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that health equity will be a key component of their payment model demonstrations going forward. “Health outcomes are unequal.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“One of the primary reasons that there is limited access is the fact that we don’t have a clear definition of who qualifies for palliative care,” Booker told Hospice News during the Palliative Executive Webinar Series. What are the clinical components that we’re looking for in a patient? What are the guidelines?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Among the most common misconceptions about palliative care is that these services are often conflated with hospice as support received at the end of a person’s life. Palliative isn’t hospice, you want them to be different programs,” Dedes told Palliative Care News during the Hospice News Sales & Marketing webinar series.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Hospices have historically represented the biggest cohort of the palliative care provider mix since the field emerged in the United States during the 1980s. I see the outlook as strengthening the presence of palliative medicine in the health care field,” Fisher said during the Hospice News Sales & Marketing webinar series. “A

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Technology, cost control, and family caregiver support have emerged as cost-saving strategies as headwinds mount for hospice providers. Efficiency has become a watchword in the hospice space. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) raised hospice per diems by 3.8% While we believe the 3.8%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Along with Medicare Advantage, ACOs are one of the few avenues towards more robust reimbursement than fee-for-service models. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced plans to ensure that 100% of Medicare beneficiaries become aligned with an accountable care entity.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Though hospice deal volume dipped in 2022 compared to previous years, five particular transactions could paint a larger picture of where investors see value in the space. These interesting, unusual or groundbreaking deals could signal what’s to come in 2023 and help shape the hospice market’s long-term future. This was Humana Inc.’s

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed palliative care providers to perform patient care visits virtually. Medicare claims can also be one way regulators gain insight into potential misuse of telehealth services, she said at the C-TAC-CAPC Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. During the pandemic, the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Amid intensified regulatory scrutiny, staffing headwinds and shifts towards value-based care, hospices need to ensure that they’ve made a strong commitment to quality and to foster a positive workplace culture, according to hospice leaders. You have better care outcomes,” Molosky said during the Hospice News 2024 Outlook Webinar.

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Hospice News

APRIL 14, 2023

Nevertheless, hospices have played a “major part” in the development of palliative care thus far and will have an important role guiding further innovation, according to Robin Stawasz, program development executive at Acclivity Health. Medicare Advantage a prime mover For now, both sides are focused on MA.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A main barrier to palliative care growth in the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in is a lack of understanding of these services among beneficiaries, as well as inconsistent service delivery. The post Lack of Awareness Challenging Palliative Care’s Plight in the Hospice VBID Landscape appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Person-centered care is becoming increasingly important in all care settings, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continues to prioritize value-based care and individual care outcomes. In hospice care, this approach is in some ways even more crucial due to the nature of serving each individual at the end of his or her life.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Susan Mills, Senior Program Director for Home Health and Hospice, ACHC, to talk about the key compliance challenges, opportunities and trends to watch in the current hospice environment. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today?

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

– A Hospice CEO’s First Reactions. A Hospice CEO’s First Reactions. The audit focuses on beneficiary eligibility for hospice services in the absence of a recent hospital encounter. Hospice industry leaders routinely find themselves responding to new or changing regulatory oversight. – Michah’s Story Begins.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

She’s got a deep background in both home health and hospice, uh, from both a visiting nurse perspective, and then also management in both of those. So the Oasis is the data tracker for cms that every patient who has Medicare as their primary, primary insurance has to have on file. Don’t panic at Medicare.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

Melanie has previously been on several webinars with us here at HCP and I’m honored to have you on today before we jump into our discussion today, Melanie, can you give our listeners a little snippet about yourself and home care sales? Melissa Mendez ( 00:12 ): Welcome to vision the home care leaders podcast. And that was awesome.

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HEALTHCARE first

JANUARY 31, 2022

Medicare has announced several changes to data available on Care Compare in 2022. Most recently, the CAHPS Hospice Survey Star Ratings is anticipated to debut August 2022.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Issues of fraud in the hospice industry echo events that previously affected the home health space, and providers can learn from that prior experience. This is according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), who spoke Thursday in a Relias webinar.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Four national hospice and senior care industry groups have called on Congress and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make regulatory and legislative changes to instill stronger program integrity safeguards. A lot of eyes are looking at hospice at this point in time.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Well, for anyone who is around in home health in 1998, <laugh> Dinosaur years, um, Medicare did one of its reimbursement cuts. But the, this webinar will be recorded and we’ll distribute it, and we’ll also ask and distribute a copy of the report for free to everybody, uh, that participates today. So I was let go.

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Hospice News

APRIL 14, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving towards the development of health equity quality measures for hospices. Last year, the agency convened a technical expert panel (TEP) to study the issue, according to language in its 2024 proposed hospice rule.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Hospices are wading through uncertain regulatory waters when it comes to infection control and prevention measures tied to the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11. This is the second of a three-part series by Hospice News that examines what hospices need to know about the changing regulatory conditions.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Payer Sources: Private HMO insurance plan through Alice’s job Medicare as Alice became eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare when she was diagnosed with ALS. If not, your patients may end up struggling to ensure all the bills are paid. Alice receives care for her ALS at a specialized ALS clinic.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). This start date reflected the timing of CDC’s webinar for its intended release of its 2016 Guideline (2, 3), while the end date preceded a decision by CDC on the final form for its 2022 Revised Opioid Guideline (6, 7).

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

And I think, you know, we, we come on these webinars, we listen, you know, to the industry leaders. Now, for those of us in home care, you know, we know original Medicare is not a payer for us. This comes at a, a high heavy price tag too at nms estimated cost to Medicare of 26 billion. Absolutely. It’s a buzz.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Masked and physically-distanced, the Board reflected on the challenges of the past year and a half, and the opportunities for innovation to connect the hospice and palliative care community while living in a world of uncertainty. . Magno Distinguished Hospice Physician Award – John Manfredonia, DO HMDC FACOFP FAAHPM .

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The auditing environment has heated up in the hospice industry, with inconsistencies reportedly proliferating among the various types of regulatory enforcement activity — particularly those performed by Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs). The issue has some hospice providers delving deeper into a range of compliance strategies.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It was a fantastic opportunity for us to understand what this would look like under Medicare. Maybe it wasn’t a slip of the tongue there, a lot of thread of hospice in there. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. ” Back then, they were called Medicare Plus Choice.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Hospices are facing a sea of uncertainties in the wake of Wednesday’s presidential election results. Top issues to address Hospice and home health providers are traversing through many uncertainties as the impacts of the election results unfold, said Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of the senior care advocacy group LeadingAge.

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