Hospice News
JANUARY 24, 2025
Hospices that have palliative care service lines may be better poised for growth in the merger and acquisition landscape compared to others. In bringing a hospice to market, it is 100% of the time a question that comes from all potential suitors is do they have a palliative care program, Kulik told Palliative Care News.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
The Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, currently winding its way through Congress, would likely increase access to hospice and palliative care for veterans, if enacted. However, when a veteran transitions from a VA facility to hospice, they lose access to that benefit.
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Hospice News
APRIL 30, 2024
Given the significance of family caregivers in hospice care, providers can benefit from having tools to assess whether or not they are experiencing burnout. Without assistance or relief, these difficulties can impede access to hospice and other types of home-based care. There’s a very high number of U.S.
Hospice News
JANUARY 3, 2025
Interdisciplinary palliative care delivery can help to improve quality and health disparities among underserved cancer patient populations, according to oncology specialists. Barrett is also the associate director of community outreach and engagement at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptists Office of Cancer Health Equity. Theres a huge gap there.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
health care is moving steadily towards value-based reimbursement, and having a robust palliative care program can help hospices ensure they are not left behind. This may be even more the case now that the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID), often called the Medicare Advantage Hospice Carve-In, is ending on Dec.
Hospice News
JANUARY 8, 2025
Palliative care also is often conflated with hospice even among health care providers, and the misconceptions pose barriers for patients who could benefit from these services, she stated. Patients with serious mental illnesses (SMI) have a range of complex needs that greater integration of psychiatry into palliative care could help address.
Hospice News
AUGUST 7, 2024
Hospice reimbursement trends influence palliative care payment and delivery. Among the significant changes coming this year is the end of the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model, as of Dec. The North Carolina-based hospice, home health and palliative care provider is part of the Liberty Health system. “The
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