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

JANUARY 29, 2025

Saint Martin cited the importance of educating providers about palliative care: A grand round of no-cost webinars will cover this need and provide continuing education credits. The post Michigan Center for Rural Health Working to Expand Rural Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

Hospice providers are growing increasingly concerned about how state laws related to transgender rights may impede access to their services among LGBTQ+ communities. It’s not difficult to imagine that transgender individuals living in those states may be hesitant to seek hospice care,” told Hospice News in an email. “If

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Providers see sustainability and expanded service growth as main draws to participating in the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recent webinar. On the hospice side, we conducted interviews of both in- and out-of-network hospices in VBID.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

Care coordination and quality data will be engines for hospice referral growth. Hospices saw census volumes drop during the COVID-19 public health emergency as facilities nationwide restricted access to patients amid mandated state closures. Now it’s part of our mantra that good care is directly linked to good communication.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

“At Mount Sinai we’re really good at creating new models and proving they work to improve care for the sickest patients with serious illness,” Goldstein told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series. The post Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

What some hospices are referring to as “on-demand payroll systems” have become a way for employers to get creative financially without stretching their bottom lines too thin. Singer River owns Hospice of Light, which has two locations in the state. “We DailyPay provides payroll services to health care and hospice employers nationwide.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

VITAS Launches New Florida Location VITAS Healthcare has opened a new location in Florida, expanding the hospice provider’s footprint in its home state. The location will serve as a hub for staff providing hospice services across Pasco County, where seniors 65 and older represent 21.8% Dozier Hospice House.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Hospices that are shaping their recruitment and retention strategies around work-life balance and career development have a fighting chance against competitors for sparse clinical staffing resources. The reality of the situation is right now there are just not enough fish in the pond,” Seabrook said during the 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. Provisions of the proposed rule would also increase penalties for failing to report data to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP). Currently, associated penalties are 2%.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

“Specifically, access to qualified hires was frequently at the top for pediatric programs,” Rachael Heitner, associate director of research and insights at CAPC, stated in a recent webinar highlighting the survey’s findings. The post Clinical Capacity Palliative Care Leaders’ Top Concern for 2025 appeared first on Hospice News.

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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). Because say in three or four years.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2022

Hospice provider Care Dimensions has tapped Dr. Stephanie Patel as its new CEO, upon the retirement of previous top executive Patricia Ahern. Care Dimensions is the largest hospice provider in Massachusetts. Additionally, Patel is a fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and speaks locally and nationally.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Hospices and palliative care providers can collaborate with ACOs by becoming members of those organizations themselves, or by contracting with them through a preferred provider network. The model contains a high-needs track to serve the sickest, most complex patients whom hospice and palliative care providers are well-positioned to serve.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Palliative care and hospice providers are enhancing their staff education programs in an effort to better ensure they have a sustainable workforce. That mentality is playing out in relation to nurse residency programs and the clinicians that we’re hiring,” Brennan told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series.

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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

MAY 15, 2023

Grasping the mix of objective and subjective forces fueling hospice valuations is key to maximizing a return on investment when considering a sale, according to dealmaking experts. Hospice valuations have remained high, partly due to an influx of new investors entering the space. Often, the “devil is in the details,” Garbon said.

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AlayaCare

MAY 15, 2023

AlayaCare sponsored a webinar with HHCN in partnership with MissionCare Collective to share data and insights into why caregivers turn over plus several impactful ways to improve your caregivers’ experience to naturally increase employee retention and engagement, improve client outcomes, and boost revenue and business performance.

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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

APRIL 29, 2022

When Catherine Sapp took the role as executive director of Avita Home Health & Hospice in September 2019, one of the first areas of improvement that she identified was communication. A hospice provider’s need for health care-specific communication tools goes beyond HIPAA compliance. It’s been very helpful in that regard.”.

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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% 3 cost-saving strategies.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The article is based on a webinar hosted by Zaundra Ellis, Vice President of Hospice Solutions at Axxess with input from Cristina Montanez, Care Advocate and Lead Educator at Hospice of the North Coast and Dr. Jennifer Kennedy, VP for Quality and Standards at Community Health Accreditation Program. To learn more, visit: [link].

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

OCTOBER 13, 2023

After this webinar, we plan to conduct a Delphi study to gain an international consensus about how primary care services might best integrate palliative care and update the meaning of the phrase “primary palliative care”. Thus, please do register for the webinar.

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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 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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) in palliative care patients can be an uphill strain on providers’ in today’s current reimbursement climate, Patni said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration will include elements designed to promote health equity in 2023. The four-year program — often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — launched Jan. Switching to the Medicare Hospice Benefit also usually meant transitioning to a new care team.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2024

Marketing and outreach efforts need careful consideration when differentiating how a palliative care program can help address a wide range of patients’ physical, psychosocial, emotional, spiritual and practical needs, Dedes said during the Hospice News Sales & Marketing webinar series. What type of program do you have?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Fierce competition for clinical resources amid widespread workforce shortages has hospices taking nimble approaches to their recruitment strategies, including pivoting financial investments and building stronger educational partnerships. Croix Hospice, a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“When we think about the value-based world, there’s a lot of value to be delivered that maybe is not captured in the fee-for-service world,” Dr. Thomas Lee, vice president of medical affairs for Ennoble Care, told Hospice News. The post Building a Palliative Care-Focused ACO appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

This included the temporary lifting of the requirement that volunteers provide at least 5% of hospice patient care hours. The volunteer requirement has been an important piece of what [hospices] are looking at post-PHE,” Lund Person told Hospice News. CMS will reinstate the rule as of Jan. What does that look like now?”

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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

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. AccentCare, a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For some people who we really can’t reach in other ways, we either need to get ourselves out to their house, or we need to contact them virtually,” Ritzau said during the Hospice News Palliative Care Executive Webinar series. These patients are going to be increasingly difficult to reach and to take care of.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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. In this way, the patient can be viewed as a “partner,” says Jacque Lopez-Devine, RN, and Chief Clinical Officer at national hospice provider Gentiva. What is person-centered care?

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