Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has signaled its intention to align every Medicare beneficiary with a value-based payment system by 2030. This includes issues like turnover, nurse-to-patient ratios and health care worker burnout, she said. “We So maybe our nurses have patients instead of five.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

David Lovell, its founder and owner, launched the for-profit hospice in 2010, and the enterprise became Medicare-certified in 2012. Tapestry Hospice allegedly paid medical directors to “induce them to refer patients” to their organization in exchange for monthly stipends and signing bonuses for medical directors.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. It has also helped me serve our partners in this space as a National Medical Director for CHAP. This article is sponsored by CHAP.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. Guaranteed serves Medicare and Medicaid patients across five counties in southern California, including the Los Angeles region. Carl Derrick as medical director.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs. Since at least 2022, Contessa has been pursuing palliative care reimbursement through Medicare Advantage.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Meanwhile, Medicare hospice spending is expected to more than double by 2032. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary also project that health care expenditures will represent 19.6% However, the annual Medicare Trustees Report for 2023 provides a more detailed look at hospice spending.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The subsidiary’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs, but in recent years it has also leaned hard into growing its palliative care business. That team includes nurse practitioners, social workers, nurses and community health workers, Baumgardner indicated.

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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). The use of the term ‘palliative’ for treatments in this RFI was problematic.”

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

Payers, including Medicare, like to see providers reduce the costs of care. If you’re able to truncate the number of nursing hours it takes to manage a complex symptom management visit, then the agency saves money; the patient is comfortable, and quality improves.”. Historically, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 2.6% billion in annual savings for Medicare, which underscores the critical importance of investing in hospice to ensure continued beneficiary access to quality end-of-life care.” Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 In a proposed rule released yesterday, the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Contessa’s specialties are high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs. Around this time last year, the company also began contracting directly with Medicare Advantage payers, beginning with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee. million beneficiaries. million beneficiaries.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act would expand utilization of these services by removing Medicare payment barriers faced by both providers and patients. The bill proposes to “wave,” or remove, Medicare beneficiary cost-sharing for advance care planning services. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Muir also has served as the medical director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations’ (CMMI) high-needs Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) program. Whitley joined the organization 29 years ago as a visiting nurse. “I

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I have done everything from bedside nursing to administration, and my last eight years at the agency level were spent as a quality assurance coordinator. Hospice would likely change from the Medical Director-led IDT team with standard COPS, to a landscape of payer-source-driven rules for each patient.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He went on to become the organization’s medical director. “ In addition to his role at Faith Hospice, Mulder is executive director of the Trillium Institute, medical director for Holland Home and the director of the Division of Palliative Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

That group has helped us in interviewing new potential hospice physicians and medical directors as well as helping onboard and create connections. Hospice is a physician-driven benefit with a culture of being a nurse-driven benefit. We can actually have some good insights and directions and be a little bit more nimble.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

By 1995, this had led him in the direction of hospice and palliative care, beginning as a medical director in a small, community-based program in Kentucky. I’m proud that we had a project we did with the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association called Measuring What Matters. Now, Rotella will soon retire from AAHPM.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ramped up auditing activity in the space while also sunsetting the hospice component of its value-based insurance design (VBID) model demonstration ahead of its initial expiration. The financial incentives in Medicare Advantage are designed to reduce overutilization, researchers indicated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

The company was established in concert with his wife, Janet Seebert, director of nursing at Stoneridge Hospice, and his niece, Patti Bratzel, a registered nurse who became co-owner, and executive director. My wife was a nurse in emergency medicine for several years, and my niece was a long-time hospice nurse.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. We’re not going to take the place obviously of a medical director or a certified hospice nurse, but we are going to give them another tool to question their thinking and make sure that what needs to be documented is being documented.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Dr. Dustin Dillon, medical director of palliative care services at Pallitus, said it was important for the palliative care provider to stand on its own. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] has really encouraged provider groups to do. Principal care management is something that [the U.S.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

If you’ve worked long enough as a hospice nurse, then there’s a good chance you’ve had to chart a patient’s hospice recertification. However, did you know that only the hospice medical director can recertify your patient’s eligibility ? appeared first on Hospice Nurse Hero. Yep, you heard me right.

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Traditions Health

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Medicare, Medicaid, and most insurance plans cover hospice care, but you should check with your insurance provider to make sure. However, inpatient hospice facilities, hospitals, and some nursing homes also provide services. To get hospice care, you must stop breast cancer treatment. You will also need a referral from your doctor.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Here is a breakdown of our teams at Seasons Hospice: Medical directors oversee your loved one’s care at Seasons, ensuring they receive care tailored to their needs. Resident nurses (RN) administer medical services depending on your loved one’s needs. Healthcare services. How much will hospice cost?

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The majority of hospice care in the US is covered by Medicare, the federal health insurance program. Medicare will cover: Medical and nursing services. Medical equipment like wheelchairs, walkers, or hospital beds. Prescription drugs for symptom control and pain relief (but not treatment of the disease).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

among Medicare decedents in 2023, up more than two percentage points from the prior year, according to recent data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Total Medicare hospice payments in 2023 reached $25.7 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which is being implemented this year.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

. “By offering heart disease patients the right educational resources, we empower them to take control of their health, Hospice of the Chesapeake Vice President of Medical Affairs & Hospice Medical Director Dr. Sonja Richmond said in a statement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

But some argue that palliative care — which focuses heavily on patients’ own wishes and goals — as a form of personalized medicine, Dr. Bill Logan, national medical director and chief medical officer for Carelon Health, a subsidiary of Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV), said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Tampa, Florida.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Because if I leave you on that heart medicine, that cost anywhere from $1,000 a month up to $20,000 a month, depending on which brand of medication it is,” a hospice nurse speaking on condition of anonymity told Hospice News. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave hospices a 3.1% Everything is based on cost.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

Traditional Medicare only covers physician consults and doesn’t support the full range of interdisciplinary care. Two emerging pathways to payment include supplemental benefits within Medicare Advantage and relationships with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Contributing to these declines were constraints on clinical capacity stemming from the labor shortage, as well as some instances of lower reimbursement for its home health services due to the shift of more patients towards Medicare Advantage, executives said in an earnings call. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Becoming Medicare-certified in April 2023, the hospice served its first patient last June. Owens: We are a home hospice provider and take care of patients wherever they call home, whether it’s with family or in their own home or at a skilled nursing, memory care or assisted living facility. Our volunteer program is particularly robust.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Smith said Prospero’s global measure of success is providing more days for patients at home, rather than keeping them in hospitals, nursing homes or rehab facilities. Reimbursement for palliative care in fee-for-service Medicare currently only covers physician or nurse practitioner services.

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