Hospice News
MARCH 7, 2025
The future of palliative care payment is reaching an uncertain, but potentially promising time in the Medicare landscape. The Alliance has been looking at additional opportunities to provide sustainable reimbursement for palliative care, whether that is through concurrent care approaches or something like a Medicare Care Choices 2.0
Hospice News
JANUARY 31, 2025
However, some organizations have found success with disease-specific programs reimbursed through the Medicare Hospice Benefit. These are essentially hospice programs that are adapted to these particular populations, and they can be paid for via the Medicare benefit.
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Hospice News
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The Chicago-based Elea Institute is seeking to improve public awareness of hospice and palliative care as well as convene discussions about ways to rethink the Medicare benefit. For example, the Medicare Hospice Benefit was initially designed in the 1970s and 80s to serve the needs of cancer patients.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that its Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) yielded more than $2.1 As of January 2024, roughly 480 ACOs are participating in MSSP, which include more than 608,000 clinicians who provide care to nearly 11 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Palliative care providers have explored diverse routes to improve quality and access to their services in 2024. Below are five under-the-radar stories that, while important, didnt make our most read this year. SMI patients with serious physical illnesses often have less access to appropriate medical care and mental health services.
Hospice News
JANUARY 17, 2025
Earl Blumenauers (D-Oregon)] proposal for reform incorporated both payment for some types of palliative care, and aspects of [the Medicare Care Choices Model ] that allowed some care and support prior to hospice election. They also spoke about the need for greater integration of palliative care into the larger health care continuum.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Our philosophy is that palliative care as a whole should be kind of a blanket that goes over all of those things and helps coordinate the care that those patients need across all of those settings, no matter which specialists they’re seeing or which which Medicare defined service line they’re a part of, Walker told Palliative Care News.
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