Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We also only acquire companies who are already leading class in terms of patient care. Good Samaritan Societys hospice program includes pain and symptom management, emotional and spiritual care, palliative care and other home-based services. Growing aging populations are fueling demand for hospice in Texas and nationwide.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Weve demonstrated the ability to partner with and successfully integrate other providers through acquisitions to ensure communities continue to receive the best possible patient care, Westfall said. VITAS adjusted EBITDA, excluding Medicare capitation rates, reached $93.2 million during the fourth quarter, seeing a 11.8%

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

[Its] talking about the value that we bring from the perspective of patient care, and then talk about the plans, the payers, the opportunity to enhance their financial outcomes. This is a rise from Medicare hospice expenditures that reached $23.7 billion in 2022, Medicare (MedPAC) reported. Census Bureau report.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents 52.23% in Texas in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. We found the best partner for Christian Senior Care Services to work with moving forward, said Quintin Faison, founder of Christian Senior Care Services, in a statement. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] and Congress. Those resources that have to be diverted toward responding to audits are ultimately being diverted away from patient care. I served as a quarterback for Amedisys on any regulatory or legislative changes.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2025

The second is delivering excellence in patient care, and the third is to continue to grow across all of our business lines. As we break those down a little bit, first, on the people and culture front, we really strive to provide an environment where people want to come and stay in today’s health care landscape.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

They want concierge care, and thats exactly what were providinga high level of personalized, in-home support for those with chronic medical conditions. The program operates under WesleyLifes hospice umbrella, with a dedicated nurse practitioner and social worker leading patient care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

However, about 50% of community-based palliative care providers are hospices, according to the Center to Advance Palliative Care. Efforts have been underway among health care providers, state governments, advocacy groups and payers, among others, to make community-based palliative care more accessible to patients and families.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

The Medicare Hospice Benefit is ripe for change nearly four decades after its establishment, but moving the needle will include a heavy lift around evolving regulations. This is according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). But hospice has moved into a new era.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is considering administrative action against 400 hospices, which could include revocation of their Medicare certification. As part of this strategy, CMS embarked on a nationwide hospice site visit project, making unannounced site visits to every Medicare-enrolled hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

Prior to joining Family Hospice, Hall most recently served as chief operating officer at Rezolut LLC, where he led a high-growth health care platform, spearheading initiatives that enhanced efficiency, profitability and patient care. No one is what Medicare reimbursement or cuts could look like in the future.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2024

Members of Congress are raising questions about the continued Medicare certification for new hospices in areas rife with fraud. Investigations have shown that potentially hundreds of newly licensed hospices have bilked Medicare of millions of dollars during the past several years, all while providing egregiously poor care or none at all.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

“This settlement reflects our commitment to ensuring that these benefits are used to care for those who need them and not just to enrich those who seek to provide them.” The Justice Department alleges that 19 Intrepid locations between 2016 and 2021 submitted home health Medicare claims for ineligible patients.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has also taken steps to bolster program integrity. Clark County, Nevada, has emerged as an unfortunate case study in how these issues affect patients and families, as well as legitimate operators. What concerns me more is not the competition, it’s about poor patient care.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Commonly known as the “carve-in,” the program was designed to test hospice care coverage through Medicare Advantage, as well as some coverage of palliative care and transitional care. Though the hospice carve-in has ended, a growing number of Medicare Advantage plans cover some form of palliative care, she explained.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is insufficient to support hospice patients’ care needs, a major industry group said. After a moratorium during the pandemic, full Medicare sequestration resumed on July 1, 2022. base payment rate increase recently proposed by the U.S. this year. “In increase.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2022

An overwhelming majority of hospice providers have seen costs of patient care rise 3% to 10% since 2019, and many expect further increases next year. This is prompting calls for Medicare to reconsider proposed 2023 reimbursement rates. . Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reassess the 2.7%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been gradually implementing changes to the hospice survey process and enforcement remedies, including civil monetary penalties in some instances. The monetary penalties were among seven enforcement remedies introduced through the HOSPICE Act and subsequent CMS rules.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) officials. The home-based care community is very fortunate to welcome Dr. Steve Landers as the new CEO of the Alliance,” Westfall told Hospice News in an email. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S.

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JUNE 21, 2024

Mid-Delta Hospice has a very special history and outstanding reputation for delivering exceptional patient care throughout the great state of Mississippi,” Mauricio said. An estimated 19,008 Medicare decedents in the state utilized the hospice benefit in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has put forth to strengthen hospice program integrity mirror rules implemented in years past for home health providers, including medical review processes and rules for when a provider can sell their business. CMS is no doubt hoping for similar results for the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Helios and Basset are also collaborating on the development of a transitional care program for patients with serious or chronic illnesses. In 2021, 48,644 Medicare beneficiaries in New York state elected the hospice benefit, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) program to refocus on expanding its home- and community-based services. Clients are seeing the value in our unique position: our ability to see patients in the home and refer them to care for the urgent needs we identify.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2024 updates to the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model: care coordination, managing health equity-related risks and social determinants of health. Three principles are guiding the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has offered further guidance on what rules will change when the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) ends on May 11. As of May 11, hospices will have to ensure that volunteers provide at least 5% of patient care hours. When the PHE ends, the hotlines will be shut down.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has ramped up auditing activity tied to longer stays and more expensive levels of care such as GIP. Hospices have encountered a variety of audit types as CMS contractors conduct post-payment reviews designed to recoup Medicare funds that may have been overspent.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled in July 2023. The model comes at a time when dementia-related illnesses are on the rise among hospice patients. Caregivers of patients with longer prognoses face difficult emotional challenges, including feelings of guilt, frustration and grief, she stated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2023

A little more than 31,000 Medicare patients in Kansas elected hospice in 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Between October 2021 and September 2022 nearly 50% of eligible patients who reside in the service area for St. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Despite slowed intensity thus far in 2022 compared to previous years, the hospice sector has “remained active” and “still outpaces” other markets in health care, according to a recent report from Bass Berry & Sims. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the U.S. This includes the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. In some instances, multiple hospices have been operating out of the same address without a corresponding increase in the population of eligible patients. This prompted the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

As more hospices engage with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, they may be able to learn from the experiences of some home health providers. Now, many operators are contracting with managed care plans for other service lines, such as palliative care, or they may be participating in the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The organizations voiced “strong support” for extended telehealth utilization, which has helped reduce costs and barriers to quality care, improved timely access and expanded clinical bandwidth, they stated. Extending this flexibility, especially in rural and high-traffic urban areas, will significantly benefit both patients and providers.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

The company has about a dozen different insurance companies in its payer mix, in addition to Medicare and Medicaid. “We On a Part A benefit, you’re getting that benefit from Medicare, so you want to have like 80/20 Medicare versus private payers. We really haven’t come up with the perfect payer mix yet,” he said. “It’s

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Frontpoint, a portfolio company of Cimarron Healthcare Capital and Tacoma Holdings, is an emerging provider of home health, hospice, palliative and personal care with a focus on Medicare Advantage enrollees in Texas markets. Post-transaction, Frontpoint’s service area will reach more than 176 Texas counties.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The 2024 final hospice payment rule included a modest payment increase for general inpatient care (GIP) at a time when regulators are zeroing in on increased utilization and longer stays. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included in the rule a 1.031% increase to hospice GIP services.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Expanding its palliative care business is a rising priority for Amedisys Inc., The company’s palliative care strategy rests on the back of risk-based payment models, primarily Medicare Advantage, Kusserow indicated at the J.P. NASDAQ: AMED) following Chairman Paul Kusserow’s return as CEO. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

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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. Though initially the telehealth waivers weren’t intended to be permanent, they may have lasting impacts on palliative care delivery. During the pandemic, the U.S. In June U.S.

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