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2 Tailwinds Shaping Hospice Growth, Care Delivery

Hospice News

The nations health care system is ripe for change when it comes to improved hospice utilization that could help curb expenditures and improve outcomes, Jackson said during Hospice News 2025 Industry Outlook webinar. This is a rise from Medicare hospice expenditures that reached $23.7 billion in 2022, Medicare (MedPAC) reported.

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Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs

Hospice News

“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. Some value-based payment models incorporate palliative care elements.

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How Regulation Could Shape the Future of Telehealth in Palliative Care

Hospice News

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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How Hospice Labor Pressures Can Impact Regulatory Compliance

Hospice News

These respondents said that they often experienced “difficulty prioritizing compliance over patient care.” “An These data points can raise red flags for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractors and frequently lead to audits.

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3 Ways Hospices Are Managing Rising Costs of Care Delivery

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) raised hospice per diems by 3.8% Related to workforce issues, [providers are seeing] increased costs related to management fees, outsourcing of work, recruitment and staff retention, reduced productivity and lost revenue related to staff turnover,” said Forster during a recent NAHC webinar.

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The Path to Successfully Navigating OASIS-E, Begin With the End in Mind!

Home Care Pulse

What do you want for the patients you serve? Would you be surprised to learn that the data you collect via OASIS is used to improve overall patient care by incentivizing best practices and enabling payment based on best outcomes rather than volume of services? What are CMS’s goals? Do they align with yours? What is new?

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Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth

Home Care Pulse

Melissa Mendez ( 00:12 ): Welcome to vision the home care leaders podcast. Melanie Stover owner of home care sales. And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And that was awesome.