Hospice News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Palliative care providers have explored diverse routes to improve quality and access to their services in 2024. The topics spanned evolving reimbursement trends, innovative care delivery partnerships and research examining the biggest barriers among undeserved populations.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Palliative care providers that form collaborative partnerships with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may be lending to a landmark downward trend in health care spending in the value-based payment landscape. million patients annually.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Lower Cape Fear LifeCare has opened the first free-standing palliative medicine clinic in southeastern North Carolina. The LifeCare Center for Palliative Medicine will provide outpatient palliative care to patients experiencing serious illness. It will also accept referrals from other physicians in the community. “As

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Serious and terminally ill children and their families often have limited options when it comes to pediatric hospice, respite and palliative care. The campaign has since grown to include 40 palliative and hospice programs across 27 states. A national public awareness program is seeking to change this trend.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Julia Frydman, senior medical director at Nashville-based Thyme Care, runs its palliative care wing. She believes palliative care may be inoculated against that industry trend. Seen in that light, the support Frydman has seen for palliative care programs makes sense.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Palliative Care News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most pressing market forces and trends that will shape the space during 2025. They also spoke about the need for greater integration of palliative care into the larger health care continuum. Heath Bartness, CEO, St.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Pennant Group has been quietly building palliative care programs driven by its local leaders with support from the corporate offices Service Center. Pennants Service Center also facilitates education in palliative care for local leaders and provides, including courses from the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Palliative care has been at the forefront of several research efforts in 2024, with findings increasingly pointing to the value proposition of these services when it comes to cost savings and quality. These are just two examples in a growing body of research oriented around palliative care and quality.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Montana-based Headwaters Hospice and Palliative Care LLC will soon unveil a new palliative care service line, set to launch later this year. We have kind of married our health care experience with the structure and accountability of our founders having a military background, Brown told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

A key component of palliative care is understanding that chronic conditions may not be cured, but rather need to be managed, sometimes for many years. William Collins, associate director of the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

The future of palliative care payment is reaching an uncertain, but potentially promising time in the Medicare landscape. Palliative care models have been gaining traction in terms of demonstrating cost savings and improved quality for several years running, Farrand said.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2025

While community-based palliative care is important for many patients, many providers may consider it to be a financial challenge. An additional seven more are considering or implementing community-based palliative care programs: Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, New York, South Carolina, Washington.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Access was the watchword in the palliative care community during 2024, as providers sought more ways to reach the right patients at the right time. The following are the most-read Palliative Care News articles of 2024. Laws vary across states, with some allowing for greater therapeutic use than others.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2025

Risk-based contracts may be the future of palliative care reimbursement as Medicare Advantage continues to ascend. The simple term value-based care belies its complexity. The term can refer to any number of payment models that are designed to reduce total cost of care and improve outcomes.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

NYSE: HUM) and Thyme Care promises to expand access to palliative care among the oncology care companys patient population. The value-based agreement contracts Thyme Care with Humana Medicare Advantage plans, giving them access to their beneficiaries. A new partnership between Humana Inc.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A recent research project that combined palliative care with dementia care management reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations by half among its patient population. The post IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50% appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

cut for 2025 in physician payment rates used to reimburse palliative care care practitioners, among other professionals. Fee-for-service Medicare continues to pay for the bulk of palliative care delivered to seniors in the United States, using the rates established in the physician fee schedule final rule.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

Global Partners in Care (GPIC) and Elea Institute have formed a partnership designed to extend access to palliative care services worldwide. The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Navigating the nuanced differences of adult versus pediatric palliative care delivery can be a challenging feat for seriously ill youths as they age and transition between these two realms. Karlin is also palliative care medical director at UCLA Healths Palliative Care Program.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The trend represents significant unmet needs that some say palliative care providers are well-positioned to fill. These are just some of the areas that palliative care teams could help to improve. Palliative care providers are really poised to help improve quality of life for both the recipient and their caregiver.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recent studies have established a dire need for palliative care in rural areas, and the state of Michigan is no stranger to this situation. In the current phase of the project, Stratis will be training MCRH staff to apply their framework for implementing palliative care programs in the target areas.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

University of Connecticut Health (UConn) John Dempsey Hospital is expanding its palliative care program, including a new outpatient clinic. The UConn health system first invested in outpatient palliative care eight years ago at the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

Potential is mounting for deeper integration of palliative care delivery across the continuum, with some health care settings better poised than others for evolving opportunities. The Washington-based provider offers adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, grief support and senior living services.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

A palliative training program for emergency department staff in 29 hospitals did not reduce hospital admissions, a recent study found. Through PRIM-ER, emergency department clinicians received training in palliative care, simulation-based communication workshops, clinical decision support tools and audit and feedback.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2025

Palliative psychiatry care approaches can be key to improving quality of life among patients with severe and persisting mental illness (SPMI). However, a lack of standardized quality measures for these care models is challenging the ability to measure efficacy. At the moment, palliative psychiatry is an idea.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Some patients wish to seek out alternative medicine therapies while receiving palliative care, and providers can benefit from understanding the nature and possible outcomes of these interventions, recent research has found. Trust, patient preferences, and adaptability are key for palliative care teams.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Low palliative care utilization is associated with higher risk of mental health challenges among patients with pancreatic cancer, recent research found. Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2025

Workforce growth and referral relationship development are among the most significant determinants of sustainability and scale in the palliative care space. Having sufficient staff is key to building a palliative care program, according to Dr. Kerry Moss, palliative care medical director for Connecticut Children’s.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Though the numbers are still relatively low, spending on early palliative care rose between 2010 and 2019 for patients with advanced cancers, a recent study found. Early palliative care billing increased to 10.36%, up from 1.44% among 102,032 patients who received treatment from nearly 19,000 unique physicians.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Palliative care clinicians in health systems can apply research to lobby administrators for additional resources. Palliative care’s reputation grew during the pandemic, with more patients and health care organizations recognizing its benefits and value. and spiritual care providers during the pandemic. “The

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. The nation lacks a sufficient supply of palliative care professionals amid a swelling population of seriously ill patients, driving up demand.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

Research into value-based care has been gaining momentum in its ability to demonstrate the benefits of palliative care delivery. A growing body of value-based care research has allowed for greater insight into patient preferences, Doherty said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Researchers have increasingly dug into the quality impacts of virtual palliative care delivery and how telehealth outcomes compare to in-person care. The study found no differences in caregiver satisfaction when receiving virtual versus in-person palliative services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Des Moines, Iowa-based WesleyLife at Home has launched the areas first home-based palliative care program. While analyzing their home health census, the organization identified a significant number of patients with chronic medical conditions who required an additional level of care. The goal is to eliminate barriers to care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Delivering goal concordant care has been the largest strategic lever to its growth. The health system provides pediatric palliative care, as well as primary, urgent and virtual care, behavioral health, cancer treatments and a range of other services. Both entities operate multiple hospitals across Michigan.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

Federal lawmakers recently allocated millions of dollars to fuel palliative care research efforts. The move is anticipated to expand palliative education and career development opportunities as demand rises in coming years. Introduced in July 2023 , the appropriation included $12.5 The appropriations also allocated $302.47

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Palliative care clinical recruitment involves some unique elements compared to other health care settings. Among the challenges is a general lack of awareness of palliative care and its distinctions from hospice among the public, clinicians in other settings and payers. Palliative care is relatively a new field.

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