Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Instant Care provided an extraordinary opportunity to move into non-medical home care in one of the most desirable markets in the United States.”. Veterans programs and managed care organizations also have become more involved in the space. As of 2019, the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Just as the home care industry grows – and AlayaCare itself grows to now more than 200 employees – so too does our signature annual event: Better Outcomes. On behalf of everyone at AlayaCare, thank you for making Better Outcomes 2019 a huge success. The post Better Outcomes 2019: Highlights from our biggest conference yet!

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

DECEMBER 5, 2023

November is National Home Care and Hospice Month, a time to honor the millions of home care professionals who provide essential health care services to patients and families in their homes. Home care and hospice care are vital for many people who face chronic illnesses, disabilities, or terminal conditions.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

November is National Home Care and Hospice Month, a time to honor the millions of home care professionals who provide essential health care services to patients and families in their homes. Home care and hospice care are vital for many people who face chronic illnesses, disabilities, or terminal conditions.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

November is National Home Care and Hospice Month, a time to honor the millions of home care professionals who provide essential health care services to patients and families in their homes. Home care and hospice care are vital for many people who face chronic illnesses, disabilities, or terminal conditions.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 2, 2022

Demand to age in place at home has grown steadily for decades and has spiked over the last few years. Meanwhile, many home care agencies are struggling. And families are facing months-long waitlists for care due to the ongoing caregiver shortage. Policymakers are finally taking note. But what does this mean for providers?

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AlayaCare

JUNE 3, 2022

Demand to age in place at home has grown steadily for decades and has spiked over the last few years. Meanwhile, many home care agencies are struggling. And families are facing months-long waitlists for care due to the ongoing caregiver shortage. Public funds are starting to pour into home care, pushing rates up.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

RAC audits can re-examine hospice claims going back as long as three years — and more of them may be coming, according to Kelly Grahovac, general manager of The Van Halem Group, who spoke at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference. billion directly related to health care fraud abuse.

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AlayaCare

JULY 5, 2022

It’s hard to imagine a market more invested in this population than home care, where demand is surging, and agencies strategize on staying competitive and capitalizing on this moment in time. The facts: baby boomers need care and residence. telehealth visits in 2020 was 63 times higher than in 2019.

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AlayaCare

JULY 4, 2022

It’s hard to imagine a market more invested in this population than home care, where demand is surging, and agencies strategize on staying competitive and capitalizing on this moment in time. The facts: baby boomers need care and residence. telehealth visits in 2020 was 63 times higher than in 2019.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

When the spectrum of a client’s care team shares real-time information, that client’s needs are clearly understood, resulting in fewer interventions and a better quality of life. Why Interoperability Is Important in Home Care. Statistics bear that out: a 2019 survey found that only about one-third of U.S.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 16, 2022

What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 According to a survey on Value-based pay by Home Health Care News (HHCN) and AlayaCare, 54% of home care providers say that currently very little of their revenue comes from value-based contracts.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Employees as advocates for your home care agency Employees are some of the best advocates for a home care agency. In home care, where attracting and retaining top talent from a shrinking pool is a reality, agencies simply can’t afford to lose that faith.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 17, 2022

What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 The transition to a value-based care delivery model is projected to benefit patients, providers, payers, vendors, and society as a whole. The AlayaCare Home Care Software Solution. trillion by 2028.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually, as well as conduct face-to-face recertification visits. Researchers conducted 88 concurrent in-person and telehealth visits between June and November 2019. Congress later extended that flexibility through Dec.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The national average hourly rate for Hospice registered nurses rose 4.58% in 2023, down from a 5.95% increase in 2022, according to a new report by the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Data metrics and feedback gathered through the Home Care Pulse Satisfaction Management Program allow AlayaCare customers to accurately measure and improve the quality of care. The integration provides AlayaCare customers with more tools to measure and improve the quality care that they provide to clients in their home.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 31, 2019

As 2019 enters the home stretch and we look forward to the year ahead, it’s an opportune time to prepare for the issues and trends that will impact the home care industry. We forecasted increasingly blurred lines between clinical care and personal care. Here at AlayaCare, we built our Care Plan 2.0

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, which purchased the provider from Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2019 for an undisclosed sum. The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020. Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When the spectrum of a client’s care team shares real-time information, that client’s needs are clearly understood, resulting in fewer interventions and a better quality of life. It’s imperative that home care agencies gather accurate , updated client health data that can be used to make informed clinical decisions.

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 18, 2019

offering a full range of in-home services, from home care, to skilled nursing services, to highly-specialized care for chronic diseases. About Lifematters Founded in 2004, Lifematters is the largest employer-based home care and care management company in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

These include the audit system created by Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014, and the two-tiered reimbursement for routine home care that reduced payment amounts after 60 days. The 2019 average for dementia patients was 126 days, compared to 92.6

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

” One key set of data pertains to the utilization of continuous home care (CHC), general inpatient care (GIP) and inpatient respite care (IRC). Despite rebasing payment rates for the higher levels of care, there still remains a high percentage of hospices that provide little to no CHC, IRC, or GIP.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been a source of controversy since CMS announced its plans for the program in 2019. Many providers saw it as a threat to the traditional Medicare benefit, with some arguing that CMS should “fix what isn’t broken.”

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions Michelle Cone and Laura Coyle of HomeWell Care Services address why home care plays a crucial role in reducing hospital readmissions, how they're prioritizing this at HomeWell, and what they would suggest as the first step to improving outcomes.

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AlayaCare

JULY 17, 2018

home care agencies rushing to implement federally-mandated electronic visit verification (EVV) systems, there looks to be some reprieve. With an open model, home care providers are free to choose from state-certified EVV systems and vendors, while a closed model mandates a specific solution for the entire state.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While private residences are the most frequently occurring location of care for hospice patients, long-term care facilities come in second, followed by assisted living facilities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Both Boozeman and Rosen serve on the Senate’s Special Committee on Aging.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2023

The letter was signed by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and LeadingAge. The SFP was among the requirements established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Rosen and Murkowski, initially tried to pass the palliative care training bill in 2019, and then again 2021. Both senators are members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

In total, there were at least 14 home health, hospice and home care deals reported in the first quarter of 2023, according to Mertz Taggart. Prior to then, no quarter had seen fewer than 24 transactions since the beginning of 2019. The bigger picture It’s not just hospice, home health and home care dealmaking that’s down.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

The state sharpened its gaze on the hospice space in the wake of two 2019 OIG reports showing that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious patient safety risk. In November, industry organizations called on CMS to examine the issue nationally.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MAY 14, 2024

Welcome Yana Smith to Our Team at Freedom Home Care! We are thrilled to welcome Yana Smith, our new Clinical Nursing Supervisor, to the Freedom Home Care family. About Yana Yana is a graduate of the College of Lake County (2016) and Purdue University, where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2019.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

of hospice enrollees in 2019, up from 9% in 2002, according to NHPCO. The average length of stay for those patients reached 126 days in 2019, compared to 92.6 Longer lengths of stay do generate higher margins , the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported in 2019. NYSE: CHE), told Hospice News in 2019.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Lawmakers have an essential role in ensuring the viability of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, according to Davis Baird, director for government affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). Jimmy Panetta from California has been a long-time champion [for hospice and palliative care],” Baird said. “He

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“If you think about how they’ve taken on strains in their capacity, these post-acute services – home health and hospice – they can get patients out of very expensive settings,” Klementz told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 Conference. Among the 1.6

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

Some in the hospice space have maintained that accreditors should be able to provide such education, but they should not be paid services, including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). In 2022, for example, CMS revamped the hospice survey process as mandated by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Each of the major national hospice industry organizations voiced concerns about the algorithm that CMS will use beginning in 2024, including LeadingAge, the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NHPI), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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