Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

About 18% of hospices nationwide operated in rural areas in 2021, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). About 845 hospices provided care in rural-based regions in 2021, a drop from 878 organizations in 2017, the MedPAC report found.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Providers have reported shortages among social workers and nonclinical staff as well. Only three hospice deals took place in the third quarter of this year compared to 11 in Q3 2022 and 18 in the same period in 2021, according to data from the M&A advisory firm The Braff Group.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Social determinants are non-medical needs that can have a significant impact on the trajectory of patients’ health, such as nutrition, transportation, social or caregiver support, and housing, among others. Social and economic factors like these drive 40% of health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Participants included hospice aides, social workers, nurses, clinicians, chaplains and other staff. Aides and other hospice workers are in high demand in California, which is among the states with higher volumes of Medicare decedents who elect hospice, according to the U.S. Seniors 65 and older represent 14.6%

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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

This is a rise from 1,367 individuals served in 2021, 135 of whom were hospice patients and families, according to an annual report. In 2021 the organization had seven employees. Wood River reportedly provides care free of charge and does not bill insurance companies or Medicare. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

In 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared caregiving to be an incipient public health issue. Schaefer relays that palliative care social workers can “assess safety and health-related social needs like food insecurity, housing instability, financial stressors and behavioral health needs.”

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The findings in this report reflect patients who received care in Calendar Year (CY) 2021, or Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, provided by hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Most beneficiaries switch to Traditional Medicare.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This would include social workers, grief counselors, and chaplains, among others. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires hospice providers to offer bereavement care to their patients’ families for 13 months after death.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Care Team offers home-based care that includes hospice, nursing and occupational, physical and speech therapy services, as well as medical social workers. The hospice utilization rate among Medicare decedents in Indiana reached 51.9% Indiana University’s Business Research Center projected that seniors will represent 20.9%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Providers have reported shortages among social workers and nonclinical staff as well. Another focus for providers this year should be adapting towards risk-based payment models or the potential for hospice coverage through Medicare Advantage (MA), some executives say. This entire Medicare Advantage carve-in, it makes sense.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Case in point, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in 2021 announced a “strategy refresh” that included focus on health care equity in payment model design. Spiritual care is not directly reimbursable work in the same way as clinicians or social workers are getting reimbursed [and] that can create great barriers.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

From a business perspective, patient populations who experienced longer lengths of stay boosted hospice margins by as much as 20% during 2016, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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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). So, having those conversations about what those improvements would be is going to be an important exercise in 2024.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

million people in the United States were diagnosed with cancer in 2021, while roughly 608,570 individuals died from the disease that year, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. Cancer patients can have a wide range of different diagnoses that come with varying prognoses. An estimated 1.9

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Before joining Guaranteed, Malone served as vice president of sales and partnerships at mental health provider Thriveworks since 2021. Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum ultimately did acquire Prospero in early 2021 and is in the process of merging the company with its Landmark subsidiary. NASDAQ: AMED) acquired the business in 2021. Reimbursement for palliative care in fee-for-service Medicare currently only covers physician or nurse practitioner services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Vynca launched as an advance care planning technology platform and expanded into the palliative care provider space through its 2021 acquisition of California-based Resolution Care. We do traditional Medicare. Darren Schulte, CEO of VyncaCare, told Hospice News. We do fee-for-service.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The company’s consolidated net service revenue dropped 3% from Q3 2021 to $265.7 Average lengths of stay among the publicly traded firms tumbled at a faster rate in Q3 2022 (3%) than they did in the third quarter of 2021 (2%), according to research by Scott Fidel, an analyst for Stephens. among Medicare decedents from 51.6%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The company is a value-based organization that partners with primary care physicians nationwide to jointly take on the total cost and quality of care for their senior patients through Medicare Advantage or the the U.S. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers. We bring insights.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In addition to acquisitions, LHC was involved in 30 out of the 69 joint ventures that completed in the hospice and home health space from 2014 to 2021, Kulik said. billion purchase of Kindred at Home in August 2021. For all counties, the 2021 assessment identified behavioral health as the No. billion to $1.08

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2021 called the strain of caregiving an “emerging public health concern.” In 2010, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

billion in 2021, according to Fortune Business Insights. Chicago-based Oak Street Health consists of a network of value-based primary care facilities that serve upwards of 145,000 Medicare beneficiaries across 21 states. The hospice market is expected to nearly double in the next decade, reaching $64.7 billion in 2030 from $34.5

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Although Pallitus is part of the Hosparus Health family, it has been establishing itself as an individual entity since 2021. To break down those walls, social workers at Pallitus have focused on assisting patients and their families before they even make it into the building. Principal care management is something that [the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

One thing that just came out last week was the phase two reports, summarizing what happened in 2021 with VBID. In 2021, VBID was in nine MA plans. HSPN: Can you talk a little bit about what kind of disruption could occur in the hospice industry, as a result of Medicare Advantage? Are you not?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This year brought the return of Medicare sequestration, and pandemic-driven disruption in referral streams are lingering. in the same period of 2021, according to research by Scott Fidel, analyst for Stephens. days in Q3, compared to 96 days in Q3 2021. Coupled with this downward trend were falling lengths of stay.

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NHPCO

JUNE 16, 2023

These congressional advocacy actions came a week after NHPCO filed detailed comments on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Hospice Wage Index and Quality Reporting Proposed Rule, demonstrating the importance of both legislative and regulatory advocacy for protecting and improving hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

I have channeled my passion for working with underserved communities, beginning as a licensed social worker for a large hospital system, where I experienced firsthand the disparities in healthcare access and limitations in delivering whole-person care. What have your outcomes been so far?

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Katrina Agnew joined UnityPoint Health in December of 2021 as vice president of hospice. When you talk about an interdisciplinary team coming into your home — nurses, a social worker, chaplain, having access to the physician, volunteers — people are automatically going to think that there’s a cost associated with that.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In her decades of service, Lund Person has served as a key contact with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and helped ensure that policymakers hear the hospice voice. Caring for the widow of a Veteran, an MJHS social worker learned of the patient’s dying wish to be buried with her husband at the Calverton National Cemetery.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. It’s been around for a while.

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NHPCO

MARCH 6, 2022

Conference Marks 40 Years of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. This year marks 40 years since Congress passed the legislation that created the Medicare hospice benefit, making the conference location just a few miles from the Capitol especially appropriate for this year. For Immediate Release: March 6, 2022. Alexandria, Va.,

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms. 2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. But we are still laboring under this Medicare benefit.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I think in that way, what we see with more than half of Medicare beneficiaries dying under the care of a hospice, that expansion was potentially a good thing. Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away. Alex: Can I ask a question?

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