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Health Systems Pursue Palliative Care Skill-Building Initiatives

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Quality data can help health care leaders across the continuum visualize the return on investment of growing palliative care training initiatives/partnerships, according to Brynn Bowman, CEO of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). But many of them go without due to a lack of trained clinicians.

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Amedisys Eyes Palliative Care Expansion Via Contessa Joint Ventures

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Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) subsidiary Contessa Health is seeing strong patient engagement for its expanded home-based palliative care program, which the company launched in January in partnership with Mt. Sinai Health System in New York. With this in place, the company now offers a full continuum of home-based care.

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High-Acuity Services Driving Admissions Growth at Amedisys

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Combined, hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home admissions grew by 55% year-over-year during the second quarter of the year. This is compared to a 4% increase in home health same-store admissions and a 6% decline for its hospice segment. million in Q2 2022. million the prior year. “We

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Three Key Gauges of Hospice Business Performance

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Rising expenses caused widespread margin compression among hospices during 2022, particularly those associated with wages and salaries, recruitment and retention, fuel and general inflation. “We’re Kenneth Albert, president and CEO, Androscoggin Home Care + Hospice. “We Staying on top of spending. We look at the payer mix.

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Where Hospices Are Seeing the Greatest ROI on Staffing Investments

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Medical groups and health systems nationwide reported a median of 10% increase in staffing costs from 2022 to 2023 in a recent American Medical Group Association (AGMA) survey. of medical groups in 2022, according to the AGMA survey results. Home health and hospice provider Enhabit Inc. About 77.6%

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New Leadership at Interim HealthCare; Former Amedisys CEO to Lead TheKey

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Paul Mastrapa, former CEO of Help at Home, will succeed her. The Florida-based company is a home-based care franchise that provides home health care, hospice care, palliative care, pediatric care and personal care to about 200,000 patients annually from more than 330 U.S. Gerard had been COO of Amedisys from 2016 to 2022.

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What Hospices Can Learn from Home Health Agencies on New Program Integrity Rules

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Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. The earlier experiences of home health providers informed those recommendations as well. “We In 2022, the projected improper payment amount for hospice care is expected to be close to $2.9

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