Hospice News

MAY 10, 2023

Hospices are increasingly eying palliative care as a promising growth opportunity, prioritizing expansion in that field over other health care service lines. Survey respondents included nearly 330 hospice and palliative care industry professionals, including owners, executive leaders and managers, among others.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

Hospices are blazing trails toward growth, each provider with its own range of strategies. In 2023, the focus for many is to not only expand their core business but to spread further into the care continuum. In this story, Hospice News highlights the growth strategies of several providers.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Most hospices are sliding into 2023 between a rock and a hard place, beset by headwinds, labor shortages and questions with no easy answers. Government oversight of hospice providers will tighten during 2023. These concerns will be a hot topic in the new year, but other regulatory actions are also underway for 2023.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC. So, these U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SCAN Health Plan is among the Medicare Advantage (MA) payers entering the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) payment demonstration in 2023. The four-year program — often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — launched Jan. Hospice VBID enters its third year in 2023.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2022

More than a dozen hospice advocacy groups have called on congressional leadership to intervene in a proposed 2.7% CMS in April released the 2023 proposed payment rule for hospice providers, including the 2.7% A key point of contention is that CMS used 2019 data to calculate the 2023 rate, including wages and cost reports.

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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. NHPCO Facts and Figures is an essential resource for the hospice community.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

Margin pressures from the proposed cuts to Medicare home health rates could impact palliative care and hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in June released its proposed home health reimbursement rule for 2023, which included a 4.2% pay hike for hospice care in 2023.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum. An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. Palliative care and hospice share some common goals with hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

This is the first of a two-part service that will detail key findings from recent research on hospice care, featuring numbers that could influence they ways hospices communicate and operate. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2023

New Jersey-based RWJBarnabas Health has expanded its pediatric palliative care program at the health system’s Children’s Specialized Hospital (CSH). The move will increase outpatient and inpatient pediatric palliative care services at the hospital, as well as across the health system’s footprint.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois-headquartered Unity Hospice & Palliative Care has expanded to Houston, Texas, following its acquisition of an existing license in that market. Unity is a family-owned provider established in 1992 that since then has cared for more than 30,000 patients, the company reported.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Rising demand and demographic tailwinds are propelling rapid growth in both the hospice and palliative care markets. These markets are growing partly because of demographic trends and partly because of increasing acceptance of both palliative and hospice,” Tanquilut told Hospice News. “As billion by 2030, a rise from $34.5

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Increasingly, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have found real value in offering community-based palliative care as a supplemental benefit. This flexibility has allowed insurance companies to offer assistance beyond what is available within traditional Medicare, including palliative care for members, delivered right to the home.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The HAN Angel Awards were created to recognize select members of Congress on both sides of the aisle for their ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of patients, families, providers, and those advocating for the vital mission of hospice and palliative care in supporting patients and their families facing serious or life-limiting illness.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unity Hospice and Palliative Care of Greater Houston has unveiled a five-year general inpatient (GIP) service agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Health. The hospice will provide GIP care across the health system’s four hospitals. Unity Hospice and Palliative Care serves 13 counties in Texas.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

Kathy Hochul has signed a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice, and palliative care. The new law requires the New York State Department of Health to develop a public awareness campaign to promote advance care planning. That must change.”. About 17.4%

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

A huge need exists for neuropalliative care, Dr. Claire J. Creutzfeldt at the Harborview Medical Center’s Department of Neurology told Palliative Care News. Palliative care offers support for a variety of symptoms through interdisciplinary care. But, in addition, stroke leaves people with huge changes in identity.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Set to open this summer, the hospice facility will feature 15 patient beds at Lourdes Senior Community in Waterford, Michigan. Expanding hospice care in the senior community will allow for improved support and care collaboration, according to Angela Hospice President and CEO Marti Coplai.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The prospect of stagnated per diems would be woeful news for hospice providers that are facing widespread wage increases along with inflation and other costs, according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Health and Hospice (NAHC). For this year, CMS increased the hospice base rate by 3.1%. set in 2023.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For example, data gathered from predictive analytics systems can give hospices an advantage when it comes to performance on measures like Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life (HVLDL) and the Hospice Care Index (HCI), as well as predicting when patients become hospice eligible or will be in need to home health or palliative care services.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Amy Rose, director of palliative products for Axxess, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec. Often called the “hospice carve-in,” the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, in addition to some coverage of palliative care and transitional care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2024

But what I will tell you is that there are programs in place where if the applicants go through the process and certify to CMS that they have a program that will service the needs of a community when it comes to hospice care — and they are able to meet the standards — that we will certify them to be able to provide hospice care,” Becerra said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

Leigh Jenks, Hospice and Palliative Care Music Therapist for Blue Ridge Hospice, has been named a 2023 Frontline Honors honoree by Hospice News. Hospice News caught up with Jenks to discuss their time in the hospice care industry. HSPN: What drew you to this industry?

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. Obviously, palliative care fits in there.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

About 128 new enrolled hospices entered California in 2023, according to data from CMS. Arizona also saw a rise of 27 new hospices during the last year, with Texas and Nevada seeing 96 and 33 new providers, respectively. The post Fraudulent Hospice Providers May Be Moving Between States appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

What’s happening in these states has caused mounting concern around access to quality hospice care for LGBTQ+ individuals, according to Kimberly Acquaviva, social worker and professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing. “This number has grown tremendously and exponentially.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

Mihir Kamdar, Head of Clinical Delivery for Tuesday Health, has been named a 2023 Frontline Honors honoree by Hospice News. Hospice News caught up with Kamdar to discuss their time in the hospice care industry. Kamdar: I discovered my passion for palliative care during my medical internship nearly 20 years ago.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Though the number of hospice M&A deals plummeted in 2023 compared to prior years, deals are still being made, and the industry may see a rebound in 2024. Transaction volume declined in the hospice and home-based care space in 2023, following the two record-breaking prior years. This followed its $5.4

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Many of these patients could benefit from receiving hospice care sooner and longer, but regulatory requirements can make that a challenging feat for providers, she said. They could still benefit from hospice services earlier in their disease course, and for a much longer time.” A projected 12.7 A projected 12.7

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NHPCO

JUNE 28, 2023

For Immediate Release June 28, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has released the 2023 edition of the Pediatric Facts and Figures Report. Pediatric palliative and hospice care in the United States started in the mid to late 1990s.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

Research trends can help hospice providers improve their understanding around the impacts of their services and where quality gaps may exist. Their research found that coordinated telehealth visits with hospice interdisciplinary staff helped ease care transitions among young adults and children.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Chambers sat down with Hospice News to talk about her career trajectory and the ways the industry is evolving.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

Empath Health has completed its affiliation with Trustbridge, making the organization the largest nonprofit post-acute care provider in the state of Florida. The affiliation includes Trustbridge’s hospice brands, Hospice of Palm Beach County and Hospice by the Sea.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

Ethical principles of autonomy vary in pediatric populations due to a number of factors, including a child’s age, developmental stage, cognitive capacity and their spiritual background and beliefs, according to Christy Torkildson, director at the Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition of California.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The predictive analytics tool calculates the likelihood that a patient will die within six months and become eligible to receive hospice care. The technology flags declines in patient conditions through the health system’s electronic health records that prompt physicians to hold discussions around hospice and palliative care.

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