Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dallas-based Enhabit’s footprint includes 255 home health locations and 108 hospice locations across 34 states. million during the second quarter of 2023, a 2.1% While admissions in home health and hospice are slowly stabilizing, volumes trail behind some of Enhabit’s “largest peers” in industry, according to Jacobsmeyer.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A few of 2023’s largest hurdles include intensifying regulatory oversight as well as prolific workforce shortages amid rising demand. Among them is an evolving conversation around potential changes to the Medicare Hospice Benefit, an increasing focus on equitable access and service diversification to engage patients further upstream.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 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. NASDAQ: AMED) has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These interesting, unusual or groundbreaking deals could signal what’s to come in 2023 and help shape the hospice market’s long-term future. The transaction, now expected to close in the first quarter of 2023, also marked one of the most unexpected and expensive deals to take place in the hospice sector. Optum to pick up LHC Group.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. The OIG announced a new focused audit that will be conducted in FY 2023. The OIG announced a new focused audit that will be conducted in FY 2023. billion Medicare dollars.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The company’s acquisition focus for this year and into 2023 rests on targets primarily in the personal care and home health space, Allison indicated in a Q2 earnings call. Since 2019, Addus has purchased seven personal care companies and four home health and hospice agencies. Company-wide revenues reached $236.9

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2023

In M&A, I think there’s opportunities to continue to be acquisitive,” Poff said at the Bank of America (BofA) Securities 2023 Healthcare Conference in Las Vegas. “So Potential shifts in home health reimbursement are also driving the company’s M&A decisions, Poff stated during an earnings call earlier this year.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Disruption in home health reimbursement has an influence on the hospice mergers and acquisitions market, particularly among the rising number of companies offering both services. But now further disruption is looming in the home health space, raising the question of whether buyers will again lean towards hospice as events unfold.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

This means that as of May 11 telehealth encounters will no longer count as routine home care, including care and services provided via remote patient monitoring systems, telephone calls and audiovisual technologies, according to recent guidance from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As VBID now, we’re approaching the end of 2022 and then emerging into 2023, we’re going to be in 15 plans, 119 plan benefit packages, and across 806 counties. 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

JULY 26, 2022

It’s down a bit by about 10% – 11% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2021 as some of the investor focus shifts to home health. Because of the [Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM)], things got garbled and murky in home health as investors waited to see what happened. There could be several.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Mark Kulik, Senior Managing Director, The Braff Group, to learn how the HHA and hospice M&A landscape is shaping up for 2022 heading into 2023. Now that CMS has announced the new rates for 2023, what do you expect the 2023 landscape to look like?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

So I’m a part of what we’re doing in home health, PACE, hospice and palliative care. For 2023, it’s going to bring a lot of regulatory changes. Medicare Advantage is expanding. So I’m a part of what we’re doing in home health, PACE, hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. We had a lot of this in home health, and now it’s hospice’s turn to be scrutinized. This article is sponsored by nVoq. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. This seems to go in waves.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 29, 2023

She is committed to providing top-notch care to the communities served by VNS Health Choice MAP and MLTC, many of whom come from vulnerable backgrounds. Esther Conteh is an important nursing leader , and we’re pleased to profile her as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series 2023. That’s one thing I love about this work.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

3: How to Prepare Your Staff For OASIS-E Upgrades Wendie Colvin, Senior Clinical Content Writer at HCP, answers all your questions about OASIS-E, and shares how agencies can prepare their staff for these new regulatory updates in 2023. Linda Leekley ( 00:08 ): Hey, welcome everyone to Home Care Pulse Vision, Care Leaders’ podcast.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

Michelle Cone ( 03:28 ): So, you know, at its most basic level, it really allows home care agencies to monitor and promote the quality of care that they provide to their clients with actual quantitative data. Now, for those of us in home care, you know, we know original Medicare is not a payer for us. We hear that all the time.

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