Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has recommended to Congress a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. In its annual report to Congress, MedPAC urged policymakers to eliminate hospice base-rate increases for 2025. The post MedPAC to Congress: Freeze Hospice Rates in 2025 appeared first on Hospice News.

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JULY 17, 2024

The company expects to develop similar partnerships in Ohio markets as well as two to three other states by early 2025, according to Weiland. Palliative care provider Tuesday Health has penned an agreement with the Medicare Advantage organization CareSource to offer services to its beneficiaries.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2024

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has approved its 2025 state budget that includes outlays to support palliative care services for children. The state’s budget included $14.7 million for maternal and child health, including $10.4 million for pediatric palliative care services for terminally ill children. Mariano (D-Quincy). million in 2021.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

Being selected as a participant in this program — set to start on July 1, 2025 — will allow us to continue to fulfill our mission.” Becca Gatian, who’s been with Avow Care Services over the last 12 years and its chief operating officer since 2023, agrees.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The agency’s 2025 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule contains a provision that would establish a new “prepaid shared savings” option for Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) participants. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced the new payment demonstration in March.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

1, 2025, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center will begin implementing a payment model for primary care known as the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Primary Care Flex Model under the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The role of a palliative care provider is crucial in this model.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The website will also provide opportunities for the exchange of best practices and information, with the Alliance anticipating new developments expected to finalize in 2025. The organizations will continue the process of combining their operations through the remainder of 2024 and into 2025.

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NHPCO

MARCH 28, 2024

nhpco.org Press Contact Elyssa Katz NHPCO Communications 571-281-0220 The post NHPCO Responds to CMS FY 2025 Hospice Proposed Rule appeared first on NHPCO. For Immediate Release March 28, 2024 CMS Proposes 2.6%

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ value-based insurance design (VBID) model has largely been met with a sense of relief by providers as they plan new initiatives for palliative care in 2025. That problem was mirrored in the environment outside of the program.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

The two-and-a-half-year clinical trial is expected to launch in autumn 2025. Wide variation exists in the ways palliative care is delivered, but Penn Medicine is launching an extensive research project to determine best practices in the hospital setting. Halpern, the John M. million grant.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Value in Health Care Act would extend the 5% incentive into 2024 and 2025 — a move that could foster greater opportunities for palliative care providers working in alternative payment systems, according to David Pittman, director of communications and regulatory affairs at the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS).

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Connecticut legislators recently introduced a bill that aims to create a statewide pediatric hospice and palliative program. If enacted, the bill would require the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) to create a plan for the development of the program and establish general statutes around its implementation.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

The agency’s 2025 proposed hospice rule featured a series of requests for information (RFI) on issues like health equity, social determinants of health and future quality measures. Though such treatments are often considered to be “curative,” they can also provide palliation without changing the patient’s prognosis.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 proposed hospice rule contained requests for information (RFIs) that could signal changes in the agency’s thinking on key issues. Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

1, 2025, with the application period starting May 20 and ending June 17. Though the model is focused on primary care, it could help more patients receive hospice and palliative care when appropriate, according to CMS. ACOs will then distribute payment to the participating primary care providers in their networks.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Landers’ appointment as inaugural CEO represents another step in the alliance’s integration process, which is expected to continue through the beginning of 2025. Landers during the last decade held executive leadership roles at Hebrew SeniorLife and Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group Inc.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included the updates in its proposed hospice payment rule for 2025. If finalized as written, the changes would take effect in January 2025. Performance on these surveys is crucial as more payers and consumers use public quality data to choose a hospice. 1, 2026 at the earliest.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Senate Appropriations Committee last week approved a bill that would create new funds for the program in Fiscal Year 2025. Currently in development stages, the first cohort of nurses is projected to begin in July 2025. A new hospice nursing recruitment effort has launched in the New England region after being stalled by the pandemic.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

In comments on the 2025 proposed hospice rule, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) voiced concerns that the agency’s regulatory impact assessment may not have taken all the details into account, including the need for staffing and technology investments. “In

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2024

We] feel very encouraged about the outlook for those markets and the acquisition of being immediately accretive, and what it will mean for the remainder of 2024 and into 2025 and beyond. Chemed Corp. Announced in March, the deal marked the company’s first purchase in several years. “We Opportunities are absolutely out there.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The alliance is anticipated to take shape under a new name by January 2025, he indicated. The website’s launch is projected for the spring of 2025, according to the alliance’s Co-CEO Ben Marcantonio. NAHC was born in 1982 as a merger of five national associations, so it’s in our blood to do this,” said Dombi at the conference.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

The health system anticipates the location to remain closed until the end of 2025. Julia Hospice & Palliative Refuels De Novo Plans Pennsylvania-based Julia Hospice & Palliative (JHPC) has reignited plans to launch a de novo after experiencing pandemic-related setbacks. A new opening date has not yet been announced.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. The hospice component of VBID, also called the MA carve-in, launched in 2021 and was originally slated to complete after four years.

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Hospice News

JUNE 11, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on its 2025 proposed hospice payment rule, stating that the agency’s anticipated 2.6% Federal regulators should increase scrutiny of private equity activity in the hospice space, according to the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI).

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

increase in hospice per diems that CMS included in its 2025 proposed rule , Dombi said. NAHC and NHPCO have since recently affiliated , with a new organization name yet to be announced. Providers will need far more than the 2.6% The drafted Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act from U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has voted to recommend a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. In addition to the payment recommendation, MedPAC did not propose any cuts to the aggregate payment cap for 2025, as it has previously for several years running. increase to keep pace with inflation. “At

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

CMS will not accept applications to the previously released CY 2025 Request for Applications for the Hospice Benefit Component of the VBID Model.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Commonly known as the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model officially launched on January 1, 2021, with 53 Medicare Advantage Plans offering the benefit in 206 counties within 13 states and Puerto Rico for 4 years ending in 2025. Can you walk us through that landscape?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

Before it was scheduled to end by 2025, [MA] plans that had participated in VBID in their second or greater year would not be allowed to elect an out-of-network hospice,” Gaboury said. “So The forthcoming end of the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstrative takes effect Dec.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

If enacted, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, would as of 2025 extend the flexibilities by two years. A bill currently before Congress would extend through 2026 regulatory flexibilities related to telehealth, including the ability to recertify patients for hospice care. It also includes some exceptions.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. We talk today with Betty Ferrell, who has been a nurse for 47 years, and is the founder and PI of ELNEC. As I argue on the podcast, ELNEC has likely done more to lift the primary palliative care skills of clinicians than any other initiative.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

Looking ahead to 2025, some of the key metrics that hospices, payers and referral partners need to watch are changing. As hospice and palliative care providers move further into value-based care, data is becoming paramount to building payer and referral partner relationships.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2024

After years of development, the agency in its recent hospice proposed rule indicated that the HOPE tool’s implementation would begin in 2025. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently developing quality measures that will be included in the HOPE tool, which will replace the current Hospice Item Set (HIS).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Case in point, hospices that fail to comply with new quality reporting requirements set forth in the 2025 payment rule face a 4% penalty. He shared his thoughts at the National Association of Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas. You are going to see more regulations,” Doak said at the conference.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Gen Z includes individuals born between 1997 and 2025, according to the Pew Research Center. As more members of “Gen Z” come into the hospice workforce, employers will need to adapt to their unique perspectives, needs and priorities in order to maximize recruitment and retention.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Wage increases up to 16% over four years and raises pay for nurses with advanced degrees and skills. A one-time bonus for nurses still with PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Home Care Services in Jan. PeaceHealth operates two hospice locations in Oregon, along with six others in Alaska and Washington state.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

More importantly, CDPH is collaborating with stakeholders, such as CHAPCA, to create more stringent hospice regulations that will come into effect from January 1, 2025. “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We

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