Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced a number of provisions aimed at addressing conflicts of interest and establishing more consistent standards, processes and definitions among accreditation entities.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

About 7,330 pediatric physicians left the field in 2021, making it among the most impacted health care areas impacted by staffing shortages, according to Definitive Healthcare data. There needs to be a unified definition of concurrent care as well as expansion to all children under any insurance.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

“We seek to strengthen the notion that in order to provide the highest level of care for hospice beneficiaries, we must provide ongoing focus to those services that enforce CMS’ definitions of hospice and palliative care and eliminate any barriers to accessing hospice care.”

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2024

Unfortunately, the lack of definition for the palliative care component led to a consistency issue across the demonstration, according to Mollie Gurian, vice president of Home-Based and HCBS Policy at LeadingAge.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A primary barrier for patient and family access to palliative care is a lack of standardized definition and payment mechanism. Without an established palliative care benefit or universally recognized definition in place, care delivery models, patient experiences and reimbursement of palliative care services vary widely across the nation.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

The biggest barrier to achieving more widespread palliative care integration is the lack of a clear definition of that term, a lagging reimbursement system and fragmentation in the health care system, according to Tiffany Hughes, COO of Texas-headquartered palliative care provider PalliCare Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

We’re definitely hinging on hospice centers as being very natural partners for us,” Nissim said. We literally had the exact same experience at that same age and with same-age children.” The post DayNew Launches Grief Care Platform appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The organization is urging CMS to expand both the definition of a “caregiver” and consider additional payment avenues that would support their training. The agency’s current definition includes more than family members, friends or neighbors, but some of the terms can be restrictive, according to C-TAC.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

PACE programs are definitely open to capitated arrangements — per-participant, per-month. These are palliative care contracts where they really don’t want them to be on hospice, because they have to foot the bill.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

A dedicated community-based palliative care benefit that is properly reimbursed would definitely catalyze growth and sustainability of these programs,” Baird told Hospice News in an email. To date, lagging reimbursement has been a barrier to home-based serious illness care, he said. “A

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

But while the flexible definition of those services can give providers room to innovate, positive change has been slow going, Scott Levy, chief government affairs officer for Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED). “Palliative care” is becoming a buzz word in health care, even if many people don’t understand the loosely defined term.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer’s disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome to a newer biological definition based on the presence of positive amyloid biomarkers. Again, those are for lay public definitions. That’s a definition.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

The diverse social, emotional and physical support services involved in community-based palliative care have made it an increasingly appealing area for MA plans when it comes to supporting a growing seriously ill aging population, according to Marian Grant, senior regulatory advisor at the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

.” “We realized that we were sort of hiring all these folks whose narrow definition of palliative care was either from their hospice lens or from their inpatient palliative care lens, where you’re only asked to come and work with really challenging symptom management,” Smith said at the conference. “So

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

Escobar’s] factors ‘could support a materiality finding’ not because the evidence definitively points towards materiality — it does not — but because on this record, a reasonable jury could conclude that Care Alternatives’ alleged violations were material.” “For purposes of appellate review, we acknowledge that some of [ U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

But there’s definitely more of a tilt in the home health space.” In the hospice and home health arena, what we are seeing is that there’s a little bit of a tilt to home health now over hospice, but you still have the private equity firms that have a very hospice heavy thesis, and they’re in their thought process.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

It’s definitely different than selling oranges or cars. There are definitely differentiators among hospices. The hospice landscape has definitely changed. It’s not definitely not something that you can do in a vacuum; everything’s fluid. How do you cultivate that sense of belief?

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

I have definitely seen firsthand the increased interest in palliative care for these large physician groups that are based in primary care,” Hughes told Hospice News in an email. “On Forming collaborations can be an avenue to supporting the full scope of interdisciplinary services involved, Hughes stated. “I

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The board and officers will be ratified when the definitive agreements are signed in early 2024, the organizations’ indicated. The transition board includes equal representation from NAHC and NHPCO, including directors who hail from the home health, hospice, palliative care, personal care services, home care, and private duty realms.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For the purposes of this study, the authors included hospice in its definition of “palliative care.” However, more research is needed to measure the impact of community-based palliative care on patients’ quality of life, researchers indicated.

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Responsive Home Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Caregiving is definitely a time-intensive commitment. If you are like most family caregivers, carving out sufficient time to meet each day’s basic requirements could be hard enough. The idea of having regular intervals of downtime may seem unattainable.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, it’s definitely possible in sort of that oldest old category that there may be what we call silent aspiration, where someone aspirates, and then they don’t cough or clear their throat, so you actually wouldn’t even know that they’re aspirating. Raele: Yep, they definitely can be. Raele: Yes, definitely.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Palliative care lacks a standardized definition within current value-based reimbursement systems, making it difficult to determine the full scope of services for seriously ill patients. Palliative care services are intended to address physical, psychosocial, social and spiritual needs of seriously ill individuals.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Escobar’s] factors ‘could support a materiality finding’ not because the evidence definitively points towards materiality — it does not — but because on this record, a reasonable jury could conclude that Care Alternatives’ alleged violations were material.” For purposes of appellate review, we acknowledge that some of [ U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

It’s definitely not defined as ‘cultural competence,’ because as soon as we think we know everything, then we’re toast. Cultivating understanding of patients’ life experiences and developing effective communication skills can be a life-long learning process, rather than a status one achieves by taking a class or seminar.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

It was definitely a big, big priority for [UnitedHealth Group] to have better solutions to help their members, and so they made a decision,” Smith told Hospice News. Kristopher Smith, chief clinical officer for both Prospero Health and Landmark Health.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

I think this is increasingly recognized as an issue regardless of the specialty, but definitely, something that will need more attention as our population continues to age. What are the most important things medical students or residents need to learn about treating the aging population?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“Beneficiaries who received palliative care under the [VBID] model as part of the hospice component lack a familiarity with palliative care [and] could not identify both what palliative care is in definition and the types of services that comprise palliative care,” Driessen said.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

There are definitely just basic physiological cardiac risks. However, researchers should pay more attention to potential risks in ongoing research, according to Ladybird Morgan, a registered nurse and social worker for the palliative care company Mettle Health and co-founder of The Humane Prison Hospice Project. “I

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The law stipulates that the Georgia Department of Community Health website include a definition of palliative care and patient eligibility information, including pediatric services. Additionally, the regulation requires the health department to include continuing education opportunities for health care providers in these services.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The definition of health care entity was narrowed in the case of a party that acts as an agent on behalf of other entities, limiting this to parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates of a payer; in the prior versions of the Regulation this applied to entities acting on behalf of providers, delivery systems and pharmacy benefit managers.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I think there is definitely a growing interest among rehab professionals to learn more about palliative care and how to bring that to the therapies they’re doing and conversations they’re having with families and patients,” Flint said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

That definition of who you’re going to serve, and in what capacity you are going to design your palliative care program is a very, very important question.” Croix Hospice, said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C. Rory Farrand, vice president of palliative and advanced care, NHPCO, and Dr.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I definitely would not be where I’m at today without my family. Health care was always changing and evolving, but the COVID pandemic has definitely been a huge change that has happened over the last few years. The pandemic definitely allowed me to see things and grow personally and professionally with what we’ve all had to deal with.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The rule also clarifies definitions around hospice leaders, as well as how noncompliance could impact Medicare billing capabilities, she said. The rule requires providers seeking Medicare certification to report any changes in ownership and ensure the “highest level of screening,” possible, Piland said.

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Today's Caregiver

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

According to the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, there are two definitions for the word cur•mudg•eon. The first one being: An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions. Or, my personal favorite: A crusty.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Last year federal legislation was proposed that, if enacted, would have advanced the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care. “There isn’t a guideline as to what would be considered best practice or appropriately fulfilling the Medicare requirements for bereavement,” Gross said.

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