Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

A wide variety of palliative care services have cropped up nationwide in recent years, but not all have remained viable. There’s many that are cutting their palliative care programs just because the reimbursement for palliative care is still largely fee-for-service and it doesn’t cover the direct costs,” McInnes told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

A group of seven nonprofit hospices has launched a palliative care organization branded as Integrity Care Partners. The founding organizations are each members of the Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance, a regional collaborative of which Integrity Care Partners is an extension.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! 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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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

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. of hospice VBID patients received supplemental benefits associated with the program. About 6.5%

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

The University of South Florida (USF) College of Nursing has launched a graduate certificate program in palliative care and hospice. It includes coursework, clinical hours and other training focused on pain management, symptom assessment, interdisciplinary teamwork and effective communication with patients and families.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in preparedness when it comes to hospice and palliative care. COVID-19 caused widespread disruption across the health care system, including among hospices. In 2017, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

The number of states introducing palliative care Medicaid reimbursement channels has been climbing in recent years. She is also CEO of Torrie Fields & Associates (TFA), a value-based health care consulting company. But questions proliferate around how to shape these programs. Utilization is a totally different ball of wax.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care recently began exploring ways to improve clinical outcomes during the last days of life, an important quality measure in end-of-life care. This window into a patient’s conditions has helped hospice teams better assess approaches to care delivery, Escalante said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Hospice providers need to evolve with their changing patient populations and the larger health care system, according to Greg Hagfors, CEO of Partners In Care. Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! Frontpoint Health has completed its acquisition of the Texas-based home health and hospice company High Plains Senior Care Group (HPSC).

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. We also couldn’t go into the facilities.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

The agency also proposed two new quality measures and 2025 implementation of the Hospice Outcome and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) assessment tool to replace the Hospice Item Set. We know that hospice care has demonstrated $3.5 Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Arizona-based Phoenix Children’s Hospital has developed a pediatric hospice and palliative care fellowship program that is positively impacting access to these services. Communication skills are among the most significant components of shaping a sustainable pediatric palliative care workforce, Shaw said. “A

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

Care coordination and quality data will be engines for hospice referral growth. Hospices saw census volumes drop during the COVID-19 public health emergency as facilities nationwide restricted access to patients amid mandated state closures. Now it’s part of our mantra that good care is directly linked to good communication.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

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. It’s about honoring the trust placed in us and ensuring that every patient receives the support they deserve.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

The legislation comes at a time of critical need for supportive services, according to Kerry Moss, palliative care division head at Connecticut Children’s. The pediatric provider launched its palliative care services roughly a decade ago, Moss said. So expanding the bill to include palliative care will be important.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! d/b/a/ Covenant Care, provides hospice across six cities in the panhandle and northwest region of Florida and in three markets across southeast Alabama.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

CONs have a big role to play when it comes to quality and utilization, according to Susan Ponder-Stansel, president and CEO of Florida-based Alivia Care. You have to walk in line with the [patient] demand and regulatory requirements.” In states with CON, we see much higher utilization rates and more scaling down on quality.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Spiritual hospice care providers are an important link to building bridges of access and trust among underserved African American populations. The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services. The place of worship has been a space where Black people can come and feel safe.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

YoloCares provides hospice, palliative and supportive care in five counties across northern California, recently adding a sixth county to its service region. YoloCares has an adult day program and offers caregiver and advance care planning services, along with grief support. Its palliative care program launched in 2016.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

Right now, because states decide who gets licensed to do care, we have to have the cooperation of the states so we can go beyond its own state borders.” Many health care stakeholders have argued that Congress and the U.S. Becerra pledged that HHS is “prepared to work with” bipartisan lawmakers to craft a long-term solution.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

Patients with cardiac and pulmonary conditions see improvements in their quality of life after receiving palliative care via telehealth. Veterans Administration health care systems, one in Colorado and another in Washington state. This is a test of the power of some of the elements of palliative care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

Wisconsin is among the states that have recently taken steps to improve palliative care access and awareness. Wisconsin legislators recently introduced a bill that would establish a statewide Palliative Care Council. In addition, it would help educate Wisconsinites about what palliative care does.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has unveiled a new primary care-oriented Accountable Care Organization (ACO) payment model that holds opportunities for hospices. Though the model is focused on primary care, it could help more patients receive hospice and palliative care when appropriate, according to CMS.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

This article is based on a Palliative Care News discussion with Deanna Heath, Senior Vice President of customer experience at KanTime, Jared King, Vice President of business development and sales at Hospice Dynamix and Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime. Can palliative care function without numerous systems? From that, create efficiencies.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Patients may be receiving several visits from these professionals during the last days of life, or multiple visits on the same day, that do not count toward the measure, she said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

Michele Senbertrand, Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner for By The Bay Health, has been named a 2023 Frontline Honors honoree by Hospice News. Hospice News caught up with Senbertrand to discuss their time in the hospice care industry. Hospice and palliative care is the antithesis of this, to my great relief.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. Why Beth? Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! However, the demonstration’s design – or perhaps lack of enough design – did not portend a strong future for hospice care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

Hospitalized cancer patients have a greater likelihood of receiving a hospice referral from a hospitalist than other physicians, recent research has found. of patients to inpatient hospice settings between July 26, 2021 and Jan. Horn Prsic is a medical oncologist and palliative care physician. 31, 2022, a recent study found.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! In addition to hospice, Ohio’s Hospice offers advance care planning services, along with caregiver, grief support and veterans programs.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

Data are key to understanding how value-based care has helped highlight quality benefits of hospice. Commonly called the hospice carve-in, the program in 2021 began testing the coverage of hospice through Medicare Advantage, as well as palliative care and transitional care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation have been in communication with lawmakers in hopes of keeping the funds within the hospice program. “We for next year.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Hospice of the Chesapeake in 2023 cared for more than 3,900 hospice patients and over 2,200 supportive/palliative care patients across four Maryland counties. She is a licensed clinical social worker by profession. “I The post Hospice of the Chesapeake Taps Rebecca Miller as New CEO appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

“Based on the positive indicators of payment adequacy and strong margins, the Commission concludes that current payment rates are sufficient to support the provision of high-quality care without an increase to the payment rates in 2025,” MedPAC indicated in its report. billion in Medicare savings for patients in the last year of life, a 3.1%

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.” “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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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! The company operates more than 250 locations in 31 states and the District of Columbia, caring for roughly 200,000 patients and families annually.

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