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Hospice of the Foothills Joins California Hospice Network

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Among the organization’s goals of the collaboration is to reduce overhead costs, improve the members’ bargaining position with payers and health plans and smooth the transition into value-based payment models, such as Medicare Advantage. Three hospices in 2013 established Ohio’s Hospice, for instance.

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Ohio’s Hospice Expands Partnership with Senior Living Provider United Church Homes

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“We expect this strategic alliance’s impact will transform health care and provide value and improve the quality of many lives in which we are privileged to serve.” Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013. Demographics are driving up a need for serious illness and end-of-life care in Ohio.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

Hospice News

Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016. Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers.

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Ohio’s Hospice Expands with New Morrow County Affiliate

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Together, we set the highest standard of care to ensure everyone in our care has access to world-class, end-of-life care,” Andrea Baker, executive director at Ohio’s Hospice of Morrow County, said in an announcement. “We Commonly called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in , the demonstration took effect Jan.

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CMS Seeks Answers on Hospice Utilization Trends, Spending

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking answers from the hospice community — including some around utilization patterns and non-hospice spending. Scrutiny of GIP utilization has been ongoing for a number of years, dating back to 2013 reports from the U.S. Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6

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3 Nonprofit Hospice Providers to Watch in 2023

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Though nonprofit hospices now represent a smaller slice of the industry than in years past, they continue to care for more than half of patients in the United States who elect the benefit. The number of hospices operating nationwide rose to 5,3,58 in 2021, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. And then we linked that cohort with administrative data, which allowed me to pull out the ICU admissions in addition to manually abstracting all of the paper data for the managed Medicare participants. How do I reconcile these two issues?