Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This represents 46% growth in the senior population since 2015. Hospice utilization in Indiana reached 48.9% among Medicare decedents in 2018, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. Croix Hospice’s growth is showing no signs of slowing down. states that year at 59.4%.

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Hospice News

MARCH 16, 2023

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has once again recommended a 20% cut to the aggregate cap for hospice payments. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) set the 2023 cap at $32,486.92, up from nearly $31,300 per patient for Fiscal Year 2022. of hospices exceeded the cap, MedPAC estimated.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

Hospice and palliative care providers have wrangled for decades with obstacles that complicate access to rural patients and make their care more expensive. For starters, rural regions are less likely to have a Medicare-certified hospice than urban counties. The pressures on rural providers go beyond the logistical.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Yet, Asians, African Americans, and Hispanics represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients in 2018, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according to NHPCO. ““To The data show that the number of people choosing hospice care has grown for twenty years. between 2010 and 2019. and 20%, respectively. .

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Even when a hospice plays by the rules, death does not. When the Medicare Hospice Benefit became a permanent program in 1982, its parameters were designed specifically for cancer patients. Longer lengths of stay do generate higher margins , the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported in 2019. population.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

About 21% indicated that their own health was poor in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. Potential impact on hospice utilization The strain on caregivers could mean that ultimately fewer patients will be able to receive hospice care in their homes. In 2010, the U.S.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations. That means more than half of Americans receive less than three weeks of hospice care. Why do most people receive less time in hospice than recommended? First, let’s consider the importance of a quality length of stay in hospice. Medicare Policies.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. What are other options?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. While at the bedside of hundreds of people during the dying process, a hospice pioneer. Hospice takes care of people with life-threatening illnesses that are no longer wanting treatment.

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