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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospice News

“We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

Hospice News

Among the program’s goals is to enroll at least 3,000 new Illinois patients into home-based primary care by 2024. million seniors who reside in Illinois are 85 or older, and 40% of Medicare beneficiaries in the state have four or more chronic conditions, according to HCCI. million primary care visits in 2016.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

What do we know about the differences between the two types of organizations when we’re thinking about hospice care? One is the patient population and a targeting of for-profit hospices around patients who are going to be potentially less costly and more profitable. People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

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