Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2023

More than $200 million SIA payments were distributed in 2021, compared to less than $100 million in 2017, according to the Abt research. In terms of patients, that’s more than a million beneficiaries receiving SIA services in 2021, versus under 850,000 beneficiaries in 2017, the data found.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Between 2013 and 2017, Canon billed Medicare for 2,800 claims per month, totalling $15.3 This resulted in approximately $600 in excessive payments per patient, per day, which is enough to cover multiple months of Routine Home Care, the Justice Department alleged.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Launched in 2017, the VBID demonstration is testing new approaches to reimbursement across a variety of health care settings. This year, 1,367 plans offered coverage through VBID. The 2024 participants will cover a combined 12.4 million Medicare beneficiaries next year, up from 9.2 million in 2023.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Between 2014 and 2017, these patients accounted for more than 20% of all emergency department (ED) visits in the United States, according to the U.S. Patients and clinicians can benefit from having palliative care consults available in hospital emergency departments, though currently few providers have done so.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The study compared two groups of Hispanic patients across Colorado-based community health care systems, nonprofit providers and academic settings from January 2017 to January 2021. Data were collected and analyzed from July 2022 to July 2023 of self-identifying Hispanic patients with serious noncancer life-limiting illnesses.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. So, in 2017 Global Partners in Care moved from NHPCO and is now affiliated with the Center for Hospice Care.” Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Justice Department, Angel Care enrolled 24 patients in hospice between 2009 through 2017 who did not meet Medicare eligibility requirements. Kristal Glover-Wing, the former owner of Louisiana-based Angel Care Hospice, has been found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and three counts of health care fraud.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A 2017 analysis of Northwestern’s program showed significant cost reductions, reduced hospital readmissions and increases in hospice enrollment and length of stay, Chiang said at the symposium.

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MAY 1, 2023

The organization finished 2017 with a net income of slightly more than $107,000. . “LifeTouch Hospice has a wonderful reputation for providing high quality, patient-centered care, and we look forward to learning, growing and serving together for many years to come.” But the following year, it reported a more than $1.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Ginn served in that same role before being promoted to CFO in 2017 and executive vice president in 2021. He has more than 25 years of health care experience, including a role as assistant medical director at Compassus from 2010 to 2017. The news comes as Amedisys inches closer towards acquisition integration with Optum.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2023

This is a projected 37% increase from 2017. Demographic tailwinds make Tennesssee an attractive market for Addus. By 2030, 28% of the state’s population will be 60 or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Compared to Q2 2022, the company saw 9.7%

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

PCHETA was first introduced in 2017. “There’s an opportunity for PCHETA to get added on, and to make sure that the training that physicians receive and nurses receive have at least a little bit of hospice, a little bit of palliative care awareness.”

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JANUARY 15, 2024

She is a Robert Wood Johnson, Future of Nursing Scholar (2017-2020) and Jonas Scholar for Chronic Health (2017-2020). She is a Robert Wood Johnson, Future of Nursing Scholar (2017-2020) and Jonas Scholar for Chronic Health (2017-2020).

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APRIL 19, 2023

Q4 2022, for example, saw the slowest volume of PE acquisitions since late 2017, the M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart reported. PE firms tend to finance their acquisitions by taking on debt, meaning that the flow of dollars may slow as borrowing gets more expensive.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Their affiliate CVNA has participated in the program since 2017, and they first brought up the prospect of taking up the banner following a request for proposals from Johns Hopkins earlier this year, according to Ford. After considering the idea and assessing their capabilities, Care Synergy reached out to Johns Hopkins.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Sky & Telescope / Dennis Di Cicco / 2017 It will probably be cloudy here, because it’s March in the NY Finger Lakes. You might enjoy an article comparing the path of the solar equinox in 2017 to the eclipse in 2024. Still, on the off chance we have a clear day, I prepare for the solar eclipse. My home is near the Path of Totality.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A major acquirer, Bristol has completed close to 20 deals since Webster purchased the company in 2017. Last year, Troy Backus became Bristol’s VP of mergers and acquisitions last October, after serving as the company’s vice president of business development since 2007.

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MAY 4, 2023

Prior to joining the Los Angeles-based law practice, Banach was at the helm at NHPCO since 2017. Edo Banach, former president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), has stepped into a new role as partner at Manatt Health, a division of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

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APRIL 20, 2022

Bristol is a large multi-regional player that has grown seven times larger since private equity firm Webster Equity Partners purchased the company in 2017. Bristol Hospice has acquired Hospice Select in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for an undisclosed sum. M&A advisory firm Agenda Health represented Hospice Select in the transaction.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021. Androscoggin’s New CHRO Maine-based Androscoggin Home Health Care + Hospice has a new chief human resources officer, Sarah Conroy. Conroy was previously a board member of the Maine State Society of Washington D.C.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

About 845 hospices provided care in rural-based regions in 2021, a drop from 878 organizations in 2017, the MedPAC report found. The volume of rural-based hospice providers in the United States has been declining in recent years.

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APRIL 4, 2024

The legislation has taken a circuitous route through Congress in recent years, repeatedly reintroduced without passing since 2017. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are essential in covering the gap in providers in rural communities,” Hoover said.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Palliative care in general can reduce health care costs by more than $4,000 per patient, according to a July 2017 study in Health Affairs. But what exactly do you mean, when you say you want to innovate?” It can also reduce the frequency of 911 calls, emergency department visits, and unnecessary hospitalizations.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

2017 and was promoted to CEO in early 2021. He has accepted a position at a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Brady joined the Maryland-based hospice provider as CFO in Dec. The organization’s board has appointed COO Rebecca Miller as the company’s interim president and CEO.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The research follows up on a 2017 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Economist to gauge whether perceptions of health care had changed in the intervening years, particularly in light of the pandemic. health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

2017; Li et al., Former international guidelines advised that a patient could be clinically identified as septic if they met two or more of the SIRS criteria (below) with a suspected or confirmed source of infection, and many organisations have continued this practice (Marik & Taeb, 2017). Recognising sepsis in clinical practice.

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

Overall, buyout volume fell by more than 35% in 2022’s second half compared with the first half of the year, with Q4 having the lowest quarterly health care private equity deal activity since 2017. On the year, total disclosed deal value reached around $90 billion globally, down from $151 billion in 2021.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2022

Sinai in 2017 to provide hospital-at-home services. Contessa, a subsidiary of Amedisys, Inc., NASDAQ: AMED) and Mount Sinai Health system have expanded their joint venture to form a new entity offering a larger continuum of care, branded as Mt. Sinai at Home. Tennessee-based Contessa first partnered with Mt.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

The cohort study analyzed site-of-death data from 2005 through 2017, including more than 7.5 Cancer patients in states with laws that require health care providers to provide palliative consultations were more likely to die in the home or in an inpatient hospice setting versus the hospital, a JAMA Network Open study found.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

” The performance improvement initiative began at the end of 2017 to address concerns about lower-than-expected metrics related to the medical center’s organ donation process. The number of organ donors in 2021 was 31, with more than 22 donors in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

since 2017, according to a newly released claim report published by the Nurses Service Organization (NSO), a division of Aon Affinity. The average total incurred amount of a nurse practitioner malpractice claim has increased to $332,137 – a jump of more than 10.5%

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JUNE 6, 2023

Atlantic General Hospital in Maryland saw costs fall by almost a third after implementing a similar program, according to a 2017 report in Mathematica Policy Research. Fletcher expects that the new program can ease some of that financial burden while reducing readmission rates and frequent ER visits. Some research supports that prediction.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tennessee-based Contessa in 2017 launched a JV with Mount Sinai Health System to provide hospital-at-home services, which later expanded to include community-based palliative care. The partnership is the latest in a string of JVs for Contessa. These partnerships have become a pillar of the company’s business model during the past five years.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

percent of the total distribution in the 2017 dataset to 20.3 percent compared to the 2017 dataset ($300,506). Family and adult-gerontology primary care have consistently represented the majority of NP claims across 2012, 2017, and 2022 claim report datasets. percent of the total distribution in the 2022 dataset.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

1, 2017, to July 31, 2022, to examine potential racial and ethnic disparities among pediatric palliative populations. “We Racial inequities exist in the delivery and quality of pediatric palliative care services, the analysis , published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal, found. The research spanned data from Jan.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2022

billion in 2017 alone, she indicated. Assistant HHS Inspector General Erin Bliss raised concerns during the hearing about MA plans using chart reviews or in-home health risk assessments to diagnose patients, often without additional follow-up. Payments related to those assessments cost Medicare $2.6

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JUNE 17, 2022

Nevertheless, only about 45% of the chronically ill have documented their wishes, according to 2017 research in Health Affairs. Not only do these factors have the potential to reduce health care costs, but they can help ensure patients receive goal-concordant care in their final days.

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