Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2023

Researchers analyzed 2020 claims data to identify associations between SIA utilization and hospice Medicare beneficiaries’ characteristics such as site of service, level of care and length of stay, among others. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced SIA in 2016.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Current reimbursement structures within the federally established Medicare Hospice Benefit do not sufficiently support the level of care needed in rural-based communities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). “We House of Representatives’ Ways and MeansCommittee.

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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. million in improper Medicare payments. HHS-OIG agents will continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners to investigate providers who loot the Medicare Trust Fund.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 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. Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Currently, more than 10,000 individuals become Medicare-eligible each day, a trend expected to last for several more years, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. 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.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

PCHETA was first introduced in 2017. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2.8% In the midst of these challenges, some lawmakers may have an appetite for PCHETA, as more recognize the potential cost savings that hospice and palliative care can generate for Medicare. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Many hospice providers rely on Medicare Advantage (MA) reimbursement to support palliative care, PACE and social determinants programs, among others. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) laid out its policy for validating MA plans’ risk adjustment data, which the agency uses to calculate capitation rates.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

About 18% of hospices nationwide operated in rural areas in 2021, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). About 845 hospices provided care in rural-based regions in 2021, a drop from 878 organizations in 2017, the MedPAC report found.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

DOJ counts hospice claims among the root causes of rising Medicare costs in recent years, according to Lisa Miller, deputy assistant attorney general overseeing the department’s Crime Fraud Section. Medicare hospice claims represent a solid chunk, according to regulators. million.

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Hospice News

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. Another caregiving agency in the area serves patients on Medicaid or Medicare, but their availability is limited.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

The organization finished 2017 with a net income of slightly more than $107,000. Life Touch cited the difficulty of small nonprofit hospices competing with large providers as well as forces in “the evolving health care market” and anticipated “massive” changes in how Medicare reimburses for hospice care in the coming years. “As

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2023

Prior to joining the Los Angeles-based law practice, Banach was at the helm at NHPCO since 2017. Before joining NHPCO, he was a partner at health care firm Gallagher Evelius & Jones LLP, and as general counsel at the Medicare Rights Center. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Lawmakers have an essential role in ensuring the viability of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, according to Davis Baird, director for government affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). So, having those conversations about what those improvements would be is going to be an important exercise in 2024.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2023

This is a projected 37% increase from 2017. Allison attributed the decline primarily to the return of Medicare sequestration. 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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Tennessee-based Contessa and Mount Sinai first partnered in 2017 to provide these services, adding Mount Sinai’s home health agency into the fold with the expansion. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

Many are unaccustomed to working with private payers as their core business is reimbursed almost entirely through the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to start covering it as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

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. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Texas runs high, reaching 52.1% Bristol Hospice has acquired Hospice Select in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S. This includes numerous calls for dedicated community-based palliative care benefit within Medicare. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

Are you in an outlier scenario with your data that Medicare contractors are looking at? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Young told Hospice News.

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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. Medicare is thinking about it. In Nova Scotia, we’ve had a number of conversations.

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Hospice News

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. We know that only about 51% Medicare beneficiaries in any given year are utilizing hospice.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

Nevertheless, only about 45% of the chronically ill have documented their wishes, according to 2017 research in Health Affairs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), can impose regulatory sanctions or civil monetary penalties. State and federal authorities, including the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large managed care plans have been squarely in DOJ’s crosshairs for years, but a late July 2023 Justice Department settlement agreement with one regional healthcare provider’s Medicare Advantage Plan offers a glimpse into an issue health systems and providers with their own managed care plans need to track. 340, 2017 WL 4564722 (C.D.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

percent of the total distribution in the 2017 dataset to 20.3 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 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.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

Greene joined Bluegrass Care Navigators in 2017 as its vice president and chief hospice officer and brings 15 years of hospital leadership experience. Commonly called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the VBID program requires participating hospices to offer palliative care upstream.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

These types of data will also be important when hospices begin to negotiate rates with private payers through value-based programs like Medicare Advantage. The Kansas-based company reports that it has quadrupled in size since 2017, now employing a staff of 2,200 worldwide.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Colorado-based hospice provider began offering PACE programming in 2017. Most PACE participants are reimbursed through the long-term care programs within Medicare and Medicaid, according to Black.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

The number of deals in 2017 and 2018 hit 20 and 19, respectively, before slumping downward during the pandemic in recent years. Through the hospice benefit, Medicare covers nearly 90% of a provider’s patient care revenue. We’re at a very disruptive point in the M&A landscape,” Kulk told Hospice News.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JULY 21, 2022

Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act. But onward to post-acute care and what we see coming in the future. .

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). By contrast, Andrew Kolodny has published three QPAs since September 2019 (131-133), after he corrected his COI disclosures for JAMA articles from 2017 and 2018 (102-105). 2017 Mar 1;177(3):427-428. Oncologist.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 28, 2022

April 2022, however, also brings us a renewed approach and initiatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its National Quality Strategy. 2017 – CMS developed a new quality measures framework focused on increasing measure alignment across CMS programs and other public and private initiatives.

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Hospice Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2020

On December 3, 2020, MEDPAC reviewed hospice data from 2019, noting these key metrics: Medicare payments grew just under 10% to $20.9 MEDPAC never gives direct numbers, but reported that in 2018, 16% of hospices exceeded the cap, up from 14% in 2017. Historically in 2016 and 2017, 1% of Medicare hospice payments were over the cap.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Additionally, Medicare pays 100% for home hospice with no copays or deductibles. More and more people are choosing to die at home.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While that’s lower than last year, it does put us on par with pre-COVID levels and the 2017-2018 timeframe on a relative basis. Further, roughly 10,000 to 12,000 seniors turn 65 years old every day, and the supply of new seniors entering the benefits of Medicare home health and hospice continues to grow.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Having a method to keep track of, and review closely, financial relationships with physicians who refer Medicare patients. 1] See Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) of the Treadway Commission, Enterprise Risk Management: Integrating with Strategy and Performance: Executive Summary (2017), [link]. [2]

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 14, 2022

On April 11, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System for fiscal year 2023. . In October 2017, CMS launched the Meaningful Measures Framework.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Remember when I wrote to you all in a January 2017 blog titled, “ Is your rehab partner wearing blinders? An excerpt from that blog here: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has consulted with Acumen in an effort to establish a comprehensive approach to Medicare Part A PPS SNF payment reform. Well, great news!

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