Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

The seeds of the plan were planted in 2018 when the legislature established the state’s Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. This spring, Kansas launched a five-year plan to make palliative care more accessible to its nearly 3 million residents.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As the need for palliation grows, outcomes and experiences vastly vary – with payment often at the crux of inconsistencies in quality and care delivery approaches. The topics range from unmet staff and patient needs, financial and operational headwinds and research fueling innovative care delivery approaches.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2018 designated psilocybin as a “breakthrough therapy” for major depressive disorder, which paved the way for expanded clinical trials. Canada-based Psyence Biomed has completed a merger with Newcourt Acquisition Corp.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

ID-PALL was piloted in a study among seven internal medicine units at hospitals in Switzerland between January and December 2018. Oncology nurses at cancer centers across the country are developing ways to improve palliative care referrals for seriously ill patients and families who could benefit from these services.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

She was previously on the organization’s board of directors between 2018 and 2022, serving as chair for part of that time. “IL-HPCO The Illinois Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (IL-HPCO) has penned a three-year association management contract with The HAP Foundation to provide counsel and operational support.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Researchers compared health outcomes among 183 patients with incurable, advanced types of cancers from 2014 to 2018 to determine an association between palliative care and health utilization metrics. billion during 2018, according to a recent Market.us palliative care market will reach $78.50 billion by 2023, a climb from $49.42

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

We did raise that concern, and they proposed a mechanism for dealing with it,” Harold Miller, president and CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, said at a public HHS meeting in 2018. The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A 2018 study showed that most students in clinical disciplines do not feel prepared to provide family care at the end of life. Palliative care education programs are gaining speed regionally, leading some to hope for a “domino effect” that would spur further growth. Regional programs cropping up.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The decision sparked outcries in some communities, including donors who in 2018 contributed a combined $2 million to launch the program, the Cascadia Daily News reported. The PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center is resuming its outpatient palliative care program after shutting it down in May. The post PeaceHealth St.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

billion during 2018, according to a recent Market.us billion during 2018, according to a recent Market.us Roughly 95 million people will fall into this age group by then, nearly double the 52 million seniors nationwide in 2018, PRB indicated. But ongoing labor pressures remain a risk point. billion by 2030, a rise from $34.5

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2023

Broadly, MA plans have been expanding supplemental benefits to include palliative care since 2018, when the U.S. Federal regulators are cracking down on the private insurers that administer Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. In turn, that could dampen the growth of palliative care supplemental benefits in MA moving forward.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

At 30%, the Empire State ranked 50th in utilization among the states and the District of Columbia in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice, and palliative care. That must change.”. About 17.4%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A research team led by Qinjin Fan, senior scientist, health services research at the American Cancer Society, examined National Cancer Database data for more than 333,000 adults who had been newly diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2018 and 2019 in the contiguous United States. Health outcomes are unequal. The post U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

million allocated in the state’s budget during 2018. Massachusetts legislators recently allocated more than $8.7 million in the state’s 2023 fiscal year budget to support pediatric palliative care access. The funding is intended to support expanded palliative care services for seriously and terminally ill children amid rising demand.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

Overall African Americans, Asians and Hispanics combined made up less than 20% of all Medicare hospice patients in 2018, while Caucasians represented the remaining 80%, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. Mertz Photography Mertz Photography Atonia Garret at the 2023 Palliative Care Conference.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

At a rate of 57.9%, Florida ranked fourth nationwide for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in 2018, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported. Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc. The program will accept two fellows annually. subsidiary (NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare. Utah held the highest rate at 60.5%

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . The bill would also expand continuing education and career development programs and incentives in these fields.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Iowa ranked seventh nationwide in hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in 2018, with 56.2% Iowa-based Hospice of Washington County is rebuilding and relocating its administrative offices, which also houses the provider’s palliative care clinic. By 2030, seniors are projected to make up more than a quarter or 26.9% of the population.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2018 designated psilocybin as a “breakthrough therapy” for major depressive disorder, which paved the way for expanded clinical trials. A new, publicly traded company devoted to exploring the use of psychedelics in palliative care is in development.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Historically these benefits were very limited, but Congress in 2018 expanded the range of those benefits to include programs to address some social determinants of health as well as home-based palliative care. “I wouldn’t read too much into it. ” Home Health Care News Editor Andrew Donlan contributed to this report. .

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2022

The United States lacks a robust reimbursement system for palliative care. While stakeholders work towards change, providers are developing innovative ways to work with what they have to bring this care to patients in need. Historically, the U.S. We’ve brainstormed, tried things out that didn’t work and then tried something else.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Since 2018, ACO growth has been flat, but improvements made by CMS will reverse that trend. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are becoming an important source of palliative care reimbursement, and a recently proposed rule from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could potentially increase their number.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2022

Four academic institutions are collaborating to test the ways community health workers could enhance palliative care for African American cancer patients. So it could be that whole spectrum —palliative care early in the trajectory of the illness through end of life.”. They were strong advocates and had worked to empower patients.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Ginn began leading financial teams at Amedisys in 2007, while Guidroz previously served as senior vice president of accounting at Amedisys since June 2018. He joined the hospice provider in 2015 as director of market development before moving up the ranks to general manager in 2018 and senior general manager in 2022.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A look back at Palliative Care News’ five most-read stories this year paints a picture of trends shaping the serious illness care space. Securing reimbursement — and the promise of value-based contracts — continues to be top of mind for many palliative care providers as they look ahead to 2024.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

of Medicare decedents who received hospice care in 2018 had a kidney condition as their principal diagnosis, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

OIG, on behalf of CMS, informed the hospice that it would be audited in a May 2018 letter. “We were given a mostly favorable decision by the administrative law judge, and CMS appealed that decision to the CMS panel,” Hagfors told Hospice News. “We’ve The audit examined medical and billing records for 100 patients from Jan.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Incidentally, as of 2018 Utah also had the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents at 60.5%, compared to that year’s national average of 50.3%, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). For deaths at home, for example, the report included numbers from 2018 to 2021.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

Researchers followed the care of 15,152 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias who moved to residential or assisted living facilities with more than 25 beds between 2016 and 2018. In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5% of the nation’s 1.7 with senile degeneration of the brain and 3.5%

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

The research spanned two studies that examined the occurrence of end-of-life care referrals during 2018 among 28,697 hospitalized patients diagnosed with metastatic cancer in the Garden State. Roughly 82% of Medicare decedents in 2018 were Caucasian, according to NHPCO. were Hispanic; 1.8% were Asian; and only 0.4%

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

” LifeTouch has been struggling financially for several years and has operated in the red since 2018. The agency has reported net income ranging between $517,000 in 2018 and more than $1.3 The organization finished 2017 with a net income of slightly more than $107,000. But the following year, it reported a more than $1.5

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

decline from 2018. Hospital-based and home health-based hospices have access to capital through their parent providers.” Close to 5,900 hospices operated in the United States during 2002. Of those, 1,169 were nonprofits, a 1.4% Utilization is also on the rise. in 2021, the commission reported. increase to keep pace with inflation. “At

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Pallimed

JULY 11, 2022

I am still surprised this Tweet happened as recently as 2018! hpm — Kayla Sheehan, MD (@kksheehan) July 23, 2018 I do not expect that to happen in the future. by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) We have entered a new age! Spread the word! Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is the fifth largest medical subspecialty!

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

The Sunshine State in 2018 ranked third nationwide for hospice utilization at 57.9% The number of seniors 60 and older totaled 577,550 in the county alone during 2018, according to a report from the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and the Brevard County Commission on Aging. A team of St. Formerly Hospice of St.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2022

of Medicare decedents in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. When it comes to communication and quality of care for Black patients, recent data reinforces the notion that hospices have room to grow. Hospice utilization among diverse populations is sorely lacking. African Americans made up a mere 8.2%

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2022

The number of physicians who report feelings of burnout grew to 58% by 2020, up from 40% in 2018, according to a summer 2021 study in the Journal of Medical Practice Management. hospice and palliative care physician specialists for every 100,000 adults 65 and older, according to an April 2018 study. It is tantamount to good care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

From around January 2018 through May 2021, Akhsharumov used his two hospice companies to defraud Medicare of approximately $9 million,” the U.S. Justice Department has sentenced two individuals linked to California hospices on alleged False Claims Act violations, among other charges. million in restitution.

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