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St. Croix Hospice Leverages Predictive Analytics to Boost Quality

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In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses.

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Frontline Hospice Staff Need to Understand New CMS Survey Methods

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The changes in a nutshell CMS in 2021 announced revisions to its survey process to emphasize what the agency considers to be four core Conditions of Participation (COPs) — those most associated with the quality of care and services provided directly to the patient.

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Why CMS Extended VBID, MA Hospice Carve-In

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to extend the value-based insurance design (VBID) model through 2030: patients’ social needs, health equity and improved care coordination. Originally set to run between 2021 and 2024, CMS indicated yesterday that it would invest five additional years in the demonstration.

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CMS Unveils Dementia-Focused Payment Model with Interdisciplinary Care Approach

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Patients with these conditions represented the largest proportion of hospice patients by principal diagnoses in both 2019 (20.1%) and 2020 (18.5%), according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). By 2050, this is expected to nearly double to 12.7 million people.

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Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Uintah Basin

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“Since our founding, Canyon Home Care & Hospice has had a long-standing commitment to driving innovation and increasing access to high-quality home health and hospice care,” Eddie Norris, managing partner at Canyon, said in the announcement. Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide.

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Why Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Operators Invest in Home-Based Hospice Programs

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million Medicare decedents who elected hospice in 2019,, nearly half (49%) received care in private homes, reported the Center for Medicare Advocacy. Data are not available for how any of these patients were cared for by a freestanding hospice entering those settings versus an in-house service. Among the 1.6

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

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In 2019, the organization had just 200 members. Death doulas can help facilitate conversations regarding the dying process, discussing advance care planning, hospice election and advocate for the patient’s wishes in their final days. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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