Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Home-based palliative care could reduce societal health care costs by $103 billion within the next 20 years, the nonprofit economic research group Florida TaxWatch indicated in a 2019 report. Programs to address social determinants have likewise been found to reduce health care expenditures. million in savings within the first six months .

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Only 7% of community-based palliative care programs are operated by home health organizations, compared to about 50% for hospices and 7%, according to 2019 data from the Center to Advance Palliative Care. Currently, the palliative care space is dominated by hospices and health systems.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This was in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Congress mandated the SFP in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 , which contained language from the Helping Our Senior Population in Comfort Environments (HOSPICE) Act. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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JANUARY 2, 2025

The industry saw a flurry of M&A activity in 2019 and 2020, with record high valuations and deal volume. The hospice mergers and acquisitions market has seen a host of changes in recent years, with buyers and sellers examining a range of risks and opportunities in the field this year.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

population has little to no understanding of what palliative care is, including many clinicians in a position to refer patients and their families, according to a 2019 study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. An Irish study found that 4 in 10 adults prefer not to think or discuss palliative care. study indicated. study indicated. “An

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JULY 1, 2024

Between 2019 and 2021, the prevalence of chronic pain among adults nationwide ranged from 20.5% Between 2019 and 2021, the prevalence of chronic pain among adults nationwide ranged from 20.5% Chronic pain can be debilitating and often accompanies serious conditions that can warrant palliative care, such as cancer. response rate.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2022

At least 49 programs statewide provided community-based palliative care during 2019, reported the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Pennsylvania-based Homeland at Home recently added community-based palliative care to its repertoire of services in response to rising demand for this care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2023

The four legislators in 2019 co-founded the Senate’s bipartisan Comprehensive Care Caucus to focus on legislation and policy to raise awareness of and improve access to palliative care. The bill’s sponsors include Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), John Barrasso (R-Wy.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019. The hospice and senior care provider Helios Care is partnering with the integrated health system Bassett Healthcare Network to bring more extensive access to hospice and palliative care to patients in central New York.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2019, leaders set up a collaborative with researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health to diversify patient-care perspectives. To help combat the issue of burnout, Wu and his team met with a facilitator in 2019 and co-designed a wellness program called Thrive by Design.

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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

JUNE 7, 2023

of roughly 100 heart failure patients admitted to the West Haven, Connecticut-based VA hospital between October 2019 and September 2020, according to the study’s findings , recently published in the BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care journal. Palliative care was utilized by 6.5% Palliative care was utilized by 6.5%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Home-based palliative care could reduce societal health care costs by $103 billion within the next 20 years, the nonprofit economic research group Florida TaxWatch said in a 2019 report. Among Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits, in-home support services and caregiver support saw the most year-over-year growth for 2023.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Lamb joined Pennants board in 2019 as chairman of its auditing committee. She is charged with overseeing the home health and hospice providers Colleague Assistance Fund, which supports employees during times of personal need. The nonprofit organization has grown into one of the largest hospice providers in the nation. from 2008 to 2020.

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APRIL 3, 2025

AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, which purchased the provider from Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2019 for an undisclosed sum. AccentCare is primed for further hospice growth, with both health system joint ventures and de novo activity as twin cornerstones of its strategy.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. The reasons for this run the gamut. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Researchers analyzed records for 43,200 veterans with prior hospitalization who had received primary care at a VA site between October 2016 and September 2019. Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Close to half of community-based palliative care programs are operated by hospice agencies and 7% are operated by home health operators, according to 2019 data from the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Palliative Care Quality Collaborative data. The Washington, D.C.-based nTakt helps organizations launch palliative care programs.

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

Researchers from George Washington University and the University of Chicago examined data from more than 11 million unique hospice care episodes that occurred between 2008 and 2019. The 2019 average for dementia patients was 126 days, compared to 92.6 But the longest lengths of stay tend to be associated with particular diagnoses.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Case in point, Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2019 established a Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research backed by $17 million in grants. “We A new, publicly traded company devoted to exploring the use of psychedelics in palliative care is in development. Psyence Biomed, a subsidiary of the Canadian biotech company Psyence Group Inc.,

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

The study included patients between the ages of 18 to 64 who were newly diagnosed with stage 4 cancers between 2010 and 2019. More cancer patients have been receiving palliative care since the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid. About 18.9% 1, 2014, according to American Cancer Society research recently published in Health Affairs.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Rosen and Murkowski, initially tried to pass the palliative care training bill in 2019, and then again 2021. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) recently re-introduced legislation designed to expand the palliative care workforce. They also would provide primary care during their time of service with NHSC.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

” Health systems provide close to half of the palliative care delivered in the United States, according to 2019 research by the Center to Advance Palliative Care. .” Connecticut-based Stamford Health has relaunched an enhanced version of its shuttered palliative care program. Hospices provide most of the remaining 50%.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living. Rosen in 2019 co-founded the bipartisan Comprehensive Care Caucus with Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.).

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Muir joined the organization in 2019 as its chief of clinical innovations. He first joined that company as its executive vice president of clinical services and CMO in 2002 while holding a similar role at Hospice of the Piedmont from 2019 to 2020. Muir was previously chief innovation officer at Capital Caring Health.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The legislation was developed in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. We are severely concerned with the direction that CMS has taken on this program. We don’t have confidence in the algorithm that they proposed. But for now, his work in Congress continues.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, which purchased the provider from Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2019 for an undisclosed sum. Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021. Prior to joining AccentCare, Natarajan founded Chicago Primary Care Sports Medicine.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been a source of controversy since CMS announced its plans for the program in 2019. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

A proposed 2019 bill , the CONNECT for Health Act, would have allowed telehealth recertifications had it been enacted. The CMS position may not be the final word. Congress also has the option to make telehealth recertification permanent. Discussion of this issue actually predates the pandemic.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

Wenners founded Propero Health in 2019 and took the helm at Optum at Home early last year. The two companies are under the ownership of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) subsidiary Optum. Landmark reportedly joined Optum at the beginning of 2021. The Prospero-Landmark merger comes on the heels of UnitedHealth Group’s $5.4

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Researchers have identified a number of clinical benefits, including reduction of anxiety, depression and improved acceptance of mortality, according to a 2019 literature review in the journal Current Oncology. What hospices need to be aware of is that it’s not just the big picture, but also the little picture,” Ballentine told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

The patient records came from 280 cancer centers nationwide between 2015 and 2019. The study highlights a need for oncologists to revisit goals-of-care conversations with patients as they near the end of life, including discussions of hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can have an impact on mortality and morbidity among seriously ill patients, according to researchers of a 2019 study published in the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy. McPherson also serves on the board of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). About 81.5%

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

From March 2019 to August 2024, these companies allegedly submitted more than $54 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for services that were never provided and not needed.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

For the Health Affairs study, researchers examined 30-day readmission rates for Medicare patients who had been hospitalized between 2013 and 2019 for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia. Patients who had easy access to primary care providers were also less likely to return to the hospital.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

of hospice enrollees in 2019, up from 9% in 2002, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The average length of stay for those patients reached 126 days in 2019, compared to 92.6 Dementia patients represented 20.9% days for the overall hospice population.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

On average, the tenures of more than a third of hospice chaplains in the United States lasted only one to two years between 2010 and 2019, according to research from Zippia. More than 7,768 chaplains were employed by hospices nationwide in 2019, according to the Zippia report. Limited opportunities for training.

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