2020 Care coordinator Hospice care Medicare 
Hospice News
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Live discharges can occur for a number of reasons, including the patient or family changing their minds about receiving hospice care, or the patient improves and no longer needs those services. A patient may choose to resume curative treatment, or they might move out of the hospice’s service area. About 15.4% Of those, 5.7%
Hospice News
JULY 8, 2022
Among patients who received inpatient discharge instructions indicating hospice, nearly 1 in 10 did not enroll within 30 days of leaving the hospital, according to recent research from Trella Health. The company used data from the last quarter of 2020 and the third of 2021. This perspective is backed by other research.
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Hospice News
JANUARY 1, 2024
“We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
“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. Its hospice utilization rate reached 60.5%
Hospice News
JANUARY 2, 2023
The possibility exists that hospice care will change more in the next few years than it has during the previous four decades. The Medicare Hospice Benefit turned 40-years-old in 2022, and in that time the program has remained fundamentally unchanged. For one, more people know about hospice. This is down from 51.6%
Hospice News
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Vast disparities in hospice utilization exist among some groups and demographics. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Despite rising demand for their services, many hospices are seeing their margins nibbled away by inflation, fuel expenses and labor and supply costs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) raised hospice per diems by 3.8% Some in the space have voiced concern that reimbursement has not kept pace with the headwinds.
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