Hospice News

JULY 13, 2022

More than a dozen hospice advocacy groups have called on congressional leadership to intervene in a proposed 2.7% bump in Medicare payments, which they say is insufficient in light of COVID-19 and staffing headwinds. Compensation costs for the health care and social assistance industry rose nearly 4.4

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

A huge need exists for neuropalliative care, Dr. Claire J. Creutzfeldt at the Harborview Medical Center’s Department of Neurology told Palliative Care News. Palliative care offers support for a variety of symptoms through interdisciplinary care. But, in addition, stroke leaves people with huge changes in identity.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

As the demand for palliative care continues to grow, so too has the way businesses have bolstered their programs to better serve patients. Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges. Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Croix Hospice has acquired Lombard, Ill.-based based Lexington Hospice Care. In addition to a spate of acquisitions, the Minnesota-based hospice provider has launched three de novos thus far in 2022. This follows six new locations they opened in 2021 and seven during 2020. . Financial terms were undisclosed.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been the focus of much attention among providers, and many are watching closely for the demonstration’s outcomes. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Utilization continuous home care has dropped precipitously during the past decade, with labor pressures, regulatory scrutiny and billing challenges as contributing factors. Continuous home care (CHC) represented 0.9% of hospice care days during 2022, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

Increasingly, both policymakers and providers are seeing potential opportunities to reform the Medicare Hospice Benefit, including the prospect of concurrent care. Driving these conversations is the need to lighten the nation’s heavy health care spend, which in 2021 reached $4.3 told Hospice News. “If

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This includes the revamping of the hospice survey process and the establishment of a Special Focus Program slated to begin in 2024, to name a few. What we would love for our lawmakers to do is really champion the program as it exists and make sure it’s protected from threats to its payment system,” Baird told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) is seeking answers about hospice patients’ access to certain high-cost services. CMS included a series of requests for information (RFIs) in its proposed 2024 hospice payment rule. CMS is getting on board with thinking through this problem,” Hoover told Hospice News. “We

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As hospices prepare for Medicare Advantage, more nonprofits are finding that creating partnerships or entering affiliations will better position themselves for payer negotiations. Nonprofit hospice affiliations have surged in 2022 and 2023. The program also includes components designed to expand access to palliative care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2023

It would have prohibited the establishment of for-profit hospices in New York state and forbid current for-profit operators from increasing capacity. . Data suggest that hospice care is underutilized in New York compared to other states, straining other elements of the health care system,” Hochul wrote in her veto.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

HCC scores are designed to predict the costs associated with a patient’s care. Patients with lower HCC scores often need hospice care for longer periods of time, though their care needs may be less intensive or complex. Dementia-related illnesses are the fastest growing primary terminal diagnosis among hospice patients.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Earlier in the year, Yonah Klein was appointed director of strategy at Unity Hospice and Palliative Care. Technology a key to growing home-based hospice care, workforce The future of end-of-life care is heading further into the home, according to Klein. Skelly Wingard, became CEO of By the Bay Health in June.

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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%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Experience with value-based care Value-based reimbursement is a rising tide, particularly for AccentCare’s diverse business lines. Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) are making big inroads in the home health and palliative care markets, and hospice continues to inch in that direction.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

Things improved in 2020, the most recent year for which data are available, but not enough to put them in the black. In its place, the organization made agreements with local hospitals to provide inpatient hospice care in their facilities. Meanwhile, Arkansas Hospice has fared better.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

“For a hospice administrator or executive, you really have to be very focused on your length of stay data,” Young told Hospice News in a recent Elevate podcast episode. 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.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

Palliative care providers have a limited window into the disparities plaguing underserved populations when it comes to access and awareness of their serious illness care options, according to Nicole McCann-Davis, vice president of communications and chief health equity officer at Empassion Health.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care recently opened a new inpatient hospice care center inside the Melbourne Regional Medical Center. A swelling demand for hospice in the community spurred the unit’s development. Formerly Hospice of St. Florida-based St. A team of St. Only Utah and Arizona saw higher rates at 59.4%

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Spiritual hospice care providers are an important link to building bridges of access and trust among underserved African American populations. The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Chambers sat down with Hospice News to talk about her career trajectory and the ways the industry is evolving.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

Last summer, Pennant purchased Ardent Hospice and Palliative Care in the San Diego region for a confidential amount. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide health care services through 97 home health and hospice locations in 14 western and midwestern states. And in 2020, about 54.1%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Florida-based Hope Healthcare has affiliated with Chapters Health System, a nonprofit provider of hospice, palliative care and home health, among other services. Combined with its affiliates, Chapters Health is the largest nonprofit hospice provider in the nation and the sixth overall. Census Bureau.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

NHPCO Facts and Figures is the leading resource for hospice providers and others interested in understanding the work of the community. The 2023 Facts and Figures report continues to see the impact of COVID-19 on patient care and the effect of the COVID-19 waivers to the traditional delivery of hospice care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2023

KHCH began providing home care services in Warsaw, Indiana, in 1976 before adding hospice care to the mix in 1982. The nonprofit also offers palliative care and has a service region that spans six counties in the area. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Indiana reached a rate of 47.3%

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

SEIU analyzed Medicare claims data showing that the average hospice transfer rate among HCA hospital discharges was nearly 40% above the national average in 2021 and represented a 50% growth rate over four years. For one, hospice utilization has been on a steady upswing nationally for several years. told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

“The scholarship is a dependable way to assist hospice home care aids in furthering their careers, voicing their stories on the importance [of] what caregiving means to them and emphasize the changes that have occurred in their patients’ lives,” Winthorpe said in a statement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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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. Much of the debate has centered around regulation.

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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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NHPCO

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the 2022 edition of NHPCO Facts and Figures , an annual report on key data points related to the delivery of hospice care, including information on patient characteristics, location and level of care, Medicare hospice spending, and hospice providers.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Startups such as Empathy, Betterleave Bereavement Care, Grief Refuge and Help Texts (formerly Grief Coach) have launched platforms designed to help families cope and assist with tasks such as funeral planning, account cancellations, legalities and financial arrangements. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

More than a third (34%) of family caregivers were Baby Boomers in 2020, according to a report from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC). About 21% indicated that their own health was poor in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. A piece of that access puzzle is the caregiver side of it,” Marcantio told Hospice News. “As

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Chapters Health System provides hospice, palliative and home health services throughout Florida, as well as durable medical equipment and pharmacy services. Hospice and palliative care brands affiliated with Chapters include Chapters Health Palliative Care, Good Shepherd Hospice, Hospice of Okeechobee, HPH Hospice, and LifePath Hospice.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. But the prevalence of mental health conditions and related concerns like isolation and substance abuse mean that hospice and behavioral health providers may need to find more ways to integrate their services.

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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

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