Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

Like many providers, VITAS has traversed some rough terrain since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020. The company expected the program to bring in roughly 25 new health care workers each month during 2023 at an estimated cost of $40 million, which VITAS hopes to offset with increased volume as staffing gains drive up capacity.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Since 2020, the company has been beleaguered by the staffing shortage, reduced lengths of stay, and disruption in skilled nursing, senior housing, and to some extent acute-care referrals. These factors, along with the return of Medicare sequestration, have contributed to declining revenues. from the prior year.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff. Francis, the organization rebranded in 2020 to reflect its expanded scope of community-based services in an area with a growing need for serious illness and end-of-life care. Formerly Hospice of St. and 59.2%, respectively.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The findings in this report reflect patients who received care in Calendar Year (CY) 2021, or Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, provided by hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Most beneficiaries switch to Traditional Medicare. of White, 36.3%

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

A nationwide survey from Pew Research Center in 2020 of more than 8,600 African Americans found that nearly three-quarters identify their belief system as some type of Christian faith, while 3% identify as non-Christians. Reimbursement avenues focused on improving disparities are widening in and around hospice.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Also in 2020 came the launch of partnership between Livio Health and cancer care provider Minnesota Oncology. The collaboration was developed to offer home-based palliative care to Medicare Advantage beneficiaries covered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, parent company of Livio Health.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Lawmakers have an essential role in ensuring the viability of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, according to Davis Baird, director for government affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). So, having those conversations about what those improvements would be is going to be an important exercise in 2024.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. CMS has extended virtual care in Medicare in mental health to the extent of our authority, and Congress has extended a lot of the telehealth flexibilities beyond the public health emergency. Other disciplines have also seen high rates of loss.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. 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). In 2010, the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

My last company, Apixio, we sold in 2020. We do traditional Medicare. We do a combination of fee-for-service and case rate contracts with plans we work with, for Medicaid, Medicare and commercial lines of business, including Medicare Advantage. The others that I’ve worked with are more data analytics-oriented.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Chicago-based Oak Street Health consists of a network of value-based primary care facilities that serve upwards of 145,000 Medicare beneficiaries across 21 states.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Like many in the space, the hospice provider has been fighting an uphill battle against COVID headwinds to varying degrees since 2020, including a slower flow in their referral streams, falling lengths of stay, and a reduced average daily census during some quarters. VITAS is a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Contributing to these declines were constraints on clinical capacity stemming from the labor shortage, as well as some instances of lower reimbursement for its home health services due to the shift of more patients towards Medicare Advantage, executives said in an earnings call. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

million people worldwide who need palliative care actually receive these services, according to a separate 2020 WHO report. Payment streams lack what’s needed to support the palliative workforce of clinicians, social workers and spiritual care providers. Only 14% of an estimated 56.8

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

The health care startup currently provides interdisciplinary services in 28 states to 30,000 seniors who suffer from chronic health conditions and social determinants issues. This is up from 1,700 patients in three states in 2020. The whole team of nurses, social workers and chaplains were so committed to their patients,” Sheehan said.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Telehealth extension: The legislation extends hospice telehealth flexibilities through the end of 2024, which were initially enacted as part of the CARES Act in 2020. There is no requirement for hospices to use MFTs or MHCs and a social worker is still required if needed under a patient’s plan of care.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

In November of 2020, I lost my mom to pancreatic cancer. When you talk about an interdisciplinary team coming into your home — nurses, a social worker, chaplain, having access to the physician, volunteers — people are automatically going to think that there’s a cost associated with that. We were able to bring her home.

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Traditions Health

AUGUST 21, 2023

Better quality of life A 2020 study shows that when people receive home health care, they increase their physical activity and are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital. If you’re eligible, Medicare, Veteran Affairs, or private insurance covers home health care services.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In her decades of service, Lund Person has served as a key contact with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and helped ensure that policymakers hear the hospice voice. Caring for the widow of a Veteran, an MJHS social worker learned of the patient’s dying wish to be buried with her husband at the Calverton National Cemetery.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

She then served as associate vice president of health equity and access at AccentCare following Seasons’ merger with the company in 2020, before moving on to her current role at Empassion Health. That really goes hand-in-hand with collecting social determinants of health data and demographic data, and then building that network.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Hope’s hospice program also provides: Social workers to assist with medical paperwork and resources. Hospice is a vastly underused Medicare benefit in the United States. But the decision is also empowering, because an array of supportive care and assistance becomes available to both the patient and family. Grief support.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is contributing to the company’s optimism. VITAS is the nation’s largest provider of hospice care by market share, according to 2020 data from LexisNexis. For VITAS in particular, increases in clinical capacity has fostered steady growth during 2023. This, in tandem with a 3.1%

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

From a business perspective, patient populations who experienced longer lengths of stay boosted hospice margins by as much as 20% during 2016, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The divestiture fits into Humana’s stated goal of raising its enterprise value by $1 billion , while building out its health care services and Medicare Advantage business. The company began as the fourth largest provider of Medicare-certified home health services and the 12th largest provider of Medicare-certified hospice services nationally.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’m a geriatrically trained social worker and it was my grandmother. Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. Greg: Yeah, great question. Eric: And Susan?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The company is a value-based organization that partners with primary care physicians nationwide to jointly take on the total cost and quality of care for their senior patients through Medicare Advantage or the the U.S. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers. We bring insights.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I did all of my research training in health services research, health policy, and then was very grateful to be recruited by Dr. Christine Ritchie when she transitioned here to MGH in September of 2020. They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. That’s the problem.

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