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Growing Palliative Care a Key Priority for Amedisys in 2024

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Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) is pushing forward on palliative care growth in 2024 through its innovation arm, Contessa. The company acquired Contessa in 2021 for $250 million. million beneficiaries. million beneficiaries.

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Contessa’s Lessons Learned on Risk-Based Palliative Care

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As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million.

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Kaiser Permanente Care at Home Opens Hospice De Novo

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The new location is the most recent of a series of investments that Kaiser has made in the home setting, including hospice and palliative care. Two years ago Kaiser united its home-based services in Southern California and Hawaii under a single division — Care at Home — led by Vice President Angel Vargas.