Hospice News
MARCH 23, 2023
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. The hospice component of VBID, also called the MA carve-in, launched in 2021 and was originally slated to complete after four years.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The Medicare Advantage program grew 8% between 2021 and 2022 — about 2.2 When it comes to hospice VBID, numbers from the program’s first year offer few clues for the 2023-2024 landscape. The program launched in 2021, coinciding with the height of the pandemic. million beneficiaries. Participation was small in year one.
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Hospice News
MAY 13, 2024
Research trends can help hospice providers improve their understanding around the impacts of their services and where quality gaps may exist. Their research found that coordinated telehealth visits with hospice interdisciplinary staff helped ease care transitions among young adults and children.
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.
Hospice News
MARCH 10, 2023
Croix provides hospice to nearly 4,000 patients daily across the Midwest. The hospice promoted Eric Lewis to chief accounting officer, who joined St. Croix in 2021 as vice president and controller. Most recently the hospice opened a de novo in Wisconsin, its 14th location in that state. “We
Hospice News
OCTOBER 20, 2022
SCAN Health Plan is among the Medicare Advantage (MA) payers entering the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) payment demonstration in 2023. The four-year program — often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — launched Jan. 1, 2021, with 53 participating health plans.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 13, 2022
But questions linger about their long-term sustainability — and what will happen in the labor market when hospices start phasing the bonuses out. This year, the average hourly wage for hospice aides and CNAs rose 9.09% in 2022, compared to a 4.52% increase in 2021, and the rate for nurses rose nearly 6%, the salary report indicated.
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