Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Rising demand and demographic tailwinds are propelling rapid growth in both the hospice and palliative care markets. A large concern is whether there will be enough hospice and palliative care providers to keep pace with demand, according to Brian Tanquilut, equity analyst in health care services at investment banking company Jeffries LLC.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has voted to recommend a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The 2021 aggregated Medicare hospice margin was 13.3%, according to MedPAC.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations. So, for access to rural care, we’re going to have to depend on smaller rural programs.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) recently re-introduced legislation designed to expand the palliative care workforce. The bipartisan-supported Provider Training in Palliative Care Act aims to increase the number of clinicians trained in palliative care as long-standing labor shortages continue to hinder access. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unity Hospice and Palliative Care of Greater Houston has unveiled a five-year general inpatient (GIP) service agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Health. The hospice will provide GIP care across the health system’s four hospitals. Unity Hospice and Palliative Care serves 13 counties in Texas.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has recommended to Congress a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. The 2021 aggregated Medicare hospice margin was 13.3%, according to MedPAC. More than 49% of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice care during 2022, up from 47.3% decline from 2018.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Partners in Care took this unusual step after pursuing every other available means of redress, including the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) review and appeals process, according to CEO Greg Hagfors. The lawsuit contends that the claims denials denied Partners in Care its right to procedural due process.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

Beginning in 2021, numerous reports emerged of unethical or illegal practices among hundreds of newly licensed hospices, particularly among new companies popping up in California, Texas, Nevada and Arizona. California’s Department of Justice (CDOJ) in 2021 issued a report detailing the state’s history of lax oversight. “The

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) is seeking answers about hospice patients’ access to certain high-cost services. Among them were questions about patients’ utilization of complex care services including blood transfusions, chemotherapy, radiation or dialysis. I think this is a start of that conversation.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

Data are key to understanding how value-based care has helped highlight quality benefits of hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sunsetting the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) as of Dec.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

National health care expenditures in the U.S. trillion in 2021, according to a new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). These sources continue to provide funding in 2021, but at much lower levels and in 2020.”. The health care sector accounted for 18.3%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Before joining Guaranteed, Malone served as vice president of sales and partnerships at mental health provider Thriveworks since 2021. Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services. The health system offers hospice and palliative care, along with urgent and emergency services, primary and pediatric care, as well as women’s health services, among others.

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Hospice News

MARCH 30, 2023

Ohio’s Hospice is deepening its relationship with United Church Homes (UCH) to expand hospice and palliative care options for the senior living and support services organization’s residents. The UCH partnership will also include Pure Healthcare, the palliative care and supportive services arm of Ohio’s Hospice, established in 2020.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Regardless of where value-based payment is heading in the larger Medicare reimbursement landscape, hospices can anticipate some lasting impacts within their payment realm, including the possibility of more upfront financial risks, Wise indicated. Within fee-for-service, [the U.S. Hospice News / RoboToaster Hospice News / RoboToaster Dr.

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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.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

Joining forces will also allow the two Pennsylvania-based nonprofit hospice and palliative care providers to realize cost-savings potential when it comes to purchasing durable medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies. Nearly 74,000 beneficiaries in Pennsylvania utilized the hospice benefit in 2021, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A lack of trust and cultural competence are two factors fueling disparities in advance care planning and palliative care among underserved African American communities. Black populations have long-faced a history of racism that has affected the ways they access and receive care, according to a recent study.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

As Jimmy Carter marks his sixth month in hospice care, the provider community is raising awareness by saluting the former president. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) convened a group of hospice leaders at Times Square in New York City to commemorate Carter’s hospice experience. In 2021 alone, more than 1.7

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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. Its staff of 3,330 and more than 2,430 volunteers care for more than 72,000 patients annually in 35 Florida counties and four in Georgia. “As Census Bureau.

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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. million Medicare beneficiaries elected the benefit in 2021, up from 1.43 This looks really questionable.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Without family caregivers, most hospice and palliative care patients would be unable to receive care in the home. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled in July 2023. Hospices have increasingly recognized a growing need to ramp up support aimed at improving access to services such as respite care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Agape first entered Georgia in 2021 with a de novo in the Augusta community, near the South Carolina border. Later that year, the company purchased Serenity Care and Integrity Hospice in separate transactions, both in the town of Dublin, Ga. Our team is excited to welcome the 135 new teammates from GHC Hospice joining Agape Care Group.

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NHPCO

MARCH 5, 2024

For Immediate Release March 4, 2024 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) responded to today’s announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that as of December 31, 2024, the hospice benefit component of the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model will conclude.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

Family Resource’s strategic growth plans fall in line with those of many end-of-life care providers in the industry – a response to swelling aging populations that are driving up demand for hospice nationwide. More than 29,350 Medicare beneficiaries utilized hospice in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Oregon-based Compassion & Choices is a national end-of-life care advocacy organization focused on building health equity. Researchers at the nonprofit examined 58 studies published between 2018 and 2021 on these disparities. Hispanics made up 6.7% Caucasians represented the remaining 80%, NHPCO reported.

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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.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.”. The halt on licensing took effect Jan. Medi-Cal is the state’s Medicaid program.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Concern is mounting around whether current health equity initiatives will be a flash in the pan or yield long term improvement on reducing disparities in hospice care among communities of color. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Black Americans died at 1.4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Mission Hospice, By the Bay Health, and Hope Hospice share a rich history and commitment to serving the Bay Area community with comprehensive end-of-life care, education, and grief support,” said Mission Hospice CEO Dolores Miller, in a statement. Favorable demographics are also driving demand.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

of all Medicare hospice patients in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Similar to other underserved populations, fear of discrimination and mistrust are the biggest walls between Native Americans and hospice care, according to Craig Dresang, CEO of California-based YoloCares.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Roughly 78% of hospice and palliative care providers around the globe indicated “less or much less” use of volunteers since the pandemic’s onset, according to a 2022 study in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Providers’ efforts to recruit volunteers could take on renewed urgency when the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. This is the path we took to integrating that.”. This is truly a 50/50 joint venture. About 47.6% that year.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Most Americans know how they want their end-of-life care to be handled, but roughly 1 in 3 actually document those plans, a recent study indicates. In 2021, Cigna Health Insurance entered a partnership with Koda Health to provide a platform for advanced care planning on a national scale.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

During 2021, Choice completed 10 transactions within the home health and hospice space. Our journey at Choice has always been about creating a continuum of care in the home,” Trina Lanier, president of Choice and co-founder of its hospice and home health segments, said in a statement. The state’s 1.3 million seniors represent 18.3%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Established in 1991, OpusCare provides hospice and palliative care in Florida, Georgia and Texas. OpusCare persisted in its efforts on opening the center in response to rising demand and the need for Rising demand and the need for expanded end-of-life care for patients. It was a labor of love, but truly a dream come true.”

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