Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Hospice utilization reached 43.77% among Medicare decedents in Hawaii during 2022, according to a report from the National Alliance for Care at Home. This fell below the national average of 49.1% that year, the Alliance reported.

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About 15,900 Medicare decedents in Utah elected hospice in 2022, a rate of slightly more than 59%. Currently 13% of the state’s population of 2.8 million is over the age of 60, a number expected to rise to 17% by 2030.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The number of rural hospices declined by 1% on an annual basis between 2018 and 2022, according to a 2024 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) report. Rural caregivers often lack sufficient hospice resources, an increasingly challenging issue amid a swelling aging population with unmet end-of-life needs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

More than 16,000 people elected the hospice benefit in 2022, about 46% of the state’s Medicare decedents that year, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. “For us, this acquisition was an ‘easy’ decision because we knew we would not have to come in and clean up a ton of compliance/regulatory/quality outcome issues at all.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents reached 47.79% in Missouri during 2022, with rates reaching 52.23% in Texas that year, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. Seniors 65 and older represent 18.4% of Missouri’s overall population and 13.8% of Texas’, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents reached 52.23% in Texas during 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. Seniors 65 and older represent 13.8% of the states overall population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hospice utilization rates hovered at 49.1% nationwide that year, according to the Alliance report.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Close to 18,000 Medicare decedents in Kansas elected the hospice benefit in 2022, a rate of nearly 52%, which exceeded national averages that year, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. Administration for Community Living.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

billion in shared savings payments during the program’s 2022 to 2023 performance year, the highest dollar amount thus far, CMS reported. “We Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that its Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) yielded more than $2.1 ACOs participating in MSSP earned an estimated $3.1

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2025

Hospice utilization rates reached 26.34% among Medicare decedents in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. The two known for-profit hospices operating in New York have both been under the supervision of the states Department of Health, which to date has not found any issues with fraud or quality of care at either company.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2025

Accusations include billing Medicare for hospice services for patients who were not eligible during a scheme that lasted from September 2018 to October 2022. Two individuals on Tuesday were arrested for their alleged involvement in a $4.8 million Medicare fraud scheme. Normita Sierra, owner and operator of Golden Meadows Hospice Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2025

of adults across the United States had some type of serious mental illness in 2022, reported the National Institute of Mental Health. I think this is definitely something that we need to develop with palliative psychiatry, to become a part of more conventional mental health care. Roughly 6.0%

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2025

Female hospice registered nurses earned 95% of what males earned in 2022, according to the research. million in this age cohort during 2022, reported the U.S. A large portion of this workforce, 89.8%, are women, the report found. Demographics are driving demand for nurses. An estimated 82.13 Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

in hospice costs of the $873 billion in overall Medicare spending that occurred during 2022. Medicare hospice spending reached roughly $25.7 billion in 2023, which averaged roughly $186 in daily costs of care, the report found. This compared to about 2.7%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents 52.23% in Texas in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. Seniors 65 and older represent 13.8% of the Lone Star States overall population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hospice utilization rates hovered at 49.1% nationwide that year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The PRIM-ER interventions took place between 2018 and 2022, meaning that the results could have been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers evaluated the initial emergency department visits of nearly 99,000 seniors with serious illnesses before and after implementation of PRIM-ER. The results were published in JAMA.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The case has a long circuitous history that dates back to 2022 when Encompass Health spinned off its home health and hospice business as a standalone company, now known as Enhabit Inc. NYSE: EHAB) brand. At the time, VitalCaring CEO April Anthony was CEO of the Encompass home-based case segment.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents 52.23% in Texas in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. Seniors 65 and older represent 13.8% of the Lone Star States overall population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hospice utilization rates hovered at 49.1% nationwide that year.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2025

Florida ranked second highest nationwide in hospice utilization, reaching a rate of 55.97% in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. Floridas swelling aging population is outpacing growth of seniors across 20 other states combined, according to the Elder Affairs report.

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MARCH 14, 2025

billion in 2022, Medicare (MedPAC) reported. in 2022, the National Alliance for Care at Home reported. Details in the data trends The U.S. hospice industry as a whole is projected to bring in roughly $34 billion in revenue during 2024, Jackson indicated. This is a rise from Medicare hospice expenditures that reached $23.7

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

CAPC surveyed 150,000 health care professionals between December 2021 and January 2022 to gauge the efficacy and scope of their quality improvement efforts to advance equity among Black patients with serious illnesses.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The hospice space has since seen a cooling period that began in 2022, with investment ebbing further in2023 and into this year. Reimbursement, regulatory trends Hospice valuations and M&A activity burgeoned in previous years, reaching record highs in 2019 and 2020.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2025

In 2022, he ran for the U.S. At the time, Oz owned $630,000 in stock in two companies that produced hydroxychloroquine, CNBC reported in 2022. They drive three quarters of the $1.7 trillion that CMS spends a year to support Americans health. Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican, losing to Democrat John Fetterman.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2025

In 2022, senile degeneration of the brain was the most frequently occurring diagnosis among Medicare decedents who elected the hospice benefit. Dementia services are among the most common disease-specific programs emerging from home health and hospice providers, driven by the rising incidence of dementia-related diagnoses.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

In 2022, more than 907,000 Medicare hospice decedents were older than 85, out of 1.7 Alivia Care also offers care coordination through its Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) services. The lions share of assisted living residents are aged 85 or older, AHCA/NCAL reported.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2025

In 2022, the company rebranded as Vynca to reflect its broadened scope of clinical services and now provides care across five Western states. The company launched as an advanced care planning technology platform and expanded into the palliative care provider space through its 2021 acquisition of California-based Resolution Care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Building blocks of service diversification Kirva Hospice launched in 2022 by the two faith-based public services organizations Jewish Family Services and Beth Shalom. Hospice News photo by TBAR Productions Hospice News photo by TBAR Productions Cheryl Hamilton Fried, Perry Farmer and Dean Forman at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Additionally, Arkansas Hospice in 2022 acquired First Choice Senior Care, which provides personal care services and assistance with medication management, meal preparation, assistance with daily activities of life and companionship. Bell previously served as the nonprofit hospice providers vice president and chief medical officer since 2016.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2025

According to 2022 data from the University of Southern California, average turnover rates throughout the health care continuum hover around 27% for registered nurses and 35.5% Chapters is one of the largest nonprofit hospice providers in the United States. Currently the company has achieved a turnover rate of 12% for nurses and 10% for CNAs.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The RAND analysis released this week covers the calendar year 2022. In 2022, 13 insurance companies offered hospice VBID benefits through a total of 109 health plans. For more than half of these plans, 2022 was their first year of participation. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) commissioned the RAND Corp.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2025

Johnson previously served as president of the Trustbridge Hospice Foundation, since 2022. Guerisoli stepped into the CEO role in 2022 and has served on Pennants board since 2023. The news comes alongside the retirement of Kathy Rabon, president of the Suncoast Hospice Foundation. from 2008 to 2020.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2024

NYSE: EHC) in 2022. from Q2 2022 to Q1 2024, while Amedisys’ revenue grew by 1.3% from Q2 2022 to Q1 2024.” “We believe Enhabit’s significant underperformance versus peers is a direct result of the Board lacking the necessary industry expertise to hold management accountable.” The company spun off from Encompass Health Corp.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

trillion in 2022, a 4.15 In 2022, strong Medicaid and private health insurance spending growth, including a turnaround in the net cost of insurance, was somewhat offset by continued declines in federal spending associated with the COVID-19 pandemic,” the report indicated. billion in 2022. in 2022, down from 7.2%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Buyers want hospice, and they seem to realize that overpaying in 2021 and 2022 burned investors. There’s still very strong interest in looking at available hospice assets, but weve now returned to sanity when it comes to pricing, Herman told Hospice News during the podcast. But more importantly, it burned out operators.

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JUNE 14, 2023

annually between 2022 and 2031, reaching $7.1 ” In 2022, CMS paid $23.9 A deceleration in spending growth compared to that in 2021, is attributable in part to the Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries using emergent hospital care at lower rates during 2022,” CMS Economist Jacqueline Fiore said in a conference call.

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MAY 30, 2024

A surge of deals in 2021 and 2022 led to record-high valuations in the space with multiples reaching in excess of 30x in some instances. The peak chasm certainly was in the second half of 2022, but we’re now approaching two years hence. In 2022, those groups were trading for a premium, all of a sudden.

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JUNE 9, 2025

Charles Home Health and Hospice in Bend joined ONA in late 2022 to negotiate for improved working conditions, compensation and other issues. In Oregon, nurses at St. UVM in a statement indicated that the organization is prepared to negotiate “in good faith”with the union.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2025

among Hispanic Medicare decedents in 2022, according to a report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, now part of the Alliance. The Alliance report also found geographical differences, with hospice predominantly utilized by urban patient populations at a rate of 82.1% in 2023, compared to 17.9%

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