Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Longer general inpatient hospice stays and high-cost issues are reasons for the audit, dubbed the “Audit of Selected, High-Risk Medicare Hospice General Inpatient Services,” according to OIG. Through the audit, OIG will determine whether hospice providers that billed for general inpatient care complied with Medicare requirements.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

A pharmacist by trade, Ashworth most recently served as president and CEO of Tivity Health (NASDAQ: TVTY), a wellness solutions company that contracts with Medicare Advantage plans, where he was credited with achieving a 300% shareholder return. Previously, he was president of Walgreens Co.,

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Hospice News

APRIL 14, 2023

“But that model is at risk of losing focus on addressing medical, mental, spiritual and psychosocial needs of patients and caregivers. Palliative care needs to be embraced as its own discipline — rather than a service line — if we’re going to succeed in delivering quality, or it risks falling to the wayside.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kusserow – who holds a reputation as a successful turnaround executive – held the Amedisys CEO role from 2014 until early 2022. During that time, he helped spearhead the company’s aggressive hospice expansion, epitomized by the industry-shaping acquisitions of Compassionate Care Hospice, AseraCare and other businesses.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2022

The State of New York’s recently approved budget for Fiscal Year 2023 required that home care and hospice aides be paid at least $2 more than the state’s $15 standard minimum wage. While these workers are among the lowest paid in health care, this could put providers in a bind without corresponding increases to reimbursement.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

RoboToaster, SmugMug RoboToaster, SmugMug Joel Wherley at the 2022 ELEVATE Conference. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a 2.7% pay increase for hospice care for Fiscal Year 2023. The move sparked community outrage amid rising demand for end-of-life care in the area.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2022

It’s been very successful in getting patients both access to home health and allowing them to leave the hospital while the hospital tries to find them a [primary care provider]. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to waive certain regulatory requirements during a declared public health emergency (PHE).

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NHPCO

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

November 30, 2022. Alexandria, Va ) – An article on the hospice industry published by ProPublica on November 28 ( Endgame: How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle ), 2022, gives readers an inaccurate view of the Medicare hospice benefit, a uniquely person-centered program that brought comfort to 1.7

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

stated at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in New Orleans. Brody is also a registered nurse in end-of-life care. “As The post Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

billion in 2022, a report from ResearchandMarkets estimated. Also last year, Elara Caring and Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH) formed an integrated care model designed at better addressing behavioral health needs among seniors.Texas-based Elara Caring offers hospice, palliative and personal care in addition to behavioral and home health.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Michah’s Story Begins: It is January 2022, and hospice agencies are still struggling to provide care in the midst of a pandemic. billion Medicare dollars.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth Melanie Stover, Owner of Home Care Sales, shares everything you need to know about referral sources to set your agency up for success. Melissa Mendez ( 00:12 ): Welcome to vision the home care leaders podcast. Melanie Stover owner of home care sales.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

My clinical experiences have been foundational to my growth, but my aging health policy experience with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and my time with The California Endowment were equally important. Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

Invest in Solutions that Simplify the Experience for Care Staff and Clients. Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Paying your care staff more won’t keep them around longer. Here’s how.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

6: The State of Training in 2022 During a 10-minute online survey, agencies were asked to share more about their challenges, successes, and future goals around their employee training programs. Amanda Sternklar ( 00:00:00 ): Hey, Amanda Sternklar here, co-host of Vision, the Care Leaders Podcast. Thanks Todd. So I was let go.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 7, 2022

. – Step 4: Put caregivers first in your hiring process. Step 4: Put caregivers first in your hiring process. Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Step 4: Put caregivers first in your hiring process.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And today we’re gonna discuss this, a big topic, the top five challenges the care industry is facing, and how agencies can respond. Now to tackle this big subject, we are so lucky to be joined by Kristen Wheeler, and many of you probably know her in the healthcare industry since 1990 and in home care since 2006.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

a> Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. H ospice and Palliative Care Month has arrived. Will the need to report the same data on every patient mean that individualized care must go by the wayside?

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And today we’re gonna discuss this, a big topic, the top five challenges the care industry is facing, and how agencies can respond. Now to tackle this big subject, we are so lucky to be joined by Kristen Wheeler, and many of you probably know her in the healthcare industry since 1990 and in home care since 2006.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Understanding payer priorities in defining the scope of quality is vital for hospices to thrive not only in traditional Medicare, but also in today’s value-based reimbursement climate. The nitty gritty details of data tracking and management matter when it comes to ensuring both a healthy bottom line and quality patient care.

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Before we dive into talking about the program, I know our listeners span the entire care continuum, you know, home care, home Health, hospice. And I C M S is actually working on that right now, but that can measure a patient’s experience, or rather, the caregiver fills it out after the patient’s death.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This is season three of vision, and before we jumped in, we just wanted to introduce ourselves talk a little bit about our backgrounds and specifically talk a lot about Linda’s background, how she came to be the chief clinical officer here at home care pulse and her history with the industry. You know, CMS was looking to save 1.6

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AlayaCare

MARCH 3, 2018

The pace of change in home care is accelerating at a high rate, and demands for caregiver time and skill are unrelenting. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the home infusion therapy market — a rapidly growing mainstay of home and clinic care expected to reach $31.9 billion USD by 2022.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

UnitedHealth Group is the largest operator of Medicare Advantage plans in the country. The deal trumped a previous offer to purchase Amedisys by the home infusion company Option Care Health (NASDAQ: OPCH) for $3.6 Texas-based Choice Health at Home LLC is another provider fueling smaller deals in the latter part of 2023.

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