Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A look back at Palliative Care News’ five most-read stories this year paints a picture of trends shaping the serious illness care space. Securing reimbursement — and the promise of value-based contracts — continues to be top of mind for many palliative care providers as they look ahead to 2024.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Implementation of the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been challenging for both payers and providers, though a recent analysis indicates that it may get easier over time. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) commissioned the RAND Corp. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) commissioned the RAND Corp.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

The key secondary goal is to make the support and care we provide easier for caregivers of patients with serious illnesses,” Smith added. “We As the demand for palliative care continues to grow, so too has the way businesses have bolstered their programs to better serve patients. Enter UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) currently allows Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

An estimated 90% of children worldwide in need of palliative care services never receive them, according to a 2022 study from the Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI). But defining the range of communities that specifically lack access to hospice and palliative care can be a moving target. Hospice News photo.)

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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. The leadership change, at least in part, was due to the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Amedisys underachieving Wall Street expectations throughout much of 2022. “We So that’s the reason I’m back.”.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2022, Helios Care served more than 580 hospice patients across four New York counties in addition to 90 palliative care patients and more than 550 bereavement care clients. But we both know that as Medicare Advantage begins to expand, and [the U.S. We have one county the size of Rhode Island. That’s the big news.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

Towards the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 is when we really started to see what we would deem a return to normal. But in late 2022 and early 2023, providers are seeing signs of recovery. Towards the end of 2022, the organization saw thrift shop sales rise 25% compared to the same period in 2021, Graham indicated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Medicare Advantage organization SCAN Group has invested an undisclosed dollar amount in tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed. The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

But, due to the use of an oral solution, the caregiving daughter has to administer the medication every hour on the hour, which disrupts her sleep and adversely affects her own health. “If Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave hospices a 3.1% billion for patients in their last year of life, a 3.1%

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

The scholarship is a dependable way to assist hospice home care aids in furthering their careers, voicing their stories on the importance [of] what caregiving means to them and emphasize the changes that have occurred in their patients’ lives,” Winthorpe said in a statement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If enacted, the legislature would require the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to design a payment demonstration model that would include coverage of blood transfusion services within the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), A meager 2.7%

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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

JUNE 22, 2023

We don’t have all the personal things that are really between the caregiver and the patient,” Joe Lyons, research coordinator for SEIU’s health care division, told Hospice News. “It’s million Medicare beneficiaries elected the benefit in 2021, up from 1.43 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Among the company’s goals is to reduce both the burden on patients and caregivers as well as the financial strain on the health care system. . The Alzheimer’s Association projects the total cost of care for dementia patients to reach $321 billion in 2022, including $206 billion in Medicare and Medicaid.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“We are going to continue to build upon the foundation that has made Amedisys the best home health company in the industry – all driven by our extraordinary group of caregivers and our relentless focus on providing the best care for our patients.” billion from $900 million.

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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

JULY 25, 2023

Case in point, the average annual per-patient total cost of care for hospice beneficiaries 65 and older with some kind of dementia was nearly 17x higher in 2022 than for those without these conditions, according to research from the Alzheimer’s Association. A projected 12.7 million seniors with these conditions, according to the report.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

When you’re thinking about new strategies, think about how you’re involving employees as stakeholders,” Andrews told Hospice News at the 2022 VALUE Conference. There’s a huge gap around seriously ill people, especially around social determinants of health and practical supports, including caregivers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

billion in 2022, a report from ResearchandMarkets estimated. Chicago-based Oak Street Health consists of a network of value-based primary care facilities that serve upwards of 145,000 Medicare beneficiaries across 21 states. These conditions also put a burden on family caregivers, just as many medical ailments do.

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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. of White, 36.3%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide. Hospice deal making has leveled off so far in 2022, but some believe it to ramp up again because of further home health headwinds expected in 2023. Its hospice utilization rate reached 60.5% This towered above the national average of 50.3%

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the wage index to account for regional labor costs when it calculates hospice per diems. Effective the first of the year, 21 states increased their minimum wage in 2022, according to the Economic Policy Institute. However, these data are not collected in real time. in Virginia.

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NHPCO

JUNE 16, 2023

These congressional advocacy actions came a week after NHPCO filed detailed comments on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Hospice Wage Index and Quality Reporting Proposed Rule, demonstrating the importance of both legislative and regulatory advocacy for protecting and improving hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to waive certain regulatory requirements during a declared public health emergency (PHE). A May 2022 literature review found that the majority of research papers on telehealth published in 2020 and 2021 demonstrated a high level of patient satisfaction across every medical specialty.

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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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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2022

December 13, 2022 . Finding: Compared to White (52%) respondents, Black (39%) and Hispanic (41%) respondents are less likely to be aware that hospice is a benefit covered by Medicare. . Clearly explain how the Medicare hospice benefit works. For Immediate Release.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And then if you think underneath that, there’s Medicare certified home health, palliative, and hospice, that really kind of sits in the home.

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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. The 2022 theme is Meeting You Where You Ar e. H ospice and Palliative Care Month has arrived. Let’s explore that concern a bit. . Hospice experiences: Meeting You Where You Are.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Among the considerations behind that choice was his experience in working with payers outside of traditional Medicare. Historically, home-based care and hospice providers have operated primarily within Medicare fee-for-service models. All of these factors herald big changes for Amedisys and the hospice community at large.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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. But I always feel like hospice has been the caboose on the Medicare train. Jennifer has quite the impressive resume.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

UnitedHealth Group is the largest operator of Medicare Advantage plans in the country. AREX has been an Enhabit investor since it spun off from Encompass Health Corporation’s (NYSE: EHC) home health and hospice segments in July 2022. This followed Optum’s $5.4 billion purchase of LHC Group in February.

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