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Hospice News
APRIL 28, 2022
Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) subsidiary Contessa Health is seeing strong patient engagement for its expanded home-based palliative care program, which the company launched in January in partnership with Mt. Sinai Health System in New York. With this in place, the company now offers a full continuum of home-based care.
Hospice News
JANUARY 3, 2023
Rising expenses caused widespread margin compression among hospices during 2022, particularly those associated with wages and salaries, recruitment and retention, fuel and general inflation. “We’re This may include Medicare Advantage plans, ACOs and other entities. Medicare is the most reliable payer [for hospice].
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Hospice News
AUGUST 8, 2023
Hospices seeking to gauge the potential impact of new regulatory actions in the space can look to their counterparts in the home health field. CMS is no doubt hoping for similar results for the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Their recommendations included a temporary moratorium on new hospices enrolling in Medicare.
Hospice News
JULY 3, 2023
Some of these providers have secured licenses, as well as Medicare certification and, sometimes, accreditation. They then proceed to enroll a small number of patients for whom they never bill Medicare, multiple hospice executives told Hospice News on background. By not billing, they are better able to avoid regulators’ attention.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Deal volume for non-medical home care companies outstripped that for hospice or home health during the first half of the year. As of the end of Q2, this included 23 deals compared to 17 each for Medicare-certified home health and for hospice, according to a report by M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
While home health operators brace for the impact of the meager 2023 reimbursement rates, hospices likewise must prepare for a ripple effect. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently established a 0.7% base rate payment increase for home health care in 2023.
Hospice News
JULY 26, 2022
It’s down a bit by about 10% – 11% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2021 as some of the investor focus shifts to home health. Because of the [Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM)], things got garbled and murky in home health as investors waited to see what happened. There could be several.
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