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3 Palliative Care Providers to Watch

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His desire was to build a clinical program that would help the exact type of patient his father is and to provide the best home-based serious illness care in our community.” Initially, UnitedHealth Group made the decision to invest in Prospero’s home-based program instead of purchasing a company. “At

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Providers Navigate Fragmented Payment System To Bring Palliative Care to Patients

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reimbursed palliative care through a fee-for-service model that only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services, rather than the full range of interdisciplinary care. The United States lacks a robust reimbursement system for palliative care. Historically, the U.S.

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U.S. Health Care Expenditures to Reach $7.1 Trillion by 2031; Hospice Spending to Double by 2032

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annually between 2022 and 2031, reaching $7.1 Meanwhile, Medicare hospice spending is expected to more than double by 2032. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary also project that health care expenditures will represent 19.6% ” In 2022, CMS paid $23.9 These data from the U.S.

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Amedisys Eyes Palliative Care Expansion Via Contessa Joint Ventures

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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 partnership marks Contessa’s first risk-based palliative care contract, which is reimbursed through Medicare Advantage.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Hollie Trogdon, Senior Vice President, PruittHealth Home

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Hollie Trogdon, senior vice president of PruittHealth Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. What drew you to this industry?

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Hosparus Acquires Baptist Health Deaconess Hospice

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In 2021, more than 22,000 Medicare decedents elected hospice care in Kentucky. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Because most of the individuals accessing PACE are going to be Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries,” Cook told Hospice News in January. “A It currently serves six Kentucky counties.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Lauren O’Dwyer, CFO, Anvoi Hospice and Anvoi Management

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Lauren O’Dwyer, CFO at Anvoi Hospice and Anvoi Management, LLC, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. What drew you to the hospice industry?

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