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JANUARY 9, 2024

International Cloud Computing Awards Program Releases Full List of Winners TORONTO, ON, January 9, 2024 — AlayaCare has been declared a winner in the 2023-2024 Cloud Awards program in the category Best Software as a Service (outside USA). ” The Cloud Awards program will return in autumn 2024.

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billion net savings in 2023 — the largest amount in the program’s inception more than a decade ago, according to the agency. billion in shared savings payments during the program’s 2022 to 2023 performance year, the highest dollar amount thus far, CMS reported. ACOs participating in MSSP earned an estimated $3.1

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

increase over Q3 2023. compared to the Q4 2023.Following The companys consolidated revenue for the third quarter reached $180.7 million, up 28.9% from the previous years quarter. The home health and hospice segment accounted for $135.7 million, representing a 33.7% Hospice average daily census grew to 3,444, a 27.7% million or 31.7%

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MARCH 4, 2025

Dombis 37-year tenure at NAHC ended prior to its merger with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) in 2023, which led to development of the combined organization the National Alliance for Care at Home. Helios Care now serves three counties in New York.

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2023, they and Reps. In their 2023 letter, the Congress members focused on four main concerns: The program would rely heavily on survey results, yet CMS has an extensive backlog for those inspections. Four members of Congress led by Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) have called for changes to the SFP.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

MONTREAL, QC, November 8, 2023 — AlayaCare was honoured as an Enterprise—Industry leaders award winner as part of the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program. The 2023 program sponsors include Deloitte, RBCx, Osler, EDC, CCI, TMX, Clarity, and Lafond. For further information, visit www.fast50.ca.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

The post Top 5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories from 2023 appeared first on Hospice News. Some providers are placing a greater emphasis on how respite and therapeutic services can be the most impactful for parents and caregivers, as well as siblings.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Fraudulent marketing activity in part sparked CMS to launch a bilingual outreach toolkit for hospices, which the agency disseminated to providers and stakeholders in late July 2023.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The total amount of PE transactions in health care are projected to be 15% lower in 2024 compared to 2023 volumes. A total of 30 hospice transactions were completed in 2023, compared to 19 deals as of the end of this year’s third quarter, the report found. Private equity transactions represented half of these deals.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

return on investment by embedding palliative care clinicians in the ED, a 2023 study published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine found. Health systems can realize a 6.7%

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Following the company’s 2023 affiliation with Capital Caring Health, its network expanded to Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, encompassing 14 counties and four metropolitan areas.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Enhabit opened five new hospice operations during 2024, building on seven that were established during 2022 and 2023. The seven hospice locations launched in 2022 and 2023 generated $6.2 in Q4 compared to the same period in 2023, representing 12 months of sequential growth. De novos and other investments have driven Enhabit Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 14, 2025

The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum, in June 2023 inked its agreement to acquire Amedisys in an all-cash transaction of $101 per share, or about $3.3 Today, competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys benefits millions of Americans who need home health or hospice services.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The JAMA study examined outcomes of 1,250 adults with advanced lung cancer receiving palliative care across 22 health care organizations in the United States from June 14, 2018 to May 4, 2023.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Optum, in June 2023 inked its agreement to acquire Amedisys in an all-cash transaction of $101 per share, or about $3.3 Last summer, the DOJ began investigating potential antitrust concerns related to the deal.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Hospice utilization rates in the North Star state reached 56% in 2023, according to research from the National Alliance for Care at Home and KNG Health Consulting LLC. This was above national hospice utilization rates that reached 52% that year, the research found, which was recently published by the Research Institute for Home Care.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

A total of 30 hospice transactions were completed in 2023, compared to 19 deals as of the end of 2024s third quarter, the report found. An estimated six hospice deals took place in Q3 of last year, with six home health and 11 home care also completed, Mertz Taggart reported. Private equity transactions represented half of these deals.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum in June 2023 agreed to acquire Amedisys in a $3.3 Optum in February 2023 also acquired the home health and hospice provider LHC Group for $5.4 billion deal. DOJ in December 2024 filed the lawsuit to kill the deal.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The CMS Innovation Center announced the GUIDE demonstration in July 2023, which is designed to improve quality of life for dementia patients and their caregivers by addressing care coordination, behavioral health and functional needs. Participation in the GUIDE model has grown since its inception.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

million during the same period in 2023. The company brought in roughly $587.7 million in net service revenue during the third quarter, seeing a $31.5 million year-over-year increase. Amedisys’ year-to-date adjusted EBITDA reached $191.1 million in Q3, a small increase from $190.4

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MAY 20, 2025

Hospice of the Chesapeake in 2023 cared for more than 3,900 hospice patients and roughly 2,200 supportive/palliative care patients across four Maryland counties. Another key element is building a connection with frontline staff and becoming engaged with them, according to Laura Tortorella, CEO of AccentCare, which she has led since 2023.

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MARCH 19, 2025

After 20%25% growth each month in 2023, Fluhart reports that since last year, the patient population has increased by 98%, and revenue has doubled. PalliCare nursing staff have next-to-no turnover. Since its inception, PalliCare has continued to experience growth.

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White Medicare decedents represented 86% of individuals who utilized hospice in 2023, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. in 2023, compared to 17.9% Black, Hispanic, Asian, North American Native and other racial and ethnic groups made up the remaining 14% of hospice decedents that year. among rural-based patients.

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JUNE 4, 2025

million in fraudulent Medicare hospice claims between June 2023 and February 2025. She was also a nurse for the Los Angeles Unified School District while leading the two multimillion-dollar hospice companies. Zayas was arrested by the FBI late in May for allegedly bilking more than $2.5

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MARCH 14, 2025

million Medicare beneficiaries received services in 2023 from close to 6,500 providers, up from 5,900 the prior year. Less is known about access to capital for nonprofit freestanding providers, for which capital may be more limited. Hospital-based and home health-based hospices have access to capital through their parent providers.

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MARCH 26, 2025

The National Center for Pediatric Palliative Care Homes (NCPPCH) in 2023 launched the Children’s Respite Homes of America campaign, which strives to expand access to pediatric respite and palliative care services across the country. A national public awareness program is seeking to change this trend.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Several hospices have reported undergoing multiple audits simultaneously within a six-month period in 2023, according to research from LeadingAge, the Alliance and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI).

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JUNE 9, 2025

In late December 2023, home health and hospice nurses at Oregon’s PeaceHealth Sacred Heart health system threatened to strike unless they receive wages that are comparable to the hospital’s inpatient teams. This followed the unionization of more than 70 doctors at another Oregon health system, Cedar Mill Hospital.

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JUNE 4, 2025

The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum, in June 2023 inked its agreement to acquire Amedisys in an all-cash transaction of $101 per share, or about $3.3 Last summer, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) began investigating potential antitrust concerns related to the deal.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Launched in 2023, the CAPABLE program aims to improve seniors ability to safely age in place. Georgia-based Hospice Savannah Inc. recently received nearly $2 million in grant funding to fuel expansion of its Community Aging in Place Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program.

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For instance, Estonias centralised EHR system allows seamless data sharing across healthcare providers, ensuring continuity of care and empowering patients to take control of their health information (Rissanen, 2023). This aligns with the NHSs goal of improving patient outcomes, particularly in the management of chronic diseases. Rissanen, J.,

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

April Anthony served as CEO of Encompass home-based segment at the time, stepping into the same role at Texas-based VitalCaring with its launch in 2023. The events surrounding the case began in 2022 when Enhabit became a standalone home health and hospice business after its spinoff from Encompass.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

The locally- and veteran-owned hospice provider saw its first patient in 2023, and has met the challenges of rural hospice care delivery with both resilience and adaptability, according to Michael Brown, co-founder of Headwaters. The move comes as the hospice provider expands its reach across its home state.

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APRIL 7, 2025

As of 2023, nearly 94% of people in the United States have internet access, according to data from Statista. Social media has emerged as a crucial engine for hospice marketing, allowing them to reach consumers directly rather than through a referral source. Unsurprisingly, the use of social media is skyrocketing worldwide.

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Optum inked a deal to acquire Amedisys in 2023 in an all-cash transaction of $101 per share, or about $3.3 Amedisys offers home health, hospice and palliative care, among other services to more than 465,000 patients annually across 38 states and Washington D.C. The DOJ began investigating the deal last summer.

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increase over Q3 2023. The home health and hospice segment accounted for $135.7 million, representing a 33.7% Hospice average daily census grew to 3,444, a 27.7% jump year-over-year. The companys total revenue for the full year 2024 reached $695 million, up 27.6% During the fourth quarter alone, Pennant earned $188.9 million or 31.7%

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

During 2023, St. Croix Hospices home state of Minnesota The hospice provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G. In March of last year, the hospice provider launched a de novo in the Clarinda, Iowa, community. Croix Hospice opened new locations in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin. The post St.

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