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Key Trends That Will Shape the Hospice Industry in 2023

Hospice News

Most hospices are sliding into 2023 between a rock and a hard place, beset by headwinds, labor shortages and questions with no easy answers. Government oversight of hospice providers will tighten during 2023. These concerns will be a hot topic in the new year, but other regulatory actions are also underway for 2023.

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3 Nonprofit Hospice Providers to Watch in 2023

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Since 2020, the organization has more than doubled its hospice footprint, including two new affiliations in 2022 — Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care and Hope Healthcare — and one so far in 2023, Capital Caring Health. The Capital Caring affiliation extended the system’s footprint to Maryland and the Washington, D.C.,

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Why SCAN Health Plan Will Enter Hospice VBID in 2023

Hospice News

SCAN Health Plan is among the Medicare Advantage (MA) payers entering the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) payment demonstration in 2023. Geographically, the program will be available in 806 counties in 24 states in 2023, up from 461 this year. Hospice VBID enters its third year in 2023.

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SCAN Group, CareOregon Put the Brakes on Planned Merger

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2023 memorandum. Among their queries, MAC sought information on how the merger could affect performance on quality metrics as well as access to care for Oregon’s Medicaid beneficiaries. “The ” The Oregon Medicaid Advisory Committee (MAC) raised questions about the proposed business combination in a Dec.

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Optum a Rising Star at UnitedHealth Group, Has More Room to Grow

Hospice News

million patients in value-based care arrangements across all of its clinical business lines. This reflects patient census growth of about 900,000 people during 2023. revenues growth during 2023, reaching $371.6 Optum Health currently serves more than 4.1 The company in Q4 of last year saw a 33.9%

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Payers to Hospices: Don’t Wait to Start Working with MA Plans

Hospice News

Originally slated to end in 2024, CMS recently extended the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) to 2023. When it comes to hospice VBID, numbers from the program’s first year offer few clues for the 2023-2024 landscape. million beneficiaries. Participation was small in year one.

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Pediatric Mental Health Tops ECRI’s 2023 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns

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