Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If you were to write a book about hospice in 2023, what would you call it? We’ve heard from the [Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)] on the 20% payment cap reduction. Is Medicare Advantage going to be the path? The amount of work you have to do to collect money with Medicare has grown.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. The state of caregiving Many of the barriers are financial. The direct costs of caregiving are substantial, and they multiply as lost wages or missed work days get factored in.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

President and the first known President to utilize the Medicare Hospice Benefit. While in office, the Carter administration tested hospice care as a model, which later led to the Medicare Hospice Benefit we know today. This year’s HAN award recipients are as follows: The Courageous Conversations Award, 2023 Honoree 39 th U.S.

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NHPCO

JULY 28, 2023

For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. billion in Medicare savings in 2019, while also providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. Hospice stays of six months or more result savings for Medicare.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a new payment model demonstration geared toward dementia-related illnesses, which are becoming more prevalent among hospice patients. Patients will be stratified into one of five tiers, based on a combination of their disease stage and caregiver status. million people.

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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 29, 2023

Rush University System for Health recently partnered with CVS MinuteClinics to reach more people on Medicare. The collaboration enables people with Medicare who utilize CVS’s participating MinuteClinics in Chicago and some suburbs to access follow-up primary and specialty care at Rush. Rush and CVS aren’t the only budding partnerships.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

increase for 2023 when you put all of the data together. What behavioral changes do agencies need to make to prepare for 2023 in light of the final rule? Claims workflow, timeliness of care and payer profitability analysis for non-Medicare businesses will be very important. It also provided a payment update of 4.1%

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NHPCO

MARCH 21, 2023

For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 billion in savings for Medicare in 2019, while providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. Hospice stays of six months or more result in savings for Medicare.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2023, Gentiva began looking for ways to care for a broader swatch of the seriously ill population, including those who were not expected to recover but were also not yet eligible for hospice. Gentiva seeks to embody this vision through the AIM program, with plans to circumvent the need to work directly with Medicare or other payers.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

The faith-based nonprofit organization also has a telehospice program, which offers virtual telehealth support to hospice caregivers and patients. Terminally ill residents at the Lourdes facility who are unable to remain at home or lack caregiver support will be eligible to receive care at the inpatient hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Palliative care providers may be uniquely positioned to develop partnerships that support patients through the new Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model recently unveiled by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation. CMS will release the application for GUIDE in Fall 2023.

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NHPCO

APRIL 28, 2023

For Immediate Release April 28, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – Earlier this month, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) published details on the extension of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model that may have significant implications for hospice care going forward.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

The study spanned the telehealth experiences of terminally ill cancer patients 29 years old and under who were eligible to receive hospice care between 2021 and 2023. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually, as well as face-to-face recertification visits.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

. “Gentiva consistently achieves industry-leading quality of care and patient family satisfaction scores by investing in our people and caregiving capabilities,” David Causby, president CEO of Gentiva, said in a statement. In 2021, 80,150 Medicare beneficiaries in Ohio utilized the hospice benefit, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2023

“Gentiva consistently achieves industry-leading quality of care and patient family satisfaction scores by investing in our people and caregiving capabilities,” David Causby, president CEO of Gentiva, said of the deal in a statement. About 19,000 Medicare beneficiaries elected hospice in the state last year, according to the U.S.

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NHPCO

APRIL 20, 2023

For Immediate Release April 20, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and its affiliate organization, the Hospice Action Network (HAN) published the following statement in response to today’s announcement that the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

the Improving Access to Transfusion Care for Hospice Patients Act of 2023 is currently in Senate review. 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.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

DOJ counts hospice claims among the root causes of rising Medicare costs in recent years, according to Lisa Miller, deputy assistant attorney general overseeing the department’s Crime Fraud Section. Medicare hospice claims represent a solid chunk, according to regulators. million.

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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. Recipients will be announced in December 2023. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

They’re stealing Medicare dollars, assessing opioid medication and depriving patients of access to the care that they need,” Rep. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), requesting a briefing on the agency’s efforts to combat fraud. But I want to make sure primarily that the caregivers’ hands are not tied.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving hospices a 3.1% That will translate to a $780 million bump to hospice payments next year compared to Fiscal Year 2023, according to CMS. set in 2023. set in 2023. increase to their per diem payments for 2024, according to a final rule published Friday.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

Mertz Photography Mertz Photography Atonia Garret at the 2023 Palliative Care Conference. About 9% of nearly 330 hospice professionals indicated that they planned to launch pediatric end-of-life care services for the first time this year during 2023 in this year’s Hospice News Outlook Survey , prepared in collaboration with Homecare Homebase.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Longer general inpatient hospice stays and high-cost issues are reasons for the audit, dubbed the “Audit of Selected, High-Risk Medicare Hospice General Inpatient Services,” according to OIG. Through the audit, OIG will determine whether hospice providers that billed for general inpatient care complied with Medicare requirements.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

The number of people who suffer from heart failure is expected to rise by 46% between 2012 and 2023, the American Heart Association (AHA) reported. As of 2020, those individuals represented only about 10% of Medicare decedents who elected hospice, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

visits in the last seven days of life between May and November 2023. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) quality measures such as the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) and the Hospice Item Set (HIS). Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St. Croix received an average of roughly 10.3

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. The OIG announced a new focused audit that will be conducted in FY 2023. The OIG announced a new focused audit that will be conducted in FY 2023. billion Medicare dollars.

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NHPCO

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For Immediate Release November 10, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center (CMMI) release of the final Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) report and At-A-Glance report.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Currently Medicare reimbursement for palliative care includes physician and licensed independent practitioner services through fee-for-service payment programs that do not sufficiently cover the full range of interdisciplinary care. 1, 2023, ACO REACH will replace the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) model.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2023

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Scott Beard, Chief Strategy Officer at Maxwell Healthcare Associates, to learn about the most pressing technology trends and products providers should be watching in 2023. What kinds of technology or products should agencies invest in for 2023?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Established in 2003, Instant Care of Arizona provides in-home senior care and caregiving support to patients and their families in Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, among 15 other cities throughout the Maricopa County area. Veterans programs and managed care organizations also have become more involved in the space. As of 2019, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

But in late 2022 and early 2023, providers are seeing signs of recovery. As Graham pointed out, many hospices use thrift store revenue to support services that aren’t fully covered by the Medicare Hospice Benefit or other payer sources. They’re really important to maintaining that community voice, along with resale support and revenue.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) removes the waiver of volunteer requirements instituted during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). 11, 2023, but will likely be extended through at least April. Providers’ efforts to recruit volunteers could take on renewed urgency when the U.S.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For Immediate Release October 6, 2023 Photo Link (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) hosted its annual leadership conference (ALC2023) in Little Rock, Arkansas, September 30 – October 4, 2023. Monday, October 2 was the first day of the full conference.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.

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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 The company operates 180 hospitals and roughly 2,300 sites of care and earned close to $16 billion in the first quarter of 2023. More than 1.72

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NHPCO

JULY 25, 2023

These program integrity efforts include: Revocation of Medicare enrollment: CMS has identified fraud schemes and increased its operational ability to revoke Medicare enrollment more quickly. Organizational Deactivation: CMS proposes to revoke Medicare certification if a provider has not billed any claims within six months.

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NHPCO

APRIL 17, 2023

For Immediate Release April 17, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule that would update key components of hospice reimbursement and regulations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

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