Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Los Angeles-based Hospice Home Care recently rolled out a scholarship program for hospice aides in a move towards building career pathways and improving retention. Home hospice aides in the Los Angeles county region who have previously worked with the organization were eligible to apply for the scholarship. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec. Often called the “hospice carve-in,” the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, in addition to some coverage of palliative care and transitional care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Expanding its palliative care business is a rising priority for Amedisys Inc., The company’s palliative care strategy rests on the back of risk-based payment models, primarily Medicare Advantage, Kusserow indicated at the J.P. We’re excited to be able to do at-risk palliative in the home. We’re moving towards value.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Though nonprofit hospices now represent a smaller slice of the industry than in years past, they continue to care for more than half of patients in the United States who elect the benefit. The number of hospices operating nationwide rose to 5,3,58 in 2021, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. The home health and hospice provider is part of the home care service line of Uintah Basin Healthcare. Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

Recognition of palliative care’s value has been steadily gaining among stakeholders in the form of improved patient outcomes and cost savings through reduced hospitalizations. Traditional Medicare only covers physician consults and doesn’t support the full range of interdisciplinary care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

In 2023, the focus for many is to not only expand their core business but to spread further into the care continuum. The below comments were taken from original interviews, conducted in person and via the phone, throughout early 2023. Hospices are blazing trails toward growth, each provider with its own range of strategies.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Meanwhile, providers are also rolling with the ups-and-downs of a market ripe for further consolidation after 2023’s M&A slump as workforce headwinds persist. While some hospice companies reported hiring and capacity gains in 2023, often driven by bonus programs, the problem persists for many providers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has voted to recommend a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). set in 2023. set in 2023. for next year, up from $32,486.92

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) floated the possibility of a combination in March in light of their existing, highly collaborative working relationship. Lloyd, president and CEO, Delaware Hospice, Inc.

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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.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2023

(NASDAQ: AMED) sees a changing of the guard in its C-suite, the company will not be slowing down on palliative care. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based home health and hospice provider recently picked former Walgreens Co. Palliative is interesting because I think we’re the first home health company to take true risk.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2025 hospice rule is finalized as written, hospices may encounter some hurdles implementing some of the new requirements. If the U.S. CMS late last month issued its proposed hospice rule for 2025. The proposal called for a 2.6% With any new tool implementation, there are challenges.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

The nation’s total health care spend is expected to swell by 5.4% 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% These data from the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That roughly eight-year stretch as CEO was likewise marked by the purchase of Contessa, a company built to shift higher-acuity care into the home, including palliative care services. “We We think it’s transformative,” Kusserow said Tuesday at the Bank of America Securities Home Care Conference, referring to Contessa.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The nation’s four largest hospice industry organizations — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) — in late 2023 conducted a 133-respondent provider survey focused on regulation.

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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. billion less than it would have been had they not received hospice care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. The agency is also releasing applications for participation for eligible Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) for calendar year 2024. It makes sense.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

In negotiations with Medicare Advantage plans, for instance, hospice and palliative care providers will need to demonstrate their performance in terms of star ratings, other quality metrics and reduced hospitalizations. The health care sector’s growing appetite for numbers is also driving many hospices’ technology investments.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Hospice executives in December 2022 shared their predictions for what would happen in the space during 2023. More access to care is critical,” Alex Mauricio, CEO of Bristol Hospice, told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 conference. “I This entire Medicare Advantage carve-in, it makes sense.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As those problems proliferate, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), LeadingAge and the National Partnership for Hospice and Healthcare Innovation (NPHI) have been speaking out not only individually, but collectively. This prompted the U.S.

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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

APRIL 28, 2023

To date, much of this has centered around diversified programs like palliative care, PACE and other services. As they move into this new sphere, hospices may be able to glean some important lessons from home health agencies. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) kicked off the HHVBP demonstration on Jan.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider the proposed 2.8% In public comments on the proposal, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) called for a 3.7% The senior care advocacy group LeadingAge voiced similar concerns and called on CMS to institute a 3.8%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

AccentCare has been building such partnerships for years, but in 2023 they have become a rising priority. Dallas-headquartered AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, offering hospice, palliative care, personal care, non-medical services, home health, care management and high-acuity home care.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

The telehealth-focused waivers allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually, as well as conduct face-to-face recertification visits. The other requirement around hospice routine home care telehealth flexibilities is much more dicey. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2022

This is prompting calls for Medicare to reconsider proposed 2023 reimbursement rates. . Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reassess the 2.7% per diem rate increase included in the 2023 proposed payment rule to account for these expenses. The hospice advocacy group NHPCO is now asking the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Kentucky-based Hosparus Health is poised for expansion — through joint ventures, new investments in its palliative care program and the forthcoming launch of a PACE center. The nonprofit hospice provider’s subsidiary — Care Guide Partners — has applied to the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The hospice, palliative care and personal care provider Gentiva has agreed to acquire Heartland Hospice and other assets from the home-based care company ProMedica. The Atlanta-based provider emerged from the former hospice and personal care segments of Kindred at Home. . Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Hospice will continue to be in a state of flux this year and next, with a heavy focus on regulation and supporting and growing the workforce, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim CEO for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). With the stop and the stop points that [the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 27, 2023

The increase of 309 net professional hires during the second quarter of 2023, think of it as basically underutilized labor capacity, [and] is estimated to have negatively impacted margins in the quarter by approximately 80-basis points,” Williams said. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2.8%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. What drew you to the hospice and palliative care industry? A big thing I would change is the core structure of the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eden Health will take over Community’s inpatient services effective May 1, 2023. The deal expands Eden Health’s home health and hospice footprint in Washington, one of eight states in its service region. The home health, hospice and palliative care provider operates 36 locations and serves roughly 1,540 patients annual.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2022

The State of New York’s recently approved budget for Fiscal Year 2023 required that home care and hospice aides be paid at least $2 more than the state’s $15 standard minimum wage. While these workers are among the lowest paid in health care, this could put providers in a bind without corresponding increases to reimbursement.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

Demographic tailwinds, favorable interest rates, disruption in other health businesses like home health and a host of other factors have kept investors and strategic buyers hungry for hospice assets, according to Mark Kulik, managing director at M&A advisory firm The Braff Group. How has offering this service influenced buyer decisions?

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