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Fallout of 2023 Home Health Payment Rule Likely to Affect Hospices

Hospice News

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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How the 2023 Home Health Rule Could Change the Game in Hospice M&A

Hospice News

The pendulum of investor interest has swung hard into the hospice market in recent years, but shifts in reimbursement could steer buyers towards home health. Uncertainty earlier this year around Medicare’s proposed 2023 home health payment rates led some stakeholders to expect a swerve towards hospice.

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Addus Acquires Apple Home Healthcare

Hospice News

The company’s acquisition focus for this year and into 2023 rests on targets primarily in the personal care and home health space, Allison indicated in a Q2 earnings call. Since 2019, Addus has purchased seven personal care companies and four home health and hospice agencies. Company-wide revenues reached $236.9

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Post-PHE Hospice Regulation: How Telehealth Rules Will Change

Hospice News

This means that as of May 11 telehealth encounters will no longer count as routine home care, including care and services provided via remote patient monitoring systems, telephone calls and audiovisual technologies, according to recent guidance from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Future Leader: Drake Jarman, SVP of Growth, Hospice, Amedisys

Hospice News

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. NASDAQ: AMED) has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Hospices that Excel During COVID More Attractive to Buyers

Hospice News

It’s down a bit by about 10% – 11% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2021 as some of the investor focus shifts to home health. Because of the [Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM)], things got garbled and murky in home health as investors waited to see what happened. There could be several.

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Hospice News ELEVATE : Fireside Chat with Netsmart

Hospice News

As VBID now, we’re approaching the end of 2022 and then emerging into 2023, we’re going to be in 15 plans, 119 plan benefit packages, and across 806 counties. HSPN: Can you talk a little bit about what kind of disruption could occur in the hospice industry, as a result of Medicare Advantage? Are you not?

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