Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Staffing, public awareness and value-based payment represent the greatest disruptive forces shaping palliative care delivery in 2024 and beyond. There are a lot of specialty areas within medicine.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A look back at Palliative Care News’ five most-read stories this year paints a picture of trends shaping the serious illness care space. Securing reimbursement — and the promise of value-based contracts — continues to be top of mind for many palliative care providers as they look ahead to 2024.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Gentiva Health Services has committed to expanding its recently established Advanced Illness Management (AIM) palliative care model in 2024, including its unique approach to reimbursement. This led to the development of the company’s Advanced Illness Management (AIM) program, which is housed within its palliative care arm Empatia.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Only 10 new Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will offer home-based palliative care as a primarily health-related benefit for 2023, but payers may be offering those services through other programs. In-home support services saw the most growth in plan participation for 2023, rising to 1,091 from 729 the prior year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lawmakers recently introduced the Value in Health Care Act, which, if enacted, could create inroads toward improved palliative care reimbursement. These changes are designed to increase participation in value-based payment programs designed to improve quality outcomes and lower costs of care. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.),

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

An Irish study found that 4 in 10 adults prefer not to think or discuss palliative care. All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC ) conducted the research on public perceptions of palliative care. The survey polled 1,000 people in the Republic of Ireland throughout July 2023.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Researchers in Japan have found that virtual reality palliative therapy can help improve the physical and emotional state of terminally ill cancer patients. About 128 cancer patients volunteered to participate in a clinical trial study between November 2022 and September 2023 that examined the impacts of virtual reality therapy.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The palliative care space is at an inflection point at which unprecedented awareness and demand are fueling growth that could be hampered by limited reimbursement and staffing shortages. Palliative Care News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most impactful forces that will shape the space in the coming year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Palliative care physicians at Providence St. Labor pressures have haunted hospice and palliative care providers nationwide for several years running, only to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Within the past few years, Oregon in particular has become a hotbed for unionization among health care workers.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For the time being, Medicare Advantage may be providers’ best bet for palliative care reimbursement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) also allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit. based research and consulting firm ATI Advisory.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some also see the health care system, including hospices and palliative care providers, starting to settle into a “new normal” after the sea changes that have occurred during the past three years. Overall, we do expect some return to normalcy as it relates to routine health care engagement within the senior population.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

Given the crucial role that caregivers play in families, their well-being is central to palliative care, and providers need to assist these caregivers by developing sustainable models of support for them. In the United States, more than 40 million adults provide palliative care for family members.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A recent study has found that offering telehealth services to patients with Parkinson disease can help increase awareness around their palliative care options and improve their quality of life. Patient data was analyzed from January 2021 to September 2023. Advance directive completion was higher under the intervention.”

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2023

Hospices are increasingly eying palliative care as a promising growth opportunity, prioritizing expansion in that field over other health care service lines. Survey respondents included nearly 330 hospice and palliative care industry professionals, including owners, executive leaders and managers, among others.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Palliative care utilization in ovarian cancer patients can lower their chances of rehospitalizations, according to recent data. Palliative care patients were less likely to be readmitted within 90 days of a hospital stay, according to Dr. Alex Francoeur, study author. Both of those findings were significant as well.”

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2023

In turn, that could dampen the growth of palliative care supplemental benefits in MA moving forward. Despite palliative care’s ability to lower health care spending and improve patient outcomes, it remains an underutilized service. based research and consulting firm ATI Advisory.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Bicultural and bilingual palliative patient navigator interventions may be a key to improving access to goal concordant care among Hispanic populations with serious illness, according to recent research.

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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.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

But by April of this year, accounting practices related to Contessa’s palliative care business threw a monkey wrench into the negotiations. I think the opportunity all-in [with Contessa] is larger, largely due to the fact that we’ve discovered palliative care and built that contract …,” Kusserow told Hospice News in January.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health recently developed a new palliative care team designed to help improve access and quality among underserved pediatric populations. We’re calling this a palliative paradigm shift and we’re just getting started with it,” Baker told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum. An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. Palliative care and hospice share some common goals with hospice.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

NASDAQ: NCAC), making the palliative care-focused psychedelics company publicly traded in the United States. Current Newcourt shareholders would transition to owning stock in the combined company after the deal closes, which is expected to occur in the second half of 2023, pending customary regulatory and shareholder approvals.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

More cancer patients have been receiving palliative care since the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid. of eligible patients received palliative care in states that expanded Medicaid, up from 17% before the ACA provisions took effect on Jan. About 18.9%

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Arizona-based Phoenix Children’s Hospital has developed a pediatric hospice and palliative care fellowship program that is positively impacting access to these services. Communication skills are among the most significant components of shaping a sustainable pediatric palliative care workforce, Shaw said. “A

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

Patients who receive palliative care in a hospital often have trouble finding a provider to continue those services after they return home. The number of hospitals that offer palliative care has grown exponentially during the past two decades. Over 1,400 hospitals in our country have a palliative care service.

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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. I think it leverages palliative care, and then takes it to the next level.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unity Hospice and Palliative Care of Greater Houston has unveiled a five-year general inpatient (GIP) service agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Health. The hospice will provide GIP care across the health system’s four hospitals. Unity Hospice and Palliative Care serves 13 counties in Texas.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

million in the state’s 2023 fiscal year budget to support pediatric palliative care access. The funding is intended to support expanded palliative care services for seriously and terminally ill children amid rising demand. million towards pediatric palliative care, a rise from $2.6

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

The number of states introducing palliative care Medicaid reimbursement channels has been climbing in recent years. At the crux is a lack of awareness of these state-funded programs, Fields said at Hospice News’ Palliative Care News Conference in Tampa, Florida. Utilization is a totally different ball of wax. .”

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

Margin pressures from the proposed cuts to Medicare home health rates could impact palliative care and hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in June released its proposed home health reimbursement rule for 2023, which included a 4.2% pay hike for hospice care in 2023. CMS proposed a 2.7%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois-headquartered Unity Hospice & Palliative Care has expanded to Houston, Texas, following its acquisition of an existing license in that market. Unity is a family-owned provider established in 1992 that since then has cared for more than 30,000 patients, the company reported.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

Prevalent care models for neurological illnesses could be improved by more extensive integration of palliative care, recent research has found. A team of international researchers reviewed prior studies of care models for treating Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, dementia and other neurological diseases.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

(Nasdaq: AMED) has repeatedly voiced its enthusiasm for its palliative care business in early 2023. On Wednesday, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Amedisys announced a new agreement with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee to deliver home-based palliative care to the insurer’s millions of members.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A primary barrier for patient and family access to palliative care is a lack of standardized definition and payment mechanism. Many providers also rely on philanthropic funding to keep their palliative care services going, or operate them as a loss leader in hopes of gaining earlier hospice referrals. It’s fairly loose.”.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Rising demand and demographic tailwinds are propelling rapid growth in both the hospice and palliative care markets. These markets are growing partly because of demographic trends and partly because of increasing acceptance of both palliative and hospice,” Tanquilut told Hospice News. “As palliative care market will reach $78.50

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