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CMS 2025 Proposed Rule Signals Changes to Quality Measurement, Omits Program Integrity Actions

Hospice News

The 2025 proposed hospice rule is raising some questions along with payment rates. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 2.6% increase in hospice per diems for 2025. We know that hospice care has demonstrated $3.5 Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5

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VITAS Opens New Hospice House in California

Hospice News

By 2025, their numbers will nearly double, according to the U.S. More patients elect hospice in California than in any other state. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The company operates 50 hospice programs across 14 states and in the District of Columbia, with 27 inpatient hospice units nationwide.

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How ACO Flex Could Make Hospice ‘Top of Mind’ with Primary Care Providers

Hospice News

Collaborations with participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Primary Care Flex demo could allow hospices to leverage their skill sets to access more patients. Hospices and palliative care providers can come to ACOs by two main avenues.

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NHPCO Comments on MedPAC’s Hospice Deliberations

NHPCO

During yesterday’s public meetings, the MedPAC Commissioners unanimously voted in favor of the Chair’s hospice recommendation, which will be included in the Commission’s report to Congress in March 2024. We are gratified that Congress never acted on the cap cut concept.

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Key Themes to Emerge at Home Care 100 Next Week

AlayaCare

AlayaCare on site at top industry conference January 19-22 in Miami Next week, the nation’s top conference for leaders in home and hospice care heads to Miami as Home Care 100 lands January 19-22. Here we lay out an assortment of presentations we plan on attending within themes that are driving home care into the near future.

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