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

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The 2025 proposed hospice rule is raising some questions along with payment rates. increase in hospice per diems for 2025. The agency also proposed two new quality measures and 2025 implementation of the Hospice Outcome and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) assessment tool to replace the Hospice Item Set.

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VITAS Opens New Hospice House in California

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By 2025, their numbers will nearly double, according to the U.S. More patients elect hospice in California than in any other state. The company operates 50 hospice programs across 14 states and in the District of Columbia, with 27 inpatient hospice units nationwide. Census Bureau. year-over-year. “The

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

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Though the model is focused on primary care, it could help more patients receive hospice and palliative care when appropriate, according to CMS. 1, 2025, with the application period starting May 20 and ending June 17. CMS plans to select close to 130 ACOs for the program.

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NHPCO Comments on MedPAC’s Hospice Deliberations

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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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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

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Doing home care? Hospice visits? ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. As I argue on the podcast, ELNEC has likely done more to lift the primary palliative care skills of clinicians than any other initiative. In the ICU at the bedside? Leave me alone. So it happens.

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Key Themes to Emerge at Home Care 100 Next Week

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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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