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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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UnitedHealth Group Set for Further Acquisitions

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UnitedHealth Group has taken steps to stabilize Change Healthcare and resume normal operations, with a full financial recovery expected in early 2025. Among the company’s many large investments are acquisitions of large home health and hospice companies. This followed its $5.4

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Hospices Increasingly Invest in Environmental Sustainability

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Among these companies is Agrace Hospice & Supportive Care, which unveiled an initiative last October to become carbon neutral by 2025, according to President and CEO Lynne Sexten. Strategies evolve as an organization’s carbon neural effort matures,” Sexten told Hospice News in an email. “In

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