Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

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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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

NYSE: CHE), has opened its first hospice house in Orange County, California, currently the only such facility in that region. By 2025, their numbers will nearly double, according to the U.S. More patients elect hospice in California than in any other state. VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

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

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. While MedPAC is not a policy-setting body, its recommendations do bear weight among policymakers and lawmakers.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. Doing home care? Hospice visits? ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. In the ICU at the bedside? Leave me alone.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 14, 2020

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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