Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 proposed hospice rule contained requests for information (RFIs) that could signal changes in the agency’s thinking on key issues. Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has voted to recommend a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The 2021 aggregated Medicare hospice margin was 13.3%, according to MedPAC.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec. Often called the “hospice carve-in,” the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, in addition to some coverage of palliative care and transitional care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. The agency is also releasing applications for participation for eligible Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) for calendar year 2024. It makes sense.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has honed in on hospice program integrity through a number of new regulations, including some in the agency’s 2024 hospice final rule. The regulations focused on Medicare enrollment in an effort to stifle unethical or illegal activity in the space.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow hospice patients to receive concurrent care through the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, and will permit health plans to further restrict utilization of out-of-network providers. But today’s update from CMS contained another critical change from prior years.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has unveiled a new primary care-oriented Accountable Care Organization (ACO) payment model that holds opportunities for hospices. 1, 2025, with the application period starting May 20 and ending June 17. This demonstration reflects a push by the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

More importantly, CDPH is collaborating with stakeholders, such as CHAPCA, to create more stringent hospice regulations that will come into effect from January 1, 2025. In one instance, 15 new hospices received Medicare certification, all operating from the same two-story building in Los Angeles, ProPublica reported.

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Comforcare Home Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here are some Medicare changes you might want to know about. Medicare will be able to negotiate drug prices (starting in 2023). Out-of-pocket insulin costs will be capped at $35/month for Medicare. Out-of-pocket drug costs on Part D will be capped at $2000/year starting in. participants (starting in 2023).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many established services for the purpose of selling the license at a profit or defrauding Medicare. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rolled out a swath of new measures to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the space. They could also face financial penalties or expulsion from the Medicare program.

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NHPCO

MARCH 5, 2024

For Immediate Release March 4, 2024 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) responded to today’s announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that as of December 31, 2024, the hospice benefit component of the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model will conclude.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The bill builds upon the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, designed to speed transitions to patient-centered, value-based care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) develop more transparent financial benchmarks that account for regional variations in health care spending, Pittman added.

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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. 1, 2025, with the application period starting May 20 and ending June 17.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

By 2025, their numbers will nearly double, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Nearly 500,000 seniors live in Orange County, close to 16% of the total population. Census Bureau. More patients elect hospice in California than in any other state.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The company’s Kindred at Home deals reflect its deepening dive into risk-based reimbursement programs like Medicare Advantage (MA). We remain on track to cover approximately 40% of our MA members with the fully value-based model by 2025. Humana retains the remaining 40%.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2023

by 2025, up from 13.5% among Medicare decedents in 2018, which is in line with that year’s national average, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Favorable demographics are among the factors that make Missouri an attractive market for hospices. in 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

The Oregon-based hospice, palliative care and home health provider recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of its founding, which preceded the establishment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)], and we have that distinction in the hospice arena. How do you tackle that problem?

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Longer general inpatient hospice stays and high-cost issues are reasons for the audit, dubbed the “Audit of Selected, High-Risk Medicare Hospice General Inpatient Services,” according to OIG. Through the audit, OIG will determine whether hospice providers that billed for general inpatient care complied with Medicare requirements.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Commonly known as the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model officially launched on January 1, 2021, with 53 Medicare Advantage Plans offering the benefit in 206 counties within 13 states and Puerto Rico for 4 years ending in 2025. The difference is Medicare Advantage vs Humana VBID.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We’re going to lay out a five-year strategic plan as a bridge between 2025 and 2030 that will define Blue Ridge Hospice’s role in the future. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)] and Blue Ridge. We can leverage that and leverage all the gifts and attributes of that and shoehorn it into really planning for the future.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

by 2025, up from 13.5% among Medicare decedents in 2018, which is in line with that year’s national average, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Favorable demographics are driving interest among providers in the Missouri and Ohio markets. in 2000 and 13.6% in 2008, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As much as $265 billion in health care dollars could shift from facilities to the home setting by 2025, according to a McKinsey & Company survey. Respondents were physicians who care predominantly for Medicare fee-for-service or Medicare Advantage patients.

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NHPCO

JANUARY 12, 2024

On the other hand, NHPCO is disappointed by MedPAC’s recommendation to Congress that hospice reimbursement rates for patient care should not be updated in 2025, although by law hospice payment rates are pegged to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) inpatient hospital market basket rate.

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2022

by 2025, up from 13.5% among Medicare decedents in 2018, which is in line with that year’s national average, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. The proportion of seniors older than 65 in Missouri’s population is expected to reach 19.1% in 2000 and 13.6% in 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in June released its proposed home health reimbursement rule for 2023, which included a 7.69% reduction in the base payment rate. I would imagine we’ll have more clarity around 2023-2025 reimbursement by late this year or early next year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

The skyrocketing increase in Medicare Advantage enrollees hit our home health business, causing costly, deeper disruptions. We do anticipate significant M&A activity in the near future and into 2025. All home-based care business lines seemed to be under attack. In our development, we chose the moniker “burn the ships.”

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. While the U.S. What outcomes were measured and how?

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 2025 – first payment year with adjustments. percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. While the U.S. HHVBP key dates.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 16, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent improvement in HHAs’ total performance scores (TPS) and an average annual savings of $141 million to Medicare without evidence of adverse risks.” The overall picture is jarring: the U.S. trillion by 2028.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 17, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent improvement in HHAs' total performance scores (TPS) and an average annual savings of $141 million to Medicare without evidence of adverse risks.”. 2025 – first payment year with adjustments.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 14, 2020

For two years we’ve watched the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unlock more opportunities for home care providers via Medicare Advantage supplemental benefit plans. Medicare Advantage will soon include non-medical home care services. Embracing Risk, 2020-2025 (Jan 21, 8:45 – 9:45 a.m.)

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So the amount of dollars per Medicare beneficiary in the last six months of life varies more than twofold from one region of the country to the other region of the country. We can talk in 2025. So as a researcher, that’s the way we think too. So that suggests there’s some variation happening. Amber: You know what?

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 7, 2022

86% of millennials , who will make up over 75% of the workforce by 2025 , would take a pay cut to work for a company that aligns with their values. By federal law, the caregiver benefits you are required to offer to full-time employees are: Social Security, Medicare, and Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA).

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