Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Value in Health Care Act would extend the 5% incentive into 2024 and 2025 — a move that could foster greater opportunities for palliative care providers working in alternative payment systems, according to David Pittman, director of communications and regulatory affairs at the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS).

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

The two-and-a-half-year clinical trial is expected to launch in autumn 2025. Wide variation exists in the ways palliative care is delivered, but Penn Medicine is launching an extensive research project to determine best practices in the hospital setting. Halpern, the John M. million grant.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Connecticut legislators recently introduced a bill that aims to create a statewide pediatric hospice and palliative program. If enacted, the bill would require the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) to create a plan for the development of the program and establish general statutes around its implementation.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

1, 2025, with the application period starting May 20 and ending June 17. Though the model is focused on primary care, it could help more patients receive hospice and palliative care when appropriate, according to CMS. ACOs will then distribute payment to the participating primary care providers in their networks.

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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 hospice component of VBID, also called the MA carve-in, launched in 2021 and was originally slated to complete after four years.

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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. In addition to the payment recommendation, MedPAC did not propose any cuts to the aggregate payment cap for 2025, as it has previously for several years running. increase to keep pace with inflation. “At

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

CMS will not accept applications to the previously released CY 2025 Request for Applications for the Hospice Benefit Component of the VBID Model.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2024

UnitedHealth Group has taken steps to stabilize Change Healthcare and resume normal operations, with a full financial recovery expected in early 2025. Despite intensifying regulatory scrutiny on its deals, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) remains poised for further acquisitions.

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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. Can you walk us through that landscape?

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. We talk today with Betty Ferrell, who has been a nurse for 47 years, and is the founder and PI of ELNEC. As I argue on the podcast, ELNEC has likely done more to lift the primary palliative care skills of clinicians than any other initiative.

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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. “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

And so we’re working with our local clinical care organization in our part of the state to figure out a value-based reimbursement model for palliative care, which will become effective January 2025. A group of volunteers had brought the hospice concept from the United Kingdom to Oregon, according to Hagfors.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Gen Z includes individuals born between 1997 and 2025, according to the Pew Research Center. As more members of “Gen Z” come into the hospice workforce, employers will need to adapt to their unique perspectives, needs and priorities in order to maximize recruitment and retention.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently introduced a new rule that will require newly formed joint ventures (JVs) to disclose the net value of each participating asset at the onset of solidifying these deals. The requirement will take effect for all JVs with a formation date on or after Jan.

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NHPCO

MARCH 5, 2024

CMS will no longer be accepting applications for the calendar year (CY) 2025 Request for Applications. This means hospice will no longer be a part of the VBID model beginning January 1, 2025. Hospice providers currently contracted with MAOs will continue with their contracts for CY 2024.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This practice was first implemented by the IMPACT Act for years 2016 through 2025 and was previously extended to 2023. Clinicians have also used virtual visits to assess medication or care plans in real time. Additional studies further support the claim that changes to telehealth policy improved access.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2023

by 2025, up from 13.5% The proportion of seniors older than 65 in Missouri’s population is expected to reach 19.1% in 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hospice utilization in Missouri reached 50.2% Utah leads the nation in utilization at 60.4%.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

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

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

billion and $16 billion for Fiscal Year 2025. Last year, WBA poured money into health care provider investments and acquisitions, including the home-based care platform CareCentrix, Inc. and VillageMD. The company’s 2023 strategy will shift away from transactions of that magnitude. billion the prior year’s quarter.

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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. More patients, providers, and payers realized that a wider range of services could be delivered in the home, which aligns both with patient preferences and the goal of reducing costs.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

by 2025, up from 13.5% 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. Hospice utilization in Missouri reached 50.2% Utah leads the nation in utilization at 60.4%.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the 4% payment reduction if you don’t submit 90% of your data, it seems like we are picking up hints from CMS that there will be new hospice assessment tools that will be in the fiscal year 2025 proposed rule. OIG anticipates the audit’s results to roll out in the fiscal year 2025.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2023

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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Hospice News

AUGUST 31, 2022

As demand grows, we know we’ll need more resources from different avenues, with the bulk needed in our operations.”. Building career paths for hospice clinicians. Clinical workforce shortages in hospice and palliative care are among the biggest threats to patient access, say some providers. This program certainly helps our physician groups to grow.

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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. Virginia-base Blue Ridge services roughly 340 patients through its 2,200 square-mile service region, which extends across rural, urban and suburban communities. million dollars.

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2022

by 2025, up from 13.5% 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. Hospice utilization in Missouri reached 50.2% Utah leads the nation in utilization at 60.4%.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Raianne Melton: I just have to tell you, I have like two pages of stuff because there’s so much opportunity, and when we look at staffing in particular, in 2025, the majority, 75% of our employees are going to be millennials. What they care about is professional development. Cheryl, I know you’ve done some work in this area.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Amber Barnato is an expert in simulation studies. A health services researcher and palliative care physician, Amber lauds the ability of simulation studies to isolate one variable in a study. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Amber: I do. You know what?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And they can start July of 2025. Malaz: So hopefully in July we’ll be able to expand, not just us. But I know other healthcare system in Indiana, they can apply for the new program. They have one year to set it up. Purely architected. Hopefully things will work out well and we’ll see what will happen. Alex: Hopefully. But anyway.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. I view that almost the complete opposite, as much more of a success of what I think one of my colleagues ophthalmologist that in Texas says mission transfer.

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