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CMS to Allow Concurrent Hospice Care During VBID Extension

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Beginning in 2026, MAOs will be able to limit their hospice coverage to providers within their networks. The opportunity to provide concurrent care is among the most significant departures from the structure of the traditional Medicare Hospice Benefit, which requires patients to forgo other forms of care.

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Tech Startup Autumn Launches Death Care Digital Marketplace

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billion industry by 2026. Autumn is the latest entrant to a cottage industry that is springing up around end-of-life and bereavement care. The market research firm StrategyR projects that the budding “death care services” sector will be a $147.8

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Proposed California Bill Aims For $25 Health Care Worker Minimum Wage

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The legislation would require health care facility employers with 10,000 full-time workers or more to pay a minimum wage of $23 per hour starting in June 2024, with year-over-year increases until reaching the $25 per hour mark in 2026. After that, the minimum wage would be indexed around inflation or 3.5%.

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Payers to Hospices: Don’t Wait to Start Working with MA Plans

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I feel also signals that they’re probably not going to roll out mandatory [participation] as they were expecting to, we’ve heard, in 2026, potentially.” SCAN is a $4.3 billion nonprofit Medicare Advantage (MA) organization that covers more than 285,000 members across California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas.

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Voices: Melissa Kozak, Founder and Head of CitusHealth

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million health care workers by 2026, staffing challenges are escalating, pushing even clinical leaders into direct care roles — a trend that may lead to less oversight of charting and audits. How can increasing the efficiency of your clinical and non-clinical staff help improve compliance?

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How Proposed Cuts to Home Health Payments Could Impact Hospice M&A

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Senate that would prevent CMS from reducing home health rates before 2026. For one, CMS may make changes to the proposed payment rates when the rule is finalized. Also, lawmakers have introduced a bill in the U.S.

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Understanding Nursing Shortages in the U.S. for 2023

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If current trends hold, the report projects severe healthcare staff shortages in some states as soon as 2026. Of those, 21 will fall short of filling the demand for qualified RNs by at least 1,000 nurses by 2026. However, others will keep up with demand and surpass it. T he Mercer report provides details for the 48 contiguous states.

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