Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

By 2026, we aim to scale personalized care plans, voice recognition technology, and mature predictive analytics capabilities, ensuring we continue leading the way in patient-centered, data-driven care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 14, 2025

The hospice has historically grown by establishing new locations, anticipating the addition of roughly 15 to 18 de novos in 2025 and 2026, pending regulatory approvals in certain areas, he stated. We dont have a robust M&A team, we dont budget or have a game plan for any acquisitions to take place, Bartness said.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

If enacted, the bill proposes to reimburse for those services at 200% of the routine home care rate for Fiscal Year 2026. 1, 2026 through Sep. The drafted Hospice CARE Act included potential avenues to improve payment for high-acuity palliative treatments. This would be effective Oct.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2024

House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to markup a new bill that would extend those flexibilities through the end of 2026. However, those flexibilities are currently slated to expire on Dec. 31, 2024, leaving those providers in limbo over whether or not they can continue those services. This week, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2022

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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Congress is currently mulling legislation that could extend current telehealth regulations through 2026. Expanding virtual patient and recertification visits allows for better use of clinical resources and improved capacity, according to the coalition. The bill has since stalled on the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The bill’s introduction follows legislation floated last year that proposed to expand Medicare coverage of telehealth and make permanent some of the flexibilities implemented during the pandemic.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

A bill currently before Congress would extend through 2026 regulatory flexibilities related to telehealth, including the ability to recertify patients for hospice care. If enacted, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, would as of 2025 extend the flexibilities by two years. It also includes some exceptions.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The company’s de novo strategy includes plans to open 10 new PACE centers by 2026, with three locations planned in Ohio. BoldAge provides care to more than 400 individuals in New Jersey, California, Indiana, Kentucky and South Carolina. Demographic trends are fueling BoldAge’s strategic growth.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

1, 2026 at the earliest. “Although we support these proposals, we are concerned the January 2025 implementation date will not provide sufficient time both for hospices, particularly smaller and resource-limited providers.” The industry groups have requested that CMS push back the implementation date to Jan.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2024

If you’re looking to buy or thinking about growing, now is probably a good time, because the conditions will be more fitful toward sellers coming into 2025 and then 2026,” Kulik said. Depending on which side of the table you’re on, it might also be time to wait, it might be time to act before too long.”

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

Congress currently is mulling a bill , the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, that proposes to extend the expiration of regulatory flexibilities tied to telehealth through 2026. Currently set to expire Dec. 31, these waivers included the ability for hospices to recertify patients via telehealth services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Further, the bill would create a short-term home respite level of care for when respite care is provided for at least eight hours during a 24-hour period for no more than five days during an election period, effective on or after October 1, 2026. These care days would would also count toward the hospice’s payment cap.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

State of telepalliative regulations Congress currently is weighing a bill, the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act , that proposes to extend the expiration of regulatory flexibilities tied to telehealth through 2026. Currently set to sunset Dec.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Congress is currently mulling legislation that could extend current telehealth regulations through 2026. Currently set to expire Dec. 31, palliative providers have been preparing for the sunset of telehealth waivers that allowed for expanded utilization of virtual care. The bill has since stalled on the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

BoldAge has pledged to expand its locations from four to 10 by 2026. If we can’t do it in-house, we want to use somebody else. We contract with palliative care wherever we are before we start. Where does the medical staff fit into achieving that kind of growth? We started out with the two centers, which are under one contract.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

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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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It’s about mental healthand I think when you feel good mentally, and your body feels good, and you feel you contribute to society and your job, it makes everything better,” said Wolfe, senior director of clinical education Life Link III in Minneapolis and BCEN’s 2025-2026 board of directors chair.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

Legislators have recently introduced a bill , the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital and Ambulance Access Act, which proposes to extend the flexibilities through 2026. We have to get ready either way.” Lawmakers for the last several years have brought legislation forward that would make the temporary telehealth waivers permanent.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

By the end of 2026, we will add two more. Then we have two programs in the central region of the U.S., one in Evansville, Indiana; that program opened on March 1. The other program is right across the state line in Owensboro, Kentucky; that center opened also on March 1. So we have four operational programs today.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Among the recent CMMI demonstrations with palliative payment potential is the Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model, which began January 1, 2022 and is set to sunset December 31, 2026. The KCC model includes waivers that allow patients to receive kidney dialysis treatments and transplant services concurrently with palliative care.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 28, 2023

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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Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The scholarships are supported by Johnson & Johnson for the 2025-2026 academic year. Attention Minority Nursing Students The Foundation of the National Student Nurses' Association is delighted to offer funding for diversity scholarships.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Home health aides are projected to be the third fastest-growing occupation in all industries, set to rise nearly 50 percent by 2026 from 2016 levels (via US Department of Labor). Receiving home care is a safer alternative than nursing homes, hospitals or long-term care facilities – chances of infection are much lower.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 23, 2023

million healthcare workers by 2026. These statistics help illustrate the magnitude of the problem: From 2019 to 2020, job vacancies for nursing personnel increased up to 30%, and the trend is expected to persist, with an estimated shortage of up to 3.2

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 18, 2023

million jobs projected to be open in home-based care and senior living facilities by 2026, it’s more important than ever to help our customers meet this challenge,” said HCP CEO Bud Meadows. With over 7.8

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AlayaCare

JULY 25, 2022

this industry was worth $19 billion in 2019 – and is expected to be near $44 billion by 2026 – a figure that does not compensate for pandemic influence. In the U.S.,

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 19, 2023

Between January 1, 2024 and June 30, 2024, over 12,000 skilled nursing facilities will take part in an initial data submission period to meet requirements of the SNF QRP for the first half of 2026. If you can’t make it, register anyway and we’ll send you the recording as soon as it’s available.

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Diversity Nursing

JANUARY 5, 2023

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that more than 275,000 additional Nurses are needed from 2020 to 2030, and that employment opportunities for Nurses will grow at 9%, faster than all other occupations from 2016 through 2026. If you have anxiety about being a new Nurse, consider one of the most important.

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AlayaCare

APRIL 19, 2021

this industry was worth $19 billion in 2019 – and is expected to near $44 billion by 2026 – a figure that does not compensate for pandemic influence. In the U.S.,

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

That its global market is projected to top $56 billion by 2026 speaks to this underserved need that is an intimate part of any agency’s ability to service the full home health landscape. The demand for pediatric home health care – perhaps the most sensitive, challenging type of service for agencies to offer – is escalating.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 13, 2023

CoreQ: Short Stay Discharge Measure Secondly, CMS is proposing the adoption of the CoreQ: Short Stay Discharge (CoreQ: SS DC) measure beginning with the FY 2026 SNF QRP. We first shared with you details of CoreQ in an April 2022 edition of “ Rehab Realities.” The time now engage more fully as an IDT in documentation and coding.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JUNE 11, 2023

PMID: 35404650 Health Education England (2017) The multiprofessional framework for advanced clinical practice, available at: [link] [accessed 31/5/23] Health Education England (2022) Allied Health Professions’ Research and Innovation Strategy for England, available at: [link] [accessed 31/5/23] Health Education England South West (2022) ‘ Developing (..)

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NHPCO

APRIL 28, 2023

Limiting patient choice: The VBID extension gives MA Organizations the ability to limit the hospice choices available to their plan enrollees starting in 2026. NHPCO will work with CMS and Congressional leaders to ensure that is the case.

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