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CMS Extends Hospice VBID Through 2030

Hospice News

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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Compassus, VNS Health Team Up to Manage End-of-Life Care for Medicare Advantage Payers

Hospice News

Compassus and VNS Health have formed a value-based collaboration aimed at improving access, awareness and quality of hospice and palliative care services. The two home-based care organizations are joining forces in a Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model partnership.

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Acadian Health Expands Services in Texas

Hospice News

The company’s mobile health care clinicians integrate virtual visits with primary, hospice and palliative care services to assess patients’ needs in the home to reduce emergency and urgent care utilization and associated costs. Its subsidiaries provide care across 72 counties in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas.

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Avera at Home Gets Personal with Kore Cares Joint Venture

Hospice News

Its services include nursing care, meal preparation, companionship, housekeeping, transportation, assistance with activities of daily living and companionship, and a senior care coordination program. “By The JV is currently honing its focus on expanding access to home care for seniors across South Dakota. Census Bureau.

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Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Uintah Basin

Hospice News

“The investment in Uintah Basin Home Health and Hospice will allow us to enhance the care coordination with Uintah Basin Medical Center and provide better health outcomes for the patients and clients we serve in the Uintah Basin area.”. Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide.

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Voices: Josie Aquino, LMSW, ACC,  Director, Product Management, VNS Health

Hospice News

In this Voices article, Josie Aquino, Director, Product Management, VNS Health talks about how VNS Health is using data and analytics to improve end-of-life care. She explains why VNS is bullish toward concerns about a hospice carve-in, and she also shares an outlook on the VBID demonstration’s extension through 2030.

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Program Integrity, Health Equity, Workforce Pressures Top of Mind for Hospice Leaders in 2024

Hospice News

Among them is an evolving conversation around potential changes to the Medicare Hospice Benefit, an increasing focus on equitable access and service diversification to engage patients further upstream. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended through 2030. It can be burdensome at times for providers.

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