Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Some providers have a learning curve around the complex process of working out payer contracts and sustainable business models for their community-based palliative care programs, according to Goldstein.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Roughly 1,168 hospices provided care to at least one VBID beneficiary that year, with 908 providers out-of-network and 206 that were in-network, Driessen said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Hospice providers have increasingly turned to technology to connect with hard-to-reach patients, streamline back-office functions and stay ahead of the curve on worsening health conditions. Many operators have likewise leveraged tech to better engage employees in hopes of stronger recruitment and retention.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

LeadingAge also recommended that: Congress create a hospice room-and-board level of care that allows patients to die outside their homes without qualifying for general inpatient care or inpatient respite care Congress instruct CMS to allow patients to receive the respite level of care in their homes Federal lawmakers clarify minimum standards and the (..)

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Nevertheless, Montiel had a learning curve as Silverstone got off the ground. Silverstone was fortunate to have raised a larger sum than they actually needed to start the business, which gave them a small cushion to ease some of the pandemic headwinds, Montiel said at the conference.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2023

The hospice and post-acute care provider has roughly 30,000 active employees and is “working hard” to stay ahead of this curve, Nycz said during the Staffing Summit. It’s really increased using our capacity in education to bring in more frontline staff,” Nycz told Hospice News during the summit.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Health care leaders have a learning curve when it comes to understanding the needs and experiences of frontline staff, according to Dr. Sachin Jain, president and CEO of SCAN Health Plan. “We Home health and hospice agencies saw clinician turnover rise an average of 16% to 20% in 2020 compared to previous years, the study found.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While this created a learning curve for workers born before 1997, Gen Z employees come into the workforce with not only a comfort level with technology but the expectation that it will be integral to their jobs.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In my experience, not all costs are covered by insurance, and it can be a learning curve to navigate the different billing departments of care. “It’s just difficult to negotiate with insurance companies to get payments, even though they were supposed to make the benefit available in my state.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Adjustments have occurred, like implementation of the “U-shaped curve” in reimbursement, the service intensity add-on and methods for calculating the payment cap to name a few. The Medicare Hospice Benefit turned 40-years-old in 2022, and in that time the program has remained fundamentally unchanged. The U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But this level of coordination will involve a learning curve on both sides, according to Brooks-LaSure. The agency also plans to leverage partnerships with the private sector — payers, health care providers, tech firms and vendors — to effect system-wide change, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure told the crowd at HLTH.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2023

Integration, team-based coordinated care through advanced primary care and ACOs is really the linchpin to driving better outcomes and bending the health care cost curve,” Fowler said. “As As part of the strategy, we laid out five objectives.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

There’s a big learning curve there.”. “One really big pitfall is not understanding what makes these payers tick and what goals they’re looking for. It’s a different denominator as far as thinking around what the goals are and how you’re going to measure them.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

Hospices — who provide about 50% of community-based palliative care in the United States — also have a learning curve. Quantifying the potential cost savings through reductions in higher-acuity care will be the crucial arrow that hospices need to have in their quiver.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

C-suite executives need an adaptable approach to their compliance strategies and public outreach efforts to stay ahead of the curve, she stated. Poor and negligent operators in the hospice space have hindered legitimate providers’ ability to compete and break down common misconceptions about their services, Littlefield indicated.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 29, 2023

Simply thinking about the ways that Big Data could be enabled in your organization and adjusting accordingly will get you ahead of the curve. Cloud computing, mobile health, and EHRs probably weren’t originally your specialty either, but your organization probably still benefits from them.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But some providers may have a learning curve as they extend their missions beyond the traditional scope of clinical care and bereavement services, according to Rob Mechanic, executive director for the Institute for Accountable Care, speaking at a recent conference by the National Association of ACOs.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

How do you tackle the learning curve between your clinical expertise and the business acumen that is necessary to lead an organization? We have a dedicated Spanish-speaking team of clinicians, community liaisons and intake [staff], which has been key to growing our business in the Latino community.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Integration, team-based coordinated care through advanced primary care and ACOs is really the linchpin to driving better outcomes and bending the health care cost curve,” CMMI Director Elizabeth Fowler said at the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) conference earlier this year. “As “Accountable Care is the cornerstone of that strategy.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

However, managed care plans also have a learning curve as more care moves into the home, according to AccentCare CEO Steve Rodgers. With the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model now in its third year, providers see a need to adapt. The big one is the continued growth of managed care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It’s definitely been a learning curve the whole way. Can you give me a sense of Serenity’s growth since those early days in 2021 versus your current scale? We’ve had very rapid growth, faster than I would have imagined. It was something I’d never done before.

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American In-Home Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These tech tools allow older adults to stay connected, manage daily tasks more easily, and explore new experiences, all without the steep learning curve. Senior-friendly technology is helping to bridge the gap, turning frustration and uncertainty into ease and empowerment.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

If our current growth curve continues as is, by this time next year our hospice census alone should be three to four times what it is today,” said Montiel. Our needs for non-clinical staffing continue going up.

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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2023

The rationale behind the transaction rests on four pillars , Option Care executives recently indicated — value-based reimbursement, the importance of scale in payer negotiations, a desire to get ahead of the curve as the industry changes and rising significance of data capabilities.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Some of it was familiar because of home health, but a lot was very different, so there was a little bit of a learning curve.”. “Tony [recently] asked if I could do what I do best and take my management skills to ALC Hospice Care. I took on the challenge.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

The learning curve is slower for that community, and as such that growth trajectory is going to be a little bit slower. In a program like we have in Indiana or Kentucky, where we’re not doing a joint venture, and people don’t have a clue what PACE is, we’ve had to put up radio ads, billboards.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Getting ahead of this curve will include having a supportive organizational culture – one that attracts and keeps a dedicated workforce, according to Andrew Molosky, CEO of Florida-based Chapters Health.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Chapters unrelenting commitment to best-in-class employee experience is the currency fueling our ambitious growth curve,” CEO Andrew Molovsky told Hospice News in an email. To achieve this growth, the organization has been focused on ensuring a positive work environment for its employees to ensure it can meet swelling demand.

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AlayaCare

JULY 10, 2019

Complete the following sentence: Working at AlayaCare is… The steepest and most interesting learning curve you will ever encounter! What is your favourite snack in the AlayaCare kitchen? Gummy worms or popcorn. What is your favourite memory from working at AlayaCare so far? Last week my team and I had a team event after work a day.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 21, 2023

By leveraging the latest technologies and tools, businesses can stay ahead of the curve and provide high-quality care in a rapidly evolving healthcare and homecare landscape.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In other words, a health system can partner with a home health or hospice company to expand its reach into the home setting with a shorter learning curve — or having to build the infrastructure from the ground up. Health systems homeward bound.

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Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The adoption curve isn’t apparent, though – healthcare, ironically, is an industry that can be slow to adopt new technologies. The added burden of onboarding exhausts existing employees, while the disconnect with their new place of work scares off new hires.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Digital transformation can help streamline operations, improve patient outcomes, and increase efficiency, so taking the necessary steps now will ensure that your home care agency stays ahead of the curve in the future.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Simply thinking about the ways data could be leveraged in your organization and adjusting accordingly will get you ahead of the curve.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Simply thinking about the ways data could be leveraged in your organization and adjusting accordingly will get you ahead of the curve.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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