Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The final rule also states that the telehealth flexibilities implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency will expire at the end of this year unless Congress intervenes. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a nearly 2.9% Industry organizations were quick to denounce the pay cut.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reiterated that the agency will not allow hospices to recertify patients after the COVID-19 public health emergency expires. . This waiver will expire at the end of the PHE.”. The statement from CMS does not represent a shift in policy.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A group of 39 organizations recently penned a letter urging congressional leaders to reconsider the expiration of telehealth waivers set forth during the public health emergency. Currently set to expire Dec. Several state-based hospice and palliative associations signed the letter.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

We have a hard time finding clinicians sometimes to do all the face-to-face visits, so if the flexibilities expire that would be a big hit to rural hospices. Were very glad for the recently extended flexibilities , and we hope that continues indefinitely. We have towns that we serve where there are no physicians there.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Initially set to sunset with the VBIDs expiration in 2030, CMS ended the hospice carve-in late last year, citing operational challenges related to the hospice component that limited or decreased participation.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

Complicating the matter is the reality that telehealth flexibilities implemented during the pandemic are slated to expire at the end of this year. However, when those two types of services were combined, payments fell between $397 and $496. In a recent hearing before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, U.S. We’re with you.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The forthcoming expiration of telehealth flexibilities implemented during the pandemic could have a devastating impact on vulnerable populations, including those receiving hospice or palliative care. Currently, temporary federal rules allowing for greater access to telehealth are set to expire on Dec.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

At the end of this year, telehealth flexibilities implemented during the pandemic are slated to expire. We can’t allow those flexibilities to expire, and we need to work closer with our state partners, because much of the flexibility that comes from telehealth means being able to go over state lines,” Becerra said.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Some of the telehealth flexibilities implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency are set to expire on Dec. This could have potentially disastrous impacts for palliative care providers and patients alike, according to some providers. 31 while others are becoming permanent.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2022

As HHS committed to earlier, we will provide a 60-day notice to states before any possible termination or expiration.”. HHS has indicated that the telehealth flexibilities would remain in place for at least five months after the PHE expires. Both patients and providers have come to rely on its increased availability. .

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Generally, the temporary flexibilities and waivers will expire with the federal declaration. The 1135 waiver for patient recertification via telehealth will end 151 days after the PHE expires. Operators must comply with this requirement by the end of the first full quarter after the PHE declaration expires.

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2023

The agency proposed to continue to allow hospice recertifications via telecommunication avenues for patients receiving routine home care, a waiver that would otherwise expire with the PHE’s end. “We

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Without further action the waivers will expire not long after the COVID PHE concludes. I think it would be short sighted to let them expire. Based on these and other data, expanded utilization of telehealth appears to be a win-win scenario for most stakeholders. But it still comes with a catch: These flexibilities are temporary.

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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. That’s a huge burden on those patients, and it’s wildly less efficient as well.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

However, by 2023 the insured population will likely fall closer to 90%, due to the expiration of the Medicaid continuous enrollment requirements, Jacqueline Fiori, economist in the National Health Statistics Group at the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said during a virtual media briefing.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2024

However, those flexibilities are currently slated to expire on Dec. During the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS health care providers’ ability to deliver care via telehealth, including hospices and palliative care providers. Since then, virtual services have boomed. This week, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2022

When it does expire, hospices need to be aware of potential legal risks. Telehealth flexibilities may expire. While HHS has indicated that these waivers would remain in place for at least five months after the PHE expires, they have given no word on whether any of those flexibilities would become permanent.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We recently hired two full-time RN case managers that were coming off of expired contract nursing jobs. One of them was tired of the travel and the other one simply saw the contract expire.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Currently set to expire Jan. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 ensured that CMS would extend telehealth waivers set in place during the PHE for an additional 151 days (or roughly five months) after it expires to allow for a transitional adjustment period. 11, 2023, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These flexibilities are set to expire after the COVID-19 public heath emergency (PHE) ends. The telehealth waivers would remain in place for 151 days after the PHE expires to give operators time to retool, according to HHS. This is currently slated to occur in October, though the federal government has the option to extend it.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2024

Many of those patients may have been referred to hospice instead in the absence of that waiver, which has since expired, according to Allison. “We’ve Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) temporary waiver of the requirement of a three-day hospitalization before a patient becomes eligible for a skilled nursing facility.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2024

Temporary waivers implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency will expire Dec. The research found that telehealth services were associated with increased outpatient costs and decreased emergency care spending. The findings come at a time of debate around the future outlook of telehealth regulations.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

Set to expire later this month, the public health emergency (PHE) is likely to continue, along with regulatory waivers that expanded telehealth utilization and streamlined other health care processes. . As HHS committed to earlier, we will provide a 60-day notice to states before any possible termination or expiration.”.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Additionally, some waivers pertaining to telehealth, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and other facets of the health care system are set to expire with the PHE on May 11, the Kaiser Health Foundation reported. The announcement comes as the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

The future of telehealth in hospice care delivery is among the questions swirling around the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11. Certain telehealth flexibilities temporarily implemented during the PHE are sticking around until the end of 2024, while others are rolling away as it expires.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

With the flexibilities of the PHE expiring, hospices need to ensure that all telehealth communication meets those requirements and that, to the extent they made use of the flexibilities of the PHE, related policies and processes are updated to reflect current standards.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

The DEA recently proposed a regulation for prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine after the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) expires. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) may imperil hospice patients’ access to essential medications, stakeholders have indicated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

While these flexibilities are temporary and are set to expire five months after the PHE ends, many providers contend that telehealth has become an integral component of care delivery. Telehealth has boomed due to a series of 1135 waivers that CMS implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and provisions in the CARES Act.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The agency’ RFI is open to public comment for a 60-day period that expires on Dec. We look forward to hearing from our stakeholders on the need for a single source for this information for the entire health sector.”.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Unlike patents, trade secrets dont expire, provided they remain confidential. Pay especially close attention to non-disclosure agreements to ensure that the confidentiality obligations for trade secrets does not expire with the other obligations in the agreement.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We have begun to see the early impact from the expiration of the public health emergency,” Poff said. “We “We were pleased to see continued improvement in our hospice business in the third quarter with positive sequential trends in same store revenue average daily census length of stay and patient days with same store revenues of 3.1%

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JUNE 27, 2024

Hospice News / Merz Photography Hospice News / Merz Photography Pamela Duncan Owens, chief compliance officer, Agape Care Telehealth unknowns Among the significant changes coming down the hospice regulatory pipeline this year is the expiration of telehealth waivers temporarily implemented during pandemic, which are set to expire by Dec.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) most recently extended the PHE period to expire in July. But without further regulatory or legislative action, those pathways will close when the federally declared emergency ends. The agency has not indicated whether or not they will renew it.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

The carve-in, formally known as the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID), will expire on Dec. Though the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in is going away at the end of this year, those operators still have a role to play in value-based care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The bill was spurred by a 2013 recommendation from a previous government body — the Commission on Long Term Care — for Congress to convene another group to carry on its work after its term expired. Friedman, president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Wage negotiations in Oregon have been in the works for nearly a year since nursing contracts expired in April 2023. The nonprofit health care system operates medical centers, critical access hospitals and hospice facilities in Alaska, Oregon and Washington. Another round of negotiation is anticipated early this month.

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