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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Having a low vacancy rate has improved the hospice’s clinical capacity and helped with timely access for patients and their families, Franchitto said. HopeHealth recently lowered its staffing vacancy rate to 5.4%, after initially setting a goal of under 8% of all positions organizationwide.

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APRIL 26, 2024

We have really low turnover with the staff in the department, and have higher satisfaction with the staff.” One reason some of them had left was boredom due to the low number of home visits they were making, Gatian indicated.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

However, hospice utilization among these patients remains low. Utilization by heart failure patients is growing, and there are many reasons for that, but the numbers still consistently are low,” Hiller said. The disease in 2022 was mentioned on more than 457,000 U.S. death certifications.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nurses at PeaceHealth’s Sacred Heart Home Care Services have voted to authorize a strike, citing low wages and staffing strains. But as PeaceHealth continues to low-ball us and leave us without a contract, we’re losing the nurses we need to care for our most vulnerable community members.”

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2024

Providers also reported significant administrative burdens — manual data entry, manual letter processes, prolonged outreach processes with low conversions, many mandatory reports requiring delivery at various intervals, demanding data analytics and significant data upkeep in patient charts.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Low palliative care utilization is associated with higher risk of mental health challenges among patients with pancreatic cancer, recent research found.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The parameters around establishing standard proof of maleficence are set relatively low in most civil hospice fraud cases, according to Porter. Most False Claims Act cases have a really low burden of what’s called a preponderance of evidence, which is essentially 50%,” Porter said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 25, 2024

Garnet] continues to be challenged with significant labor expenses, inflation on supplies and equipment, and low payor reimbursement rates,” the health system indicated in a statement. This is estimated to save Garnett $4.6 million in salaries and benefits. The restructuring is the result of financial headwinds, including decreased demand.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Researchers compared data on interventions and outcomes from high-income, middle-income and low-income countries. However, the authors indicated that more research was needed on palliative care outcomes in low-income countries, as well as among lower-income populations or marginalized racial or ethnic groups.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It has a low patient census and sold its license to Mission. “This transition allowed the sellers to blend their professional expertise with a personally meaningful initiative, while ensuring their Utah hospice continued under capable new ownership.” Angel’s Crossing serves three counties in Utah.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

For low-income families, care is still a priority, Russell said. “As Make sure you have enough administrative support to keep the burden on the providers low. “These partnerships allowed us to quickly establish these clinics without the need for significant investment in brick-and-mortar facilities.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

More than 83% of those will occur in low- and middle-income countries in which access to health care is limited. “Palliative care is neglected as a global health priority, and health systems around the world must better prepare to meet the growing need.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The work that we’re doing on end-of-life care in terms of modernizing the benefit – this is low hanging fruit. No, it’s not low hanging fruit, it’s picking the fruit up off the ground. “We’re not going to solve [this] by throwing more money at it or having more audits and senseless routines or hoops to jump through.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

To help reduce burden on compliant providers, initial review volumes will be low and adjusted based on results. “To combat fraud, waste, and abuse under the hospice benefit, CMS will expand prepayment medical review this September in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas,” the agency indicated in a statement. “To

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This implies expected low-to-mid single digit MA market growth relative to current enrollment. The agency projects that total MA enrollment will reach 35.7 million people following the open enrollment period slated to begin later this month, representing 51% of all Medicare beneficiaries. This is up from 34.3 million as of September 2024.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Technology-enhanced transitional palliative care] is a feasible, low cost and sustainable strategy to enhance [family caregiver] support in rural areas,” researches indicated in the study. For reimbursement, providers relied on the Transitional Care Management (TCM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) billing codes.

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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2023

to a low of $69.37, a 52.45% difference. on the high end and a low of $73.49. For one, the all-stock transaction preserves Option Care Health’s capital and maintains their low leverage of debt, which hovers around 2x of EBITDA. During the past 12 months, Amedisys’ stock prices have see-sawed from a high of $131.32

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

We’re hoping that this is low-hanging fruit for us all to look at and hopefully duplicate to other states,” Scully said. It’s working out the mechanisms for funding and programs that can utilize technology in terms of sharing resources that can help others.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Help them identify the low-hanging fruit. The benchmark for measuring clickthrough rates in the health care industry is really low, Massey said. If a company sees a social media clickthrough rate as low as 0.05%, then they are meeting that benchmark. Are there patients calling frequently after hours?

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Home health care providers are increasingly recognizing the clinical value of palliative care, despite its tricky payer landscape and relatively low margins. Hospices have a much larger presence in the space, but more home health agencies are showing an interest — including companies that provide both of those services.

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JULY 1, 2024

Although we found that [palliative care] physicians have highly positive attitudes about the value of [pain medicine] specialists, referral rates remain low, even for [implantable drug delivery system] implantation, which has perhaps the largest body of evidence for patients with complex cancer-associated pain,” researchers wrote.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Many of these interventions are low cost or no cost and are also low-risk in terms of thinking about the long-term adverse effects that we are often concerned about when it comes to prescription medications like opioids and benzodiazepines. “ As the idea of integrative palliative care has emerged, so have questions about funding.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

We’ve kept our leverage very low. We do that because we have a very low corporate overhead. We adapted to that in COVID, and that keeps our corporate overhead low. Their cost of capital was very expensive. Now we’re in a very good position at New Day, because we’ve got great investment partners.

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JUNE 21, 2024

Hospice utilization runs low in Mississippi compared to national averages. Seniors 65 and older are projected to represent more than a quarter (25.3%) of the Magnolia State’s overall population by 2030, a rise from 17.5% currently, according to projections from the U.S. Census Bureau. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

To reduce the impact internally, hospice leaders need a system in place to identify high- and low-risk processes in terms of compliance, Gerke said. We need to guide staff as to where they spend their time around high-risk and low-risk areas. It’s not just leadership saying that we need to do this or that.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Croix Hospice often looks for markets in which hospice utilization is comparatively low, including historically underserved rural communities, St. The proportion of seniors older than 65 in Missouri’s population is expected to reach 19.1% by 2025, up from 13.5% in 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. As part of its growth strategy, St.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now, it doesn’t ferret out a distinction between high-quality and low-quality providers of services for purposes of assigning that enhanced oversight,” Dombi said. “So Stakeholders, including hospice providers and members of Congress, have called on CMS to postpone the program and revise that algorithm.

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JULY 30, 2024

A palliative care team can introduce interventions such as low-dose opioids to help reduce breathlessness and pain. Breathlessness is one of COPD’s most distressing symptoms, according to Iyer. Patients often describe it as a horrific experience that can feel like drowning, he said.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Few patients discuss ACP with their providers, and marginalized communities, including individuals with low incomes and non-English speakers, are even less likely to have the conversation.” The post Congress to Mull End-of-Life Planning Bills appeared first on Hospice News.

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MAY 30, 2024

That may not be at the peak of what we saw in the 2021 timeframe, but the right opportunities are still seeing significant value,” Palamara told Hospice News.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

And it’s rural with low population density. The geography is too large and the population density too low. We’ve been putting all the building blocks in place while at the same time dealing with unusually low census. No one can remember the last time New York State gave a CON into a hospice.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Sweet Dreams also involves the development of a personalized evening bedtime ritual; aroma therapy; sound or music therapy; warm, sometimes weighted blankets, and other activities to promote comfort such as low lighting, soft music or soothing conversations.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

A 2020 meta-analysis of 15 studies on burnout among palliative care nurses found a 24% prevalence for emotional exhaustion, 30% for depersonalization and 28% for feelings of low personal accomplishment.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Medicare covers most expenses related to palliative care, but as with other health care services, reimbursement remains low. The INPCS has made an Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care Neurology (EPEC-N) curriculum freely available on its website for anyone who wishes to access it, from providers to patients to family members.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Contributing to the low rate is the size of the state’s population. New York’s hospice utilization rate was the lowest in the nation in 2020 at 24% among Medicare decedents, the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. Utah had the highest rate at 60.7%.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

CMS did cite a few caveats in its impact analysis, such as relatively low rates of enrollment in the program as some differences in patient/provider characteristics compared to non-participants. About 83% of enrollees transitioned out of MCCM and into traditional hospice, which accounted for nearly 70% of the savings, the agency reported. .

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

. “I’m excited to begin building a differentiated platform focused on connecting the economies of scale of larger platforms with the benefits of local agencies, to thrive as a low-cost provider and to target the growing Medicare Advantage market.”.

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