Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The key point of contention around the SFP is the algorithm that CMS plans to use to determine which hospices should be in the program. Though the hospice community generally has voiced support for the program, many have said that the agency’s methodology for identifying hospices for the SFP is deeply flawed.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

Key data points include performance on the Hospice Item Set, the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys and other quality measures. HOPE is going to increase the amount of data that’s captured at the beginning of care, but then also create these touch points along a patient’s experience.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

” Despite these acknowledgments, signs point towards positive results. A previous CMS report released in November 2020 found that at that point the demonstration had reduced the agency’s costs by $26 million. . “Thus, careful consideration is merited for hose extrapolating these findings to other settings.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

Generally, signs point to heightened buyer activity this year, particularly among private equity as interest rates start to come down. But additional data point to a resurgence. Though many expect a hospice M&A rebound in 2024, the scales are tipping in favor of home health companies among buyers.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

The preparation right now is getting relationships to begin, meaning get yourself to the point where you have a contract with these Medicare Advantage plans that you check in with every two or three months.” The larger VBID demonstration continues until 2030 and covers services across the care continuum.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Those beneficiaries will need hospice at some point, even though they were enrolled fraudulently,” Clark told Hospice News. “At At some point a provider is going to have to pick up those patients’ care, and that’s a hard financial impact on sustainability.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

Improvements in hospice valuation trends have not come far enough in recent years to make the market a focal point for Addus, according to Executive Vice President and CFO Brian Poff. Obviously if [interest] rates come down in September, there’ll be a point we’ll come back in. payment rise in the U.S. the agency initially proposed.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Other sticking points for retention and quality have been a focus on developing organizational culture and encouraging employee engagement and staff recognition, she added. 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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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2024

For instance, the HOPE tool will have a more broad, comprehensive and robust approach to capturing the patient and family needs in “real-time,” compared to the points of admission and discharge under the current HIS set, she stated. Hospices can anticipate changes in the way that patient data are submitted, Kennedy indicated.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Signs points to yes, but that these conversations should be had with the patient,” study author Maureen Canavan, an epidemiologist at the Yale Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research Center, said in a press release.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In its letter , AREX accused Enhabit of “poor communication” that created “confusion” among investors through the SEC filing and pointed out that the document did not mention any consideration of a sale or alternative action.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Case in point, clinical leaders brought up rising costs and length of stay concerns as key points when the health system decided to expand palliative care consultation services across its emergency department, he said.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

These financial challenges can stress families to the breaking point, according to Karl Ulfers, CEO and co-founder of DUOS, a digital health and caregiver assistance startup. The aging system’s caregiving support is breaking, and the pandemic has just accelerated that breaking point in our system,” Ulfers told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Expanding that education and awareness is a pivotal starting point, he added. It’s having lots of different touch points with providers and parents to help the lines of communication always be there and always be open.” They need tons of education on what that diagnosis means and what care is available to them.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2024

At that point, I explain to them that the best that is going to happen is that she’s going to return to the memory care unit and die of dementia. So we tend to choose to live in denial of the fact that it’s happening or that it will happen at some point. Her family was unprepared. We all fear death.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

.” IntellaTriage in October 2022 secured new growth investment dollars in a funding round led by Pacific Lake Partners, with participation from Trilogy Search Partners, TTCER Partners, The Nashton Company, Aspect Investors, and Granite Point Partners. The exact dollar amount of these investments were confidential.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Though the research did not find a significant effect on the likelihood of documented mental health treatments following a palliative care consultation, the findings did point to common threads of poorer outcomes when these services were not used in concert. receiving these services versus 23.2%, respectively.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Noble has a strong track-record of growth, an experienced clinical and operations team and an enduring, patient-focused model of care that makes for a fantastic entry-point in the industry,” Lawson said. “We Noble’s hospice teams have cared for more than 1,500 patients, with a current average daily census of about 200, according to Lawson.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

When you have individuals with untreated eating disorders, the acute conditions go untreated and unmanaged and become other underlying chronic conditions at some point.” Data point to this trend as well. “There’s a portion of this population that doesn’t respond to primary interventions,” Brandt told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

percentage point productivity adjustment. NHPCO also pointed to rising costs associated with recruitment and retention and increased supply and fuel costs. Hospice providers have also reported significant wage increases required to address competition for health care workers.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can look at it from the individual point of view, and you can look at it from the physician point of view. From the individual point of view, it is really understanding how health care thinks and how it operates. They went so far as to say that the medical system has “hijacked” dying. And so what exactly is death literacy?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

We talk about how Canada got to this point, including the degree to which offering MAID to anyone who is eligible has become standard practice in many places. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. I don’t know if you want to add anything, Sonu?

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

Having a sufficient supply of clinicians is another key retention point, Belloumini indicated. Technologies that reduce patient documentation times, allow for smoother interdisciplinary collaboration and increase communication touch points with patients and caregivers are one way to improve efficiency and employee satisfaction, she explained.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

Point-of-care education was an effective tool to teach medical teams about the benefits of palliative care,” researchers indicated in the study. Palliative care was utilized by 6.5% Inpatient teams more consistently and independently considered palliative care for patients with heart failure, representing a cultural shift.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

“I haven’t ruled anything out at this point. We’ve been working with a number of stakeholders and committee members to ensure that everything at this point remains on the table to be thoughtfully discussed.” But I want to make sure primarily that the caregivers’ hands are not tied.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

According to Benson, palliative care providers can also improve transitions by reducing anxiety, bolstering coping mechanisms amongst patients and collaborating with community resources, such as home health services or hospices.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Program integrity issues that have heated up in the hospice space during the past five years reached a boiling point in 2023. It’s a sign that CMS is getting to a point of concern from a policy perspective of internal changes that may impact who actually owns and operates hospices.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2024

In its response to AREX, Enhabit also pointed to growth trends in its hospice business. “To be clear, seven of the proposed eight Enhabit independent directors were not even on the Board at that time, having joined the Company on the date of the spin-off or thereafter.” Enhabit’s hospice revenue grew by 2.9%

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Decisions around the Alliance’s new logo were intentional, which includes a five-point star symbolizing a group of people holding hands in a circle with the negative space between representing a home icon. Other goals include being a driving force in transforming the future of care delivery in the home, he added.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But it’s more likely at this point that this will continue to get kicked down the road again at the end of 2025. “It may be a necessity to require that we actually write new legislation to replace the Ryan Haight Act, or reconcile the historical obsolescence of it.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Case in point, the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation’s Medical Facility (CMF) in July unveiled a new palliative spiritual care training model. Efforts are ramping up to improve end-of-life outcomes among prison populations, including other volunteer-based hospice and palliative care programs.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

The trend points to ways that patients might receive palliative services through new avenues, such as geriatrics, primary care or home health care. A range of medical specialties are incorporating palliative care principles into their care models.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

More than two-thirds of these adults will require daily assistance from a caregiver at some point as they age, reported the Administration for Community Living (ACL), a sub-agency of the U.S. As far as support for caregivers, that can make or break [a patient’s] access point when there is not enough support for them or that caregiver.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The agency then gives the provider one point for each threshold it meets and adds them to determine the final score. Each indicator affects the single score, and then the hospice receives one point for meeting each criteria for each of the 10 claim-based measures. So they can be from zero to a perfect 10.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Hospice workers do such a good job of pointing people in the right direction with the resources that they give them, it’s just typically limited with prolonged support that after loss professionals can help with,” Hathaway told Hospice News. “We Hospice] organizations could help fill that gap and reach across the other line, so to speak.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

There were really very few therapeutic interventions by OT, PT, and Speech at any point. So it gave me the privilege and opportunity to take care of patients from the point of their first hospitalization for heart failure throughout readmissions, LVAD implantations and subsequent transplant or bridge therapy.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

Data on the pain and symptom impacts are a “useful starting point” for hospice and palliative care providers to shape their trauma-informed care approaches, Kotwal.

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