Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sinai looked to expand its palliative care program, the health system opted to pursue partnerships with providers that have a longer history of developing payor contracts for those services. However, about 50% of community-based palliative care providers are hospices, according to the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

I have spent about 11 years total with Optum and then worked with Aspire, but now I’m currently working with Contessa and Amedisys to help support palliative care at home programs. That’s what Contessa was founded on and we’ve been able to expand on that for palliative care at home services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) floated the possibility of a combination in March in light of their existing, highly collaborative working relationship. With extraordinary opportunity comes the challenge of significant obligation.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Generally, Amedisys’ palliative care services will benefit BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s members living with complex and serious conditions such as cancer or heart failure. Amedisys projects its higher-acuity care segment’s revenue to more than triple in 2023, however, largely driven by growth in the Palliative Care at Home arm.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Deal volume for non-medical home care companies outstripped that for hospice or home health during the first half of the year. As of the end of Q2, this included 23 deals compared to 17 each for Medicare-certified home health and for hospice, according to a report by M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

Capital Caring offers palliative services through its Primary Care at Home program. Most of these services are reimbursed by private insurance coverage or through Medicare or Medicaid payment avenues, Cone stated. And also that it’s a service available to those that have no insurance.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I’ve had lots of conversations with policymakers on both sides in Congress, and they all agree that health care at home is where we need to go. Every lawmaker that I’ve talked to understands the value of care at home. Typically, when we hear about value, it’s about saving money for payers and Medicare.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life. In 2010, the U.S.

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Traditions Health

AUGUST 7, 2023

At its core, home health care is simply a way for us to help people stay safely in their home while managing their health. Who pays for home health? Medicare, Medicare Advantage, VA, and most private insurance plans cover eligible home health services. How do you get started?

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

President and the first known President to utilize the Medicare Hospice Benefit. While in office, the Carter administration tested hospice care as a model, which later led to the Medicare Hospice Benefit we know today. At 99, former President Jimmy Carter is the longest living U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. Spano: There’s roughly 52 Medicare Advantage plans that have a VBID offering that covers approximately 10 million American lives today.

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Melodia Hospice

JUNE 9, 2023

Continuous Care, one of four hospice care options covered by Medicare, is for terminally ill patients. This 24/7 emergency therapy is supplied to the patient’s home for a limited duration. It respects a patient’s decision to stay home by treating the crisis and managing symptoms.

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Traditions Health

MARCH 18, 2024

Factors that affect hospital readmission More at risk for readmission when there are so many new considerations around their care at home, it’s important we rally around newly discharged patients to better prepare them—and to help them—in their first several weeks back at home.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

That setting has had the greatest impact on my mind and heart, but my experiences in home-based primary care, hospice in the home, skilled care and long-term custodial care have enabled me to further develop my professional skillset. What is age-friendly care, and why is it important now?

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2022

It’s important for patients and families who need that level of care to receive it, and many times these for-profit hospices don’t offer all four levels of inpatient, respite, routine and continuous care at home. We’re competing to try and ensure these patients and families have a good program.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 28, 2022

This means that hospice care teams work to manage pain and other symptoms so that patients can enjoy their remaining time as much as possible. In addition, hospice care teams provide emotional and spiritual support to both patients and their families. Hospice care is covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

If you think about that in terms of the elderly population and the population that’s up and coming, with the disability, chronic illness, and serious illness that affects them, there’s definitely going to be a huge need for palliative care. We have 10,000 Americans becoming Medicare-eligible per day.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Initiatives like these allow health systems the opportunity to not only capitalize on growing demand, but also to address a more comprehensive range of their patients’ health needs in the setting that most prefer, according to Angel Vargas, vice president of Care at Home for Kaiser Permanente. billion in 2021.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Will you explore the materials provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)? This allows them to compare outcomes for patients receiving care in a rehab facility with outcomes for the same type of patient receiving care at home with home health. . What is new? What has changed?

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. We spoke earlier about Medicare Advantage.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

While this is great news, the average care staff turnover rate has stayed at a steady 65% for 3 years in a row. The care at home industry is also the only environment where long-term care providers are expected to deliver care to all their patients between the hours of 9 a.m.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

Anna Loengard to discuss the ways the company has evolved since the merger, including clinical innovation, new approaches to hospice general inpatient care and its growing acute-care-at-home business. AccentCare AccentCare AccentCare Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anna Loengard. It actually has a number of different purposes.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

Recently, this included efforts related to program integrity within the Medicare Hospice Benefit. All options are on the table, provided they strengthen the voice of hospice and health care at home.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 17, 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , for instance, announced a new strategy to add flexibility to the U.S. heal th-care system outside traditional hospital settings. C linics can learn best practices from providers such as O ption Care Health.)

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of Int Med. Would you accept?”

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