Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has recommended to Congress a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2026. The 2021 aggregated Medicare hospice margin was 10.4%, according to MedPAC. Hospital-based and home health-based hospices have access to capital through their parent providers. More than 1.7

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Investigations have shown that potentially hundreds of newly licensed hospices have bilked Medicare of millions of dollars during the past several years, all while providing egregiously poor care or none at all. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2024 home health rule, the SFP is set for 2025 implementation.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Fraudsters misspend millions of Medicare dollars annually, though the actual hospice-specific amounts are difficult to determine, regulators previously told Hospice News. In the end, Medicare fraud costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year. Each dollar lost to fraud takes away resources intended for people with Medicare.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made public its first cohort for the hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). Finalized in the 2024 home health payment rule, the program is designed to identify poor performing hospices, mandate quality improvement and in some cases impose additional penalties.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Hospices flagged by the SFP also will be surveyed every six months rather than the current three-year cycle and could face monetary penalties or expulsion from the Medicare program. When it comes to end-of-life care, you only have one chance to get it right,” Van Duyne said in a statement emailed to Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS)] efforts there. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. It’s slow.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

Keeping patients at home prevents costly hospitalizations and reduces strain on the health care system. Today, in a time of financial and workforce challenges, we should be expanding access to care at home, not cutting it. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The research examined Medicare hospice beneficiary data including timely start of care following patient admission, disenrollment and live discharge rates, volume of patient visits, length of stay and billing claim amounts. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Care Compare site.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

As a result of that and because I knew that this is part of my mission, I decided to advocate for representation, to advocate for closing that utilization gap among underserved communities and to advocate for challenging the stigma of care at home. You cant just pick up a model of care and drop it into a different city or region.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Hospice utilization reached 43.77% among Medicare decedents in Hawaii during 2022, according to a report from the National Alliance for Care at Home. Together, organizations in the Hawaii Palliative and Hospice Care Collaborative serve thousands of patients annually. This fell below the national average of 49.1%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The telemedicine extension reflects a growing recognition of the critical role telehealth plays in ensuring timely access to care, particularly in the hospice setting, said Madison Summers, public affairs professional at the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance). It also includes some exceptions.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Dallas-based home health and hospice provider Intrepid USA Healthcare Services’ geographic footprint spans 66 locations in 14 states. Intrepid has two locations in Beaumont, Texas, where the company provides home-based hospice, palliative and supportive care services. Seniors 65 and older represent 18.4% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The hospital in September announced that it would be closing its home health and hospice services as of Dec. Close to 18,000 Medicare decedents in Kansas elected the hospice benefit in 2022, a rate of nearly 52%, which exceeded national averages that year, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

More than 16,000 people elected the hospice benefit in 2022, about 46% of the state’s Medicare decedents that year, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. About 17.4% of Nevada’s 3.1 million population are older than 65, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

This is a rise from Medicare hospice expenditures that reached $23.7 billion in 2022, Medicare (MedPAC) reported. in 2022, the National Alliance for Care at Home reported. Hospice care was found to save Medicare approximately $3.5 million Medicare beneficiaries, CMS reported.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents reached 52.23% in Texas during 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. New Day launched in 2020, led by a group of former hospice and home health professionals. Seniors 65 and older represent 13.8% of the states overall population, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents 52.23% in Texas in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. New Day Healthcare provides hospice, home heath, pediatrics, clinical decision support and personal care to more than 150,000 patients annually from 33 locations across Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Illinois.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2022

One is how can we continue to diversify our services and help more people in more ways — and second, looking at how we can reduce our dependence on Medicare reimbursement. Why is it important to reduce that dependence on Medicare reimbursement? It’s hospice, palliative medicine, primary care at home, and our grief support.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents 52.23% in Texas in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. We found the best partner for Christian Senior Care Services to work with moving forward, said Quintin Faison, founder of Christian Senior Care Services, in a statement. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

This includes ensuring that the hospice SFP measures focus solely on compliance with the Medicare Hospice Conditions of Participation. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are inconsistent with what Congress required when it passed legislation requiring the SFP. Foremost, they argue that the data U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

White Medicare decedents have long represented the vast majority of individuals utilizing the hospice benefit, though other racial and ethnic groups have seen improvement. among Hispanic populations in 2022, the largest increase across all minority groups that year, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) has introduced the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, which, if enacted, could revolutionize the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Hospice News photo by Merz Photography. The Alliance shares Rep.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

was essential to the establishment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit in 1983. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) demonstration project to test the model, leading to passage of a law establishing the benefit during the subsequent Reagan presidency. Regardless of length of stay, hospice saves Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Enforcement actions could include expulsion from the Medicare program, as well as other penalties. Good hospice care, because of its holistic, patient- and family-centered compassionate approach to the dying, is a godsend, Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of LeadingAge said in a statement emailed to Hospice News.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2024

We will ensure that health care at home continues to evolve as an integral and vital partner in the continuum of care in America.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) officials. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

More than 27,550 Medicare decedents elected the hospice benefit in 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. Census Bureau estimates that nearly 25% of Louisiana’ population will be older than 60 by the year 2030, up more than 25% from 2012. This is a rate of 48.2%.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

This is according to Scott Levy, chief government affairs officer at National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] and Congress. Levy stepped into the role earlier this year after holding a similar position at Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The cap is designed to prevent overuse of hospice, put controls on Medicare spending and foster greater access to care among patients. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services set the cap at $33,394. If a hospice has a cap liability, they will have to repay that amount to Medicare. For Fiscal Year 2024, the U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2024

More than 57,100 Medicare decedents elected the hospice benefit in South Carolina during 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. About 25% of South Carolinas population are seniors older than 65, a number expected to double within the next 25 years, according to the states Department of Aging.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Palliative care’s service, payment propositions Palliative care programs vary widely across the nation, Susan Ponder-Stansel, president and CEO of Florida-based Alivia Care Inc., said at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

More than 16,000 people elected the hospice benefit in 2022, about 46% of the states Medicare decedents that year, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. About 17.4% of Nevadas 3.1 million population are older than 65, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Transforming hospice policy The Medicare Hospice Benefit has remained largely unchanged since its establishment in 1983. Nearly half (49.1%) of all Medicare descendants utilized hospice services in 2022, which was a similar rate to prior years, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. this summer.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“For hospice services specifically, an aging population, along with better informed family members about the positive aspects of hospice care, along with an increased dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, are all drivers of these crucial services,” he said. Among Medicare beneficiaries, 45,760 elected the hospice benefit in 2022.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

31, these flexibilities allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually and conduct face-to-face recertification visits. The National Alliance for Care at Home spearheaded the effort. Currently set to expire Dec.

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