Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In a fractious political environment, hospice and palliative care policy is one area in which members of both parties find common ground. Aside from building better career pathways for clinicians, another “big picture” focus for legislators is to develop a payment model dedicated to palliative care, Thompson stated.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oncology nurses at cancer centers across the country are developing ways to improve palliative care referrals for seriously ill patients and families who could benefit from these services. A common thread woven through these referral strategies is expanding palliative care awareness among clinicians across the continuum.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Though revenue streams for palliative care are often shallow, these services can generate sustainable growth for providers who can play their cards right with payers. When it comes to palliative care, billing teams need to have a firm grasp on the different levels of codes to apply when submitting claims, she continued.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

The channels for palliative care payment may be widening as more state legislators recognize growing demand for these services and start to weave them into Medicaid reimbursement. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine and Oregon each have established Medicaid reimbursement for community-based palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Two barriers interfere with palliative care growth — identifying patients in need and a fragmented reimbursement system, according to Laura Templeton, COO and executive vice president at Compassus. As a nurse, Templeton has leveraged her clinical experiences to help navigate challenges that prevent patients from accessing care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

Patients are more likely to create an advance care plan if they receive nurse-led palliative care services versus those who had standard care alone. About 45% of the palliative care patients said they had a goals-of-care conversation, compared to nearly 15% of the control group, the study found.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum. An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. Palliative care and hospice share some common goals with hospice.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

With this agreement, patients at Family of Caring’s Park Ridge, New Jersey, campus will be able to receive care from Valley Health’s palliative care teams. “We Valley Health currently offers palliative care in a number of settings, including inpatient, outpatient, subacute medical facilities and the home.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2023

A new cancer-focused payment model demonstration from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) could create opportunities for palliative care providers. And they also are required to have care partners that can meet holistic needs. That’s another CMMI program that has an obvious palliative care tie-in.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

Though the model is focused on primary care, it could help more patients receive hospice and palliative care when appropriate, according to CMS. The PPCPs will also provide funds for care management, patient navigation, behavioral health integration and other care coordination services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

This article is based on a Palliative Care News discussion with Deanna Heath, Senior Vice President of customer experience at KanTime, Jared King, Vice President of business development and sales at Hospice Dynamix and Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime. Can palliative care function without numerous systems?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aetna, a subsidiary of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), is leveraging a series of new benefits that, coupled with existing palliative care programs and ongoing hospice payment demonstrations, promise to keep patients in their homes and out of facilities. Patients can access palliative care through a number of inroads.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

is launching a pediatric palliative care professional training program at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center (OUHSC). Founded roughly 40 years ago, the Children’s Health Foundation is the fundraising arm of the University of Oklahoma’s pediatric palliative care team and associated researchers.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Oncology practices have increasingly collaborated with palliative care providers — or built their own service lines — to better support cancer patients throughout their health care journeys. Integrating palliative care deeper into oncology practices “empowers” these providers to improve utilization and quality, she indicated.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

The Delaware Valley Accountable Care Organization (ACO) has leveraged a comprehensive, community-based palliative care program developed by its partner Main Line Health to reduce costs of care by $9,000 per eligible patient. The key to this was the anticipated reductions in the total cost of care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Partners In Care has formed a strategic partnership with the primary and urgent care provider Summit Health aimed at increasing access to palliative care in Central Oregon. Beginning this July, Summit Health patients will have access to palliative care consultations and expanded services through the partnership. .

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Demand for serious illness care soared during the outbreak boosted palliative care awareness and putt a greater emphasis on the value that these services can bring to seriously ill patients and families, according to Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) CEO Brynn Bowman.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

The creation and subsequent partnership with Radiant Alliance will bring a hospice and palliative care company and senior living operator under the auspices of a payer. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare. We are the first to actually do it.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Palliative care and hospice providers are enhancing their staff education programs in an effort to better ensure they have a sustainable workforce. More millennials are enter the health care workforce as more baby boomers retire. Care Dimensions is also leveraging educational initiatives in their recruitment and staffing plansf.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

The HAP Foundation is partnering with the Child Life Hospice and Palliative Network (CLHPN) to improve awareness of and access to child life services among seriously ill youths and their families. The HAP Foundation helps support research and education in hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Organizations that are delivering hospice and palliative care now are looking to the future and wanting to provide more of a full-service solution for seriously ill patients,” Singleton told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Texas-based Midland Health recently opened a new inpatient palliative care center aimed at improving access and quality outcomes among seriously ill patients and their families. Dubbed the Center for Serious Illness and Supportive Care, the facility will be based at the health system’s Midland Memorial Hospital.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

A new primary care-focused payment model demonstration could create new partnership opportunities for hospice and palliative care providers. The agency intends for the 10-year demo to expand and enhance care management and care coordination.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

For Center to Advance Palliative Care’s CEO Brynn Bowman, palliative care represents a fundamental shift in health care delivery as it continues to grow and make an impact on facilities and patients. health care workforce with the skills necessary to care for seriously ill patients and their families.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

CareMore, also an Elevance subsidiary, provides advanced primary care to more than 100,000 Medicare Advantage and Medicaid patients in nine states, as well as offering palliative care. Through prevention, intervention, and focused care coordination, we help improve health outcomes and lower costs.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

The palliative care field is in the midst of evolution, with reimbursement and workforce dynamics being the dominant forces influencing sustainable growth in the space. These streams flow directly into their ability to recruit and retain sufficient volumes of interdisciplinary staff trained in providing specialized palliative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The company’s mobile health care clinicians integrate virtual visits with primary, hospice and palliative care services to assess patients’ needs in the home to reduce emergency and urgent care utilization and associated costs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The ability to monitor and educate staff on their roles and responsibilities in compliance will be a key for hospice sustainability and quality heading into 2024, Piland said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] believes that primary care is going to be the answer to this fragmented care problem. Primary care is where it’s at.” Alivia Care came into existence in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

As of 2020, those individuals represented only about 10% of Medicare decedents who elected hospice, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Kristen Schaefer, vice president and associate chief medical officer at Care Dimensions, indicated. Recently, the Chemed Corp.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Empath’s business lines include hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. We exercise; we do all kinds of fun things.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

During the program’s first year in 2021, 9,630 MA beneficiaries received hospice care through the VBID demo, and 525 utilized the program’s supplemental benefits, according to a report the RAND Corporation prepared for CMS. Among those benefits is palliative care.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care. By addressing these dimensions, clinicians enhance the quality of care and the overall well-being of patients.

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