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. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in will be carved back out by the end of this year. Citing “operational challenges,” the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) auditing processes, a coalition of industry organizations indicated in a letter to the agency. We share the Administration’s goal of ensuring quality hospice care. The post Hospice Industry Groups: CMS Must Reform Auditing Processes appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The four largest hospice industry organizations have been working to present a united front to address widespread program integrity issues. Many of these hospices were also setting up shop, providing substandard care to a few patients and then selling off the license before regulators caught wind of it. This prompted the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

Palliative care providers have a limited window into the disparities plaguing underserved populations when it comes to access and awareness of their serious illness care options, according to Nicole McCann-Davis, vice president of communications and chief health equity officer at Empassion Health.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Startups such as Empathy, Betterleave Bereavement Care, Grief Refuge and Help Texts (formerly Grief Coach) have launched platforms designed to help families cope and assist with tasks such as funeral planning, account cancellations, legalities and financial arrangements. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

Highlighting measures in the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP), for example, can give new and inexperienced staff a better grasp on the types of experiences they’ll be facilitating for patients and families, Ruppert explained. This includes the possibility of new health equity-related measures.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

SEIU analyzed Medicare claims data showing that the average hospice transfer rate among HCA hospital discharges was nearly 40% above the national average in 2021 and represented a 50% growth rate over four years. For one, hospice utilization has been on a steady upswing nationally for several years. told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

billion Medicare Advantage (MA) organization that covers more than 270,000 members. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Don Berwick. There, Jain helped establish the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), which is charged with development and testing of value-based payment models.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

“When the [hopital] patient is discharged, thosewho have instructions to seek hospice are making up a greater percentage of that pool,” Bakkun told Hospice News. And that means that the the knowledge and awareness of hospice care is growing.”. But this is definitely still not the norm.”. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The possibility exists that hospice care will change more in the next few years than it has during the previous four decades. The Medicare Hospice Benefit turned 40-years-old in 2022, and in that time the program has remained fundamentally unchanged. Much of the debate has centered around regulation.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

But in time, her drive to improve patients’ quality of life led her to the hospice and palliative care fields. Templeton now is a hospice physician consultant at Weatherbee Resources as well as medical director for Texas-based Hendrick Hospice Care. What qualities or characteristics would such a person possess?

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

NYSE: HUM) has signed a definitive agreement to sell a 60% stake in Kindred at Home’s (KAH) hospice and personal care business to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR) for $2.8 The company attributed this primarily to growth in its Medicare Advantage business and state contracts membership.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Trinity Health has completed its acquisition of MercyOne Health, expanding its hospice footprint in Iowa. Trinity Health in April signed a definitive agreement with CommonSpirit Health to acquire MercyOne. Earlier this year Trinity Health acquired Iowa-based Above & Beyond Home Health Care and Hospice for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. What drew you to the hospice industry? I definitely would not be where I’m at today without my family. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Early on I knew I wanted to work in health care and needed a career in which I could find meaning and purpose. A new reimbursement structure for palliative care.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

Control of these assets also allows payer organizations to better manage the financial risks that come with the value-based payment models that many expect will overtake traditional Medicare in coming years. The full impact of these deals will take shape over the next few years.

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NHPCO

JULY 25, 2023

These program integrity efforts include: Revocation of Medicare enrollment: CMS has identified fraud schemes and increased its operational ability to revoke Medicare enrollment more quickly. Organizational Deactivation: CMS proposes to revoke Medicare certification if a provider has not billed any claims within six months.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. Ann, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Hunt, who is a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Researcher, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at UCSF. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special.

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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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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Strong performance on the Hospice Care Index is becoming increasingly essential to securing payer and referral contracts and will be a key consideration in the federal government’s forthcoming Special Focus Program (SFP). The Hospice Care Index can be a referral driver. You definitely do not want to be at that bottom 10%.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Hayden Jordan, director of palliative care for senior care provider PruittHealth Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. . The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

Hospice of the Midwest’s services within the Marshalltown community include assistance with medical equipment and medication order and delivery, developing patient care plans, providing home assessment consultations and a veteran honors program. has launched a new inpatient hospice facility.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Hospice News recently sat down with Ben Marcantonio, chief operating officer and interim president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), to discuss how hospice providers are navigating a sea of challenges. We agreed I’d be capable of helping in this transitional period.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Though operators often feel siloed within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, they are not shielded from the shifting currents in the health care system at large. Deal volume for behavioral health increased 33% in 2021, Hospice News’ sister site Behavioral Health Business reported.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

What is our role as hospice and palliative care providers in advocating for high-quality hospice care? If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms.

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2022

She’s worked in hospice and palliative care for more than 20 years. Christopher’s Hospice as a nursing pioneer for their palliative care nursing project. So what standards can do is provide a little more definition to what is supposed to happen. Jennifer has quite the impressive resume.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There are things that I think CMS can look at and fix and do it fairly quickly that would alleviate some of the burden that’s put on these hospice providers. The net of it is that the folks that are running hospice and palliative care, they have so much on their plate regulatory-wise. Things like complex wound care.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I think there’s definitely a stigma that, like you said, we just all wanna be fixers and we almost don’t wanna take advantage of that, that thought that, oh, the things I did weren’t enough, or I, I wasn’t able to to really fix that person. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Advocate for the CONNECT for Health Act, which would permanently expand access to telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries: [link] Much more on this podcast, including puzzling out who the characters in Space Oddity by David Bowie might represent in an extended analogy to telehealth. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Joe: Great to be here.

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