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M&A Volume May Shift From Hospice to Home Health

Hospice News

In the hospice and home health arena, what we are seeing is that there’s a little bit of a tilt to home health now over hospice, but you still have the private equity firms that have a very hospice heavy thesis, and they’re in their thought process.

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NAHC President Dombi: Hospices Face Stricter Oversight in 2023

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be implementing a revised compliance survey process and has convened a Technical Expert Panel to develop a hospice Special Focus Program. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) will conduct a national audit for patient eligibility.

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Hospices that Excel During COVID More Attractive to Buyers

Hospice News

Deal volume is definitely down this year over the past few record-setting years. It’s down a bit by about 10% – 11% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2021 as some of the investor focus shifts to home health. There was definitely a perfect storm the past couple years with hospice.

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Hospice News ELEVATE : Fireside Chat with Netsmart

Hospice News

HSPN: Can you talk a little bit about what kind of disruption could occur in the hospice industry, as a result of Medicare Advantage? Warren: I know many of you in the audience have home health organizations, you see the challenges that home health organizations face, from an M&A disruption. Are you not?

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Why Your OASIS Assessment Nursing Note Sucks and How to Write Them Better

The Productive Home Health Nurse

It took me 2 long months to get an understanding of the OASIS nursing note and another 2 weeks or so before I figured out how to speak the “Medicare language”. A lot of what goes into writing your OASIS nursing note that speaks to Medicare and gets you paid is the FOUNDATION and road map. I know exactly how that feels!

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Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth

Home Care Pulse

And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And then if you think underneath that, there’s Medicare certified home health, palliative, and hospice, that really kind of sits in the home.

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Ep.3: How to Prepare Your Staff For OASIS-E Upgrades

Home Care Pulse

So it’s funny, like explaining what Oasis E is to someone who doesn’t understand home health gets really tricky, but in just making notes, like for this podcast, I kind of keyed the term, the data document. And if you work in home health, you know, that book backwards and forwards. That’s a lot of pages.

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