Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As hospices nationwide develop new services to engage patients further upstream, some are rebranding to reflect their expanded scope and to avoid the word “hospice” in their company names, hoping to ameliorate patients’ anxiety about end-of-life care. Branding really plays all those roles when done well.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

CONs have a big role to play when it comes to quality and utilization, according to Susan Ponder-Stansel, president and CEO of Florida-based Alivia Care. Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Today’s podcast tackles these issues and more with three amazing guests: Katie Jones, Jessica Merlin, and Devon Check. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A group of health plans, policymakers, and insurance companies recently told the Center for Medicare & Medicare Innovation (CMMI) that they needed a standardized definition for palliative care in order to improve access. First, it’s not just one provider who is delivering palliative care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2024

If we’re going to have operating costs that allow us to provide this level of incredible care, it is the side of business that we have to pay attention to,” Wingard said. By the Bay Health is in the process of completing a triple merger with two other hospices — Mission Hospice & Home Care and Hope Hospice.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Patients that participated were individuals receiving palliative care at the Shatin Hospital in Hong Kong, Japan, with different types of lung, breast, rectum and prostate cancers. Half of the participants received VR relaxation therapy, while others received standard-of-care coaching for their palliative symptoms.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

Palliative care providers are problem solvers, and keeping that perspective in mind can help them design programs and build payer relationships more effectively, experts told Palliative Care News. On the other, patients who receive palliative care from different providers may be getting a disparate set of services.

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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. In many companies, a changing of the guard is underway.s

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Specialty palliative care reduces pain severity in most adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, but work remains to reduce other symptoms, a recent study found. The more severe the reported symptoms, the more likely they were to receive care. Toward the end of life, the weight of symptoms grows heavier for AYAs with cancer.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Palliative care is an evolving field. Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. Rising demand In 2024, demand will continue to rise, driven by a number of factors. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The trouble is that many hospices lack the staff they need to build relationships with family caregivers further upstream in a patient’s illness trajectory, leaving them with fewer insights around their health care options, Swig stated. Acadian Health focuses on trauma-informed, patient-centered care through the lens of quality.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. The home health and hospice provider also offers palliative care, as well as chronic disease management services for seniors.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many seniors have experienced some form of trauma or abuse in their lifetime, which can carry impacts for those both delivering and receiving hospice care. More data has become available in recent years around the prevalence and different types of abuse and trauma on global and national scales.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Onboarding processes have an important role in preparing hospice clinicians for the nuances of providing end-of-life care. Employee feedback has most commonly centered around the importance of understanding the nature of hospice care and the interdisciplinary components involved, Psaras stated. NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Home health care providers are increasingly recognizing the clinical value of palliative care, despite its tricky payer landscape and relatively low margins. based NHPCO is the largest membership organization for hospice and palliative care providers. Oftentimes, palliative care is conflated with hospice care services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

Horn Prsic is a medical oncologist and palliative care physician. She serves as the director of adult inpatient palliative care at the Yale School of Medicine in Connecticut. It’s this double aim of having an excellent, well-oiled machine of care with those on the inpatient side and working very closely together.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One is value-based payment models, coupled with the entry of new types of organizations in the home-based care space and the rise of more educated, health-literate consumers. A lot of new organizations are getting started with delivering care in the home in some manner. Several forces are driving the change.

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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? How do you get there?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

State medical facilities plans (SMFPs) are programs built into CON processes that focus on expanding health care services among populations with specific unmet needs. This can include end-of-life and serious illness care among minority groups with various physical, socio-economic, spiritual and cultural needs.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Prior to his role at Transcend, he was senior vice president of marketing and communications for AccentCare, which merged with Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2021. And the difference between the two is largely in behind-the-scenes logistics.” This internal legwork is not a simple, cosmetic process.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

John Mulder, chief consultant for hospice and palliative care medicine for Michigan’s Faith Hospice, was drawn to the field after witnessing his father’s difficult end-of-life experience. The world of health care is rapidly changing around us. I believe that health care is a right, for every individual who lives in this country.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The nation’s four largest hospice industry organizations — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) — in late 2023 conducted a 133-respondent provider survey focused on regulation.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The complexity of weaving together the hospice care model and MA payment systems could be impacting participation, according to Fred Bentley, managing director for ATI Advisory’s Medicare Innovation Team. Launched in 2017, the VBID demonstration is testing new approaches to reimbursement across a variety of health care settings.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 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! If enacted, it would create tax credits to help offset the financial burdens of caring for the seriously ill. Meanwhile, U.S.

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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. Case in point, New Jersey legislators are currently mulling a bill that would create a community-based palliative care benefit within the state’s Medicaid program.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The topics range from unmet staff and patient needs, financial and operational headwinds and research fueling innovative care delivery approaches. This article explored the emerging strategies in palliative care that could have promising impacts on strengthening this workforce, including education and technology initiatives.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Breast cancer patients often lack access to palliative care services, but the needle may be moving as researchers dig into common barriers and clinical and financial outcomes. A recent study of nearly 30,000 hospitalized metastatic breast cancer patients found that only 19% received palliative care from 2010 to 2014.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Palliative care has been one of the largest growing segments of the health care industry in the last decade despite challenges such as staffing shortages, reimbursement headaches and misconceptions regarding this type of care. million people need palliative care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

The scope of palliative care is broadening across the nation, but a lack of sufficient payment mechanisms is curbing growth. Calls have grown louder for a federally established community-based palliative care benefit as demand rises among swelling aging populations with a range of serious illnesses. NYSE: CHE) subsidiary.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

There is scrutiny on hospice care [that’s] setting the stage for the next phase of what hospice oversight looks like. It’s ensuring that it’s appropriate oversight for bad actors and lands in a good place for the rest of those providing care in good faith. Hospice providers have seen an array of increased regulatory oversight in 2023.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Similarly Jessica Zitter, an intensivist and palliative care doctor analogized the inevitable clinical momentum toward highly aggressive intensive care in US hospitals as a conveyor belt. Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hospices and Accountable Care Organizations have the ability to customize payment contracts within the Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) program. When we pay claims in lieu of Medicare, we pay the provider that cares for one of our affiliated patients. Effective Jan. 1, 2023, the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Palliative care education programs are gaining speed regionally, leading some to hope for a “domino effect” that would spur further growth. Without widespread change, demand for palliative care in the United States is projected to outstrip the supply of the clinicians trained to provide it during the next decade.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

Barriers to expanding pediatric inpatient hospice care include a lack of specialized facilities as well as staff who are sufficiently trained to provide those services. Children are an underserved population in the hospice realm, particularly when it comes to inpatient care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Note, CMS is not seeking a change to the definition of palliative care but rather should CMS consider defining palliative services with regard to high-cost treatments? Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Dialysis is a good example.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

A growing number of patients with various dementia-related conditions will need end-of-life care in coming years. Many of these patients could benefit from receiving hospice care sooner and longer, but regulatory requirements can make that a challenging feat for providers, she said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

The nation’s total health care spend is expected to swell by 5.4% Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary also project that health care expenditures will represent 19.6% We do not have projections at the level of detail of hospice-specific care for all payers for the NHE accounts.”

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