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. 31, 2021, according to a new CMMI white paper. To date, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

Recent allegations that staff at HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) put pressure on patients to enter hospice dovetail with longstanding questions over how and when patients should be referred. Source: SEIU) HCA Healthcare is among the nation’s largest hospital systems, which employs more than 294,000 people, including 45,000 physicians.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation have been in communication with lawmakers in hopes of keeping the funds within the hospice program. “We for next year.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 2.6% To continue providing the high level of care our patients and their families deserve, hospices require a payment rate that accurately reflects the current economic challenges. We know that hospice care has demonstrated $3.5 Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 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! Frontpoint Health has completed its acquisition of the Texas-based home health and hospice company High Plains Senior Care Group (HPSC).

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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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NHPCO

MARCH 11, 2024

For Immediate Release March 7, 2024 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and its We Honor Veterans (WHV) program responded to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) clarification on concurrent care eligibility for Veteran beneficiaries.

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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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NHPCO

JULY 28, 2023

For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. billion in Medicare savings in 2019, while also providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. billion less than it would have been had they not received hospice care.

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NHPCO

MARCH 21, 2023

For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 billion in savings for Medicare in 2019, while providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. Hospice stays of six months or more result in savings for Medicare.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

” Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address this issue, providing 34 recommendations. “There are people who are running hospitals programs that are only theoretical.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

After a moratorium during the pandemic, Medicare sequestration resumed July 1. Hospice and other health care providers are once again seeing their Medicare payments slashed by 2% across the board. If [the government] wanted to ensure access to care, this isn’t helping,” Beckwith told Hospice News. It included a 2.7%

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Hospice News

MARCH 30, 2023

Ohio’s Hospice is deepening its relationship with United Church Homes (UCH) to expand hospice and palliative care options for the senior living and support services organization’s residents. The UCH partnership will also include Pure Healthcare, the palliative care and supportive services arm of Ohio’s Hospice, established in 2020.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Though older Asian-American adults may be less likely to discuss pain and symptom management needs with their health care professionals, they may be more receptive to the psychosocial support included in hospice and palliative care, according to recent research from VITAS’ Healthcare. between 2010 and 2019. They represent 1.8%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), asking for the agency to brief them on fraud and abuse within the hospice benefit. Hospice can be an important part of a patient’s care, but only if it is operating as intended,” the legislators wrote in the letter. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of life care. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today we have the honor of interviewing Susan Block, MD, one of the pioneering leaders in the fields of palliative care, particularly psychosocial aspects of palliative care. And man, I still remember those sessions, some of the most powerful learning experiences of my career as a palliative care doctor. Susan: I do.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. Signatories on the joint letter included Leading Age, 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). “We

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Concern is mounting around whether current health equity initiatives will be a flash in the pan or yield long term improvement on reducing disparities in hospice care among communities of color. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). NYSE: CHE). Effective Jan.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

A federal court has sentenced Liana Karapetyan, former co-owner of California-based ANG Health Care, Excel Hospice, and Excel Home Healthcare, to 18 years in prison for hospice fraud and anti-kickback violations. Based on those claims, Medicare paid the agencies approximately $31 million,” the U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

About 72% of respondents to a National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) survey said they do not believe that the U.S. health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population. We know that only about 51% Medicare beneficiaries in any given year are utilizing hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider has since expanded its geographic reach across the Southeast region to include Georgia.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.”. “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses. The case study analyzed results from Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (CAHPS) surveys and the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

In this Voices article, Josie Aquino, Director, Product Management, VNS Health talks about how VNS Health is using data and analytics to improve end-of-life care. Additionally, she discusses VNS’s outcomes-driven approach to end-of-life care, and how they are helping other organizations employ a similar approach.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Though nonprofit hospices now represent a smaller slice of the industry than in years past, they continue to care for more than half of patients in the United States who elect the benefit. The number of hospices operating nationwide rose to 5,3,58 in 2021, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

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NHPCO

JANUARY 12, 2024

On the other hand, NHPCO is disappointed by MedPAC’s recommendation to Congress that hospice reimbursement rates for patient care should not be updated in 2025, although by law hospice payment rates are pegged to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) inpatient hospital market basket rate.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their frontline experience provides invaluable insights into patient care, workflow efficiency and the overall functioning of our healthcare system. This entails closer integration with palliative care and innovative payment models that allow for holistic, end-of-life care.

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Healthcare Law Insights podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Medicare hospice benefit, we stand at an important reflection point to evaluate end-of-life care and map its future. Janet has devoted the second half of her medical career to end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

Hospices have relied on data to enhances their ability to assess the quality and quantity of bedside care delivered during a patients’ final days. This includes two key quality measures: Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life (HVLDL) and the Hospice Care Index (HCI).

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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

MAY 26, 2022

Iowa in 2018 ranked seventh for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents at 56.2%, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Like in much of the country, aging demographics are driving up demand for end-of-life care in the Hawkeye State. Utah held the highest rate that year at 60.5%.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Contributing to these declines were constraints on clinical capacity stemming from the labor shortage, as well as some instances of lower reimbursement for its home health services due to the shift of more patients towards Medicare Advantage, executives said in an earnings call. NYSE: CHEM) VITAS Healthcare. “So

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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. We are here for patient care. End-of-life care grew out of a great American crusade for social change.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Stakeholders in end-of-life and serious illness care are urging payers to develop a national standardized quality assessment tool for hospices to bridge gaps in health equity. Senior care association LeadingAge recently penned a letter to the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

Chemed Corporation (NYSE: CHEM) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare recently named Laury Bliss as its new vice president of operations in southern California. In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recently finalized hospice payment rule. It is [also] really important that quality data is collected so that patients and families can make informed choices about their care.”

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