Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

While hospice and home health M&A continue to burgeon, non-medical home care is starting to slip out from under their shadows. Deal volume for non-medical home care companies outstripped that for hospice or home health during the first half of the year. The case for non-medical home care investment.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The home health and hospice provider is part of the home care service line of Uintah Basin Healthcare. We are confident that Canyon Home Care & Hospice will offer exemplary, compassionate care,” Uintah Basin Healthcare President and CEO Jim Marshall said in an announcement.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Many families make home-based care decisions around a dining room table. So it may be fitting that the founders of New Day Healthcare crafted a vision for their company around the table in CEO Scott Herman’s Texas home. New Day Healthcare CEO Scott Herman In the past you’ve discussed your “burn the ships” strategy.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Providers of those services and the patients they care for can really benefit from a model of advanced illness care well before the final moments.

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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. for next year.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized its 2024 home health rule, including the implementation of a hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). The requirement mirrors a regulation that has existed for several years for home health agencies.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Employment in the home-based care sector rose above pre-pandemic levels in 2023, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Department of Commerce defines this sector to include hospices, home health agencies, private duty, pediatric agencies and other providers of care in the home.

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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

MARCH 29, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 2.6% We know that hospice care has demonstrated $3.5 billion in annual savings for Medicare, which underscores the critical importance of investing in hospice to ensure continued beneficiary access to quality end-of-life care.”

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AlayaCare

JUNE 16, 2022

What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 Organizations in the business of delivering care that is prepared for this shift will be the same ones that thrive in a new marketplace.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 17, 2022

What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 The transition to a value-based care delivery model is projected to benefit patients, providers, payers, vendors, and society as a whole.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) floated the possibility of a combination in March in light of their existing, highly collaborative working relationship.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2025 hospice rule is finalized as written, hospices may encounter some hurdles implementing some of the new requirements. These included NAHC, NHPCO, LeadingAge and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). If the U.S. The proposal called for a 2.6%

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

These annual adjustments have their roots in the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act), which changed the way the hospice aggregate payment cap is calculated. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been working to implement since 2022. for next year.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

When it comes to best in class home care software , the home care industry is often mired in antiquated legacy solutions. Achieving a true interoperability for your home care system may seem like a daunting task, but there is a tool that can help: Application Programming Interfaces or APIs.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When it comes to best in class home care software , the home care industry is often mired in antiquated legacy solutions. Achieving a true interoperability for your home care system may seem like a daunting task, but there is a tool that can help: Application Programming Interfaces or APIs.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 59 bipartisan co-sponsors have reintroduced legislation that would expand Medicare coverage of telehealth and make permanent flexibilities implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The waiver pertaining to routine home care, which ended with the PHE on May 11, was not mentioned in the bill text.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) forthcoming Special Focus Program (SFP) for hospices. The TEP completed its work late last year, and now, per the 2024 proposed home health rule, the agency wants to move ahead with it in 2024. A coalition of industry groups has spoken out about the design of the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

More access to care is critical,” Alex Mauricio, CEO of Bristol Hospice, told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 conference. “I I think providers need to come together and figure out how we continue to attract more talent to the health care space, how we partner with schools, how we partner with each other.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

The nation’s total health care spend is expected to swell by 5.4% Meanwhile, Medicare hospice spending is expected to more than double by 2032. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary also project that health care expenditures will represent 19.6% These data from the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Two of the largest advocacy groups for the home health and hospice industries are one step closer to joining forces. With decades of experience in hospice and home care, NHPCO and NAHC members are the long-standing experts, and they are evolving to meet patient needs in a shifting environment.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The national average hourly rate for Hospice registered nurses rose 4.58% in 2023, down from a 5.95% increase in 2022, according to a new report by the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As those problems proliferate, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), LeadingAge and the National Partnership for Hospice and Healthcare Innovation (NPHI) have been speaking out not only individually, but collectively.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2022

As the hospice community takes its first steps into value-based reimbursement, stakeholders have an opportunity to re-examine elements of the Medicare Hospice Benefit that may be outdated, according to some providers. The hospice benefit became a formal part of Medicare in 1983. Initially, the U.S.

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Community Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2022

Yet, caring for an aging loved one demands significant amounts of energy, and often brings on heightened stresses. Research on the topic of aging in place has shown that older adults who live at home enjoy various benefits that would otherwise be inaccessible to them if they would transfer to a facility. Companionship.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Hospices are seeking greater clarity on updated Medicare rules that allow hospices to document a broader range of chaplain services on claims. A key factor in the CMS decision was the addition of chaplain services as a supplemental benefit within Medicare Advantage, which demonstrated a need to expand coding beyond the VA.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2023

Language in the 2024 proposed rule for the Medicare hospice program gives some indication of where the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is heading when it comes to quality measurement requirements. Historically, about 18% of Medicare-certified hospices are found non-compliant, according to Wehri.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Net service revenue for Pennant’s home health and hospice segment reached $95 million in Q2, up 11.3% The company’s most recent transaction was its June acquisition of Bluebird Home Health, Bluebird Hospice and Bluebird Home Care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). year-over-year.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week issued its 2024 home health payment rule , which contained several hospice provisions. Hospices flagged by the SFP also will be surveyed every six months rather than the current three-year cycle and could face monetary penalties or expulsion from the Medicare program.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving hospices a 3.1% Jennifer Sheets, the former president and CEO of Caring Brands International and Interim HealthCare Inc., recently discussed that idea at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Hospice industry organizations have voiced support for proposed updates to the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, but raised questions on the implementation timeline. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included the updates in its proposed hospice payment rule for 2025.

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 18, 2019

offering a full range of in-home services, from home care, to skilled nursing services, to highly-specialized care for chronic diseases. About Lifematters Founded in 2004, Lifematters is the largest employer-based home care and care management company in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

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Hospice News

JULY 27, 2023

NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare, but financial pressure points remain. The company’s retention program boosted its workforce with an additional 309 health care professionals during Q2. All told, VITAS Healthcare has recruited 784 workers since the bonus program’s launch a year ago, the majority of whom were nurses.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). We are committed to ensuring that the HOSPICE Act is implemented in a manner that aligns with congressional intent to improve the quality of care delivered to Medicare beneficiaries nearing the end of life,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter.

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