Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

New CEO Takes Reigns at Sangre de Cristo Community Care Colorado-based Sangre de Cristo Community Care named Melinda Egging as its new CEO. Egging will oversee operations of the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. It was a natural transition for me to move into hospice.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Palliative care lacks a standardized definition within current value-based reimbursement systems, making it difficult to determine the full scope of services for seriously ill patients. Palliative care services are intended to address physical, psychosocial, social and spiritual needs of seriously ill individuals.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

VITAS Healthcare Expands Hospital-Based Inpatient Hospice Center Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare recently expanded its inpatient hospice care unit at the Florida-based Broward Health Medical Center. Miami-based VITAS has provided community- and facility-based hospice care in the Broward County area since 1980.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Reimbursement pressures, workforce strains and lagging awareness represent pain points preventing greater utilization of palliative care. There are so many things that need to be addressed to improve quality and access to pediatric palliative and hospice care,” Leonard told Palliative Care News in an email.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. The home health and hospice provider is part of the home care service line of Uintah Basin Healthcare. Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

Margin pressures from the proposed cuts to Medicare home health rates could impact palliative care and hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in June released its proposed home health reimbursement rule for 2023, which included a 4.2% pay hike for hospice care in 2023.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Empath LIFE Day Center and Medical Clinic will also provide transportation to medical appointments within the post-acute health system’s network of specialists and in-home care services, along with guidance and educational services for caregivers. The hospice’s W.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Penn Bay Medical Center is moving forward with plans to evolve its palliative care program. The medical center is an affiliate of the MaineHealth system and began providing hospital-based palliative care two years ago. It has since expanded into community-based serious illness care. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2024

Nevada-based 1Care Hospice, part of 1Care Health, recently acquired Reset Behavior Health for an undisclosed amount. 1Care Hospice and 1Care Kids’ provides interdisciplinary hospice and palliative services to adult and pediatric populations. The provider offers home health and private duty services across northern Nevada.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit. 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?

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

The clarification was intended to reconcile differences between the agency’s Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and its Conditions of Payment, according to Katie Wehri, director of home care and hospice regulatory affairs for the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Doing home care? Hospice visits? As I argue on the podcast, ELNEC has likely done more to lift the primary palliative care skills of clinicians than any other initiative. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Much judge.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

However, stakeholders in the hospice space contend that the increase is insufficient in light of continued inflation, interest rates, staffing shortages and wage hikes. 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.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Researchers have found common threads in efforts to develop sustainable pediatric palliative care for underserved patients and families in need worldwide. Though demand is growing for pediatric palliative care, availability of these services is scarce at global levels, with staffing shortages and reimbursement issues as large culprits.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 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. Amy Rose, director of palliative products for Axxess, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

The unique needs of families and children facing life-limiting can wear pediatric palliative and hospice care clinicians especially thin, and the potential for burnout can leave providers even more short-staffed than many already are. Even outside of hospice, caring for seriously ill children can take a mental and emotional toll.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

We all know that hospice creates savings, Hospice and palliative care, because of their savings and their higher outcomes, actually are the solution that value-based care is looking for,” Stawasz said. Value-based care, incentivizes use of palliative care, incentivizes use of hospice.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research around hospice care has come a long way. But data gaps exist when it comes to expanding understanding of some aspects of end-of-life care delivery. A range of researchers has amassed a growing base of data on hospice, with some common themes tied to quality outcomes, costs, length of stay and general inpatient care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec. Often called the “hospice carve-in,” the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, in addition to some coverage of palliative care and transitional care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

New Day Healthcare Appoints EVP of Hospice Texas-based New Day Healthcare recently promoted Debbie Weber to senior executive vice president of hospice operations. Weber ascended to the role after serving as vice president of operations for hospice at Phoenix Home Care & Hospice, a New Day Healthcare company.

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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

MAY 9, 2023

The future of telehealth in hospice care delivery is among the questions swirling around the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11. Though initially the telehealth waivers weren’t intended to be permanent, they will likely have long-term impacts in hospice.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

A bill currently before Congress would extend through 2026 regulatory flexibilities related to telehealth, including the ability to recertify patients for hospice care. If a hospice is undergoing a period of enhanced oversight by the U.S. “We It also includes some exceptions.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. Established in 1980, Hospice of the Piedmont provides community-based hospice and palliative care in Charlottesville, Virginia, and across 12 surrounding counties.

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Traditions Health

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But as their care provider, you have the opportunity to guide patients and their families to resources like hospice care that can make their remaining time more comfortable and fulfilling. As you begin the delicate conversation about choosing hospice care, make sure you cover the following talking points.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Denver Hospice recently tapped Dr. Robert Howe as its new medical director following the retirement of Dr. Shirlee Turner after 11 years of service at the company. The Denver Hospice is an affiliate of the Care Synergy network, a collaborative of nonprofit hospice, home health and palliative care providers in Colorado.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2023

Despite years of scrutiny over the duration of hospice care, new data show that longer stays reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%. All told, hospice care — regardless of length of stay — saves Medicare approximately $3.5 billion for patients in their last year of life, a 3.1%

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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 less than it would have been had they not received hospice care. In the last year of life, the total costs of care to Medicare for beneficiaries who used hospice was 3.1

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

These include the audit system created by Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014, and the two-tiered reimbursement for routine home care that reduced payment amounts after 60 days. Designed to prevent misuse of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, these efforts may have had unintended consequences.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

Program integrity and an onslaught of audits are top of mind for many hospice providers in 2024. We look forward to continuing our work with CMS and Congress to ensure an equitable and effective enforcement system that preserves access to nonprofit, mission driven hospice care.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Combined, the network’s member hospices serve more than 2,200 patients and families each year across 11 counties with a workforce of nearly 300 employees. One of the founding members, Elizabeth Hospice, left the network due to divergent activities and timelines that complicated their participation.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Lawmakers have an essential role in ensuring the viability of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, according to Davis Baird, director for government affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). He also wrote some sections of the Affordable Care Act.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The inpatient center will allow for smoother transitions to hospice care among eligible hospitalized and emergency patients, as well as home- and community-based referrals, according to Gayle Mattson, president and CEO of Hospice of Cincinnati/HOC Navigators. These include Residential Healthcare Group, among others.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Traditions Health

JUNE 19, 2023

What Are the Four Levels of Hospice Care? Hospice care  is for patients who have a life threatening or terminal illness and their life expectancy is six months or less if their disease process runs its normal course. Routine Home Care Routine home  care  for hospice patients is covered by Medicare part A.

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