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. As of 2019, the U.S.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Issues of fraud in the hospice industry echo events that previously affected the home health space, and providers can learn from that prior experience. This is according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), who spoke Thursday in a Relias webinar.
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Hospice News
JULY 3, 2023
Some of these providers have secured licenses, as well as Medicare certification and, sometimes, accreditation. They then proceed to enroll a small number of patients for whom they never bill Medicare, multiple hospice executives told Hospice News on background. By not billing, they are better able to avoid regulators’ attention.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Guardian Hospice of Oklahoma received Medicare certification in 2015 and has since grown its presence in the state and across Texas. Guardian provides hospice care in 10 counties in southern Oklahoma and across six counties in northern Texas, adding to Pennant’s existing presence in those two states. The Pennant Group Inc.
Hospice News
AUGUST 8, 2023
Hospices seeking to gauge the potential impact of new regulatory actions in the space can look to their counterparts in the home health field. CMS is no doubt hoping for similar results for the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Their recommendations included a temporary moratorium on new hospices enrolling in Medicare.
Hospice News
JANUARY 3, 2023
Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC)] audits and those sorts of things add overhead expenses, and those indirect costs are going to be something that we all will have to deal with. Because as more [Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Medicare shared-savings health plans negotiate with hospices, they’re going to want a discount.”.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
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. We saw it in home health, triggering reactions relative to increased audit activity on the claim side of it.
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