Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included the updates in its proposed hospice payment rule for 2025. Between the 2021 and 2023 reporting period, those rates reached only 29%, according to data cited in comments on the rule by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Association (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“If you think about how they’ve taken on strains in their capacity, these post-acute services – home health and hospice – they can get patients out of very expensive settings,” Klementz told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 Conference. Among the 1.6 Among the 1.6 Redbanks opened the unit through a partnership with St.

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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

MARCH 29, 2023

Are you in an outlier scenario with your data that Medicare contractors are looking at? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Young told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Kentucky-based Hosparus Health is poised for expansion — through joint ventures, new investments in its palliative care program and the forthcoming launch of a PACE center. The nonprofit hospice provider’s subsidiary — Care Guide Partners — has applied to the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2023

The flexibilities enabled hospice and palliative care providers to maintain continuity of care while reducing safety risks, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He turned his attention to health care after immigrating to the United States, where in time he matriculated at the University of Texas in Dallas. To get by, he took a job in the IT department of a nursing home, where he quickly realized that health care technology could use an upgrade. Could you describe that vision?

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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. Then finally, we’re doing the same kind of thing with problem-solving in palliative care, trying to move our research up upstream outside of hospice a bit. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Chicago-based Oak Street Health consists of a network of value-based primary care facilities that serve upwards of 145,000 Medicare beneficiaries across 21 states.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The hospital sought hospice licensure in the certificate of need state after Hospice and Home Care of Juneau (HHCJ) halted services last October, citing high staffing costs and insufficient nursing resources. HHCJ received Medicare certification in 2006 and was operated by Catholic Community Services prior to its closure.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The archdiocese in August announced an agreement to exit from all affiliated senior care businesses, including the health system. CommCare’s purchase of Notre Dame’s home health and hospice operations marks the transaction of this divestiture Its nursing home services are next in line as part of a separate deal set to close in 2023.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

Because most of the individuals accessing PACE are going to be Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. A lot of times you find that they don’t have an option to stay at home, because they can’t afford to bring in support systems or pay for private sitters, and they end up going to a nursing home.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

That year Medicare determined that dying was no longer a diagnosis that warranted a hospital admission. Families were struggling to manage the death of their loved ones unsupported at home. The Merkels keenly felt the lack of compassionate care options for the dying. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care.

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Americare Hospice

AUGUST 24, 2021

Hospice care in the United States is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. Hospice care was introduced to the United States in the 1970s in response to the work of Cicely Saunders in the United Kingdom.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2024

Members of Congress are raising questions about the continued Medicare certification for new hospices in areas rife with fraud. Investigations have shown that potentially hundreds of newly licensed hospices have bilked Medicare of millions of dollars during the past several years, all while providing egregiously poor care or none at all.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 27, 2022

A true partnership in end of life care. Now, as you know (and just to be clear), Hospice care is very closely regulated by federal rules and laws, and really specifically by Medicare. In Hospice care, especially the ‘in-home care, that's not always possible. That's because Hospice Agencies practice medicine.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. And so- Eric: A lot of care was just a tiny, tiny baby by that back then. Acute care is called acute care for a reason.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And the hard part is, as a provider in palliative care, I actually have very little say of which hospice the individuals we consult to go to. Does the hospice offer general inpatient care?

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Mollie Gurian, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge Mandates for hospice workers Health care providers must comply with all applicable pre-PHE requirements after May 11, according to recent guidance from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Additional waivers are also going away.

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