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

AUGUST 8, 2023

Their recommendations included a temporary moratorium on new hospices enrolling in Medicare. The earlier experiences of home health providers informed those recommendations as well. “We The SMRC will notify hospices under review with a statement of reasons, request for documentation as well as informational resources.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Addus HomeCare Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ADUS) is shifting its M&A strategy away from hospice deals to focus on its home health and personal care businesses. Texas-based Addus provides personal, home health and hospice care across 207 locations in 22 states, reaching roughly 46,500 patients annually.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

“People have been flipping licenses, absolutely,” Cory Mertz, managing partner for the M&A Advisory firm Mertz Taggart, told Hospice News. “We led a group of lawmakers who wrote to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure asking for the agency to brief them on fraud and abuse within the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2022

Assistant HHS Inspector General Erin Bliss raised concerns during the hearing about MA plans using chart reviews or in-home health risk assessments to diagnose patients, often without additional follow-up. One potential factor is that historically MA does not cover hospice care. billion in 2017 alone, she indicated.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

She will also play a crucial role in supporting the hospice care team, ensuring overall programming is operating at the highest of standards, and continuing to implement strategic, operational, and growth initiatives. “I Before joining Traditions Health, Boyd served as area vice president of operations for Kindred Hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Debbie Jonhston is a registered nurse who founded Viriginia-based Serenity First Hospice in 2021, inspired by the care her father recieved as he reached the end of his life. With the launch of Serenity First, Johnston transitioned from her career in home health and personal care.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Though professionally she has cared for terminally ill patients for more than 30 years, her personal experience after her mother’s diagnosis with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer underscored the critical importance of her work. This drives her commitment to expand access to hospice care, particularly among underserved populations.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

Hospice News sat down with Jacobsmeyer to talk about her plans and priorities for the nation’s newest, publicly traded, national company to offer hospice care. . Enhabit Enhabit Enhabit Home Health & Hospice CEO Barbara Jacobsmeyer. Louis and chief operating officer of Des Peres Hospital.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 14, 2020

AlayaCare on site at top industry conference January 19-22 in Miami Next week, the nation’s top conference for leaders in home and hospice care heads to Miami as Home Care 100 lands January 19-22. III) Bonus: Mergers and Acquisitions One session on Monday ( Home Care M&A Outlook , 2:15 – 3 p.m.)

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Empath Health Empath Health Empath Health CEO Rafael Sciullo. Empath offers hospice care through Suncoast Hospice, Suncoast Hospice of Hillsborough and Tidewell Hospice. You’ve spoken before about keeping the patient and family as the “true center of hospice care.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Impacts from the the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration have also come under hospices’ radar. Hospice care reduces Medicare expenditures by about $3.5 Altonia Garret, COO, Blue Ridge Hospice The ability to serve critically ill patients earlier on their end-of-life journey via a concurrent model of care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Whether that’s short lengths of stays, longer lengths of stays, GIP levels of care qualification, medical eligibility or medical necessity requirements, really every area, hospice is under the microscope now. We had a lot of this in home health, and now it’s hospice’s turn to be scrutinized.

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