Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Implementation of the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been challenging for both payers and providers, though a recent analysis indicates that it may get easier over time. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) commissioned the RAND Corp.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Several of these bills have rolled out this year from the Senate Comprehensive Care Caucus , which Rosen co-founded, including Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act , the Provider Training in Palliative Care Act and Improving Access to Transfusion Care for Hospice Patients Act. Earl Blumenhauer (D-Ore.)

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Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If you are caring for a veteran who is terminally ill or nearing the end of life, hospice care can be a smart choice. Corresponding with remedial care, hospice care focuses on facilitating a patient’s quality of life rather than extending its length. rather than merely managing their physical symptoms.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

Increasingly, both policymakers and providers are seeing potential opportunities to reform the Medicare Hospice Benefit, including the prospect of concurrent care. Driving these conversations is the need to lighten the nation’s heavy health care spend, which in 2021 reached $4.3 told Hospice News. “If

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Daly said her local area has a greater demand for services than Evenbeam can currently meet, especially as more patients become aware of neuropalliative care. And even with that,” she said, “we’re only seeing a small piece of what’s really out there in terms of people in need.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Over time, Medicare Advantage plans will likely have a greater presence as hospice payers, and now is the time for providers to build relationships those organizations. Originally slated to end in 2024, CMS recently extended the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) to 2023. SCAN is a $4.3

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Many of these patients could benefit from receiving hospice care sooner and longer, but regulatory requirements can make that a challenging feat for providers, she said. They could still benefit from hospice services earlier in their disease course, and for a much longer time.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Collaborations with participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Primary Care Flex demo could allow hospices to leverage their skill sets to access more patients. Hospices and palliative care providers can come to ACOs by two main avenues.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. A number of industry groups and lawmakers have pushed for the establishment of a dedicated palliative care benefit within Medicare.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Hospice News sat down with providers, advocacy groups, legal experts and other stakeholders to uncover the most significant hospice regulatory trends from this year and their anticipated impacts heading into 2024 and beyond. Many established services for the purpose of selling the license at a profit or defrauding Medicare.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2023

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is considering a broad spectrum of payment models that could integrate palliative care. This could include demos that fuse palliative care into Accountable Care Organization (ACO) or primary care programs, among others. “In

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This includes the revamping of the hospice survey process and the establishment of a Special Focus Program slated to begin in 2024, to name a few. What we would love for our lawmakers to do is really champion the program as it exists and make sure it’s protected from threats to its payment system,” Baird told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2023

Nearly all hospices were nonprofit organizations at the time the Medicare benefit was established in 1982, but in terms of sheer numbers the balance has shifted toward for-profits in the intervening years. For six of the seven measures, for-profit and nonprofit hospices had average scores of 94.7% The post RAND Corp.:

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). CMS introduced SIA in 2016. SIA utilization has risen incrementally since its inception.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Croix Hospice to expand in Iowa. “Nearly 37% of Iowa residents live in rural communities, and 21% of the state’s population receive Medicare. Croix Hospice, in a statement. A little more than 21,000 Medicare patients in Iowa elected hospice in 2021, according to the U.S. of the state’s population.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Since then, he has sponsored a number of bills designed to improve the quality of hospice care as well as combat fraud in the space. Blumenauer has co-led a number of bipartisan initiatives to improve program integrity within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, often in partnership with Rep. House of Representatives.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

New payment models are also providing an impetus to embrace hospice care, according to BofA researchers. This includes gradual shifts towards value-based reimbursement and a drive to reduce facility-based care and associated costs. We’re closely watching what happens with value-based pilots in hospice,” said Tanquilut. “I

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) is prioritizing hospice as the agency cracks down on health care fraud. DOJ counts hospice claims among the root causes of rising Medicare costs in recent years, according to Lisa Miller, deputy assistant attorney general overseeing the department’s Crime Fraud Section. million.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

Data are key to understanding how value-based care has helped highlight quality benefits of hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sunsetting the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) as of Dec. The post Hospice’s Outlook in Value-Based Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Transfusion services are not sufficiently covered under current hospice reimbursement, hindering providers’ in terms of care delivery and patient reach, Armitage stated. Greater transfusion support could translate into smoother care transitions in the home among hospice patients, according to Armitage.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Frontpoint Health has completed its acquisition of the Texas-based home health and hospice company High Plains Senior Care Group (HPSC). Financial terms were undisclosed. When you have more resources, you’re able to provide a larger array of care, better supportive care to patients.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Longer general inpatient hospice stays and high-cost issues are reasons for the audit, dubbed the “Audit of Selected, High-Risk Medicare Hospice General Inpatient Services,” according to OIG. The audit is among a host of others in the health care space that the agency rolled out this month in its Work Plan initiatives.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 3, 2023

billion nonprofit Medicare Advantage (MA) organization that covers more than 285,000 members across California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas. Value-based care is neither good nor bad. Value-based care is neither good nor bad. Inroads to value-based reimbursement Thus far, the biggest step into value-based care has come with VBID.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

(NASDAQ: PNTG) has acquired Guardian Hospice and Guardian Hospice of Oklahoma for an undisclosed amount. Guardian Hospice of Oklahoma received Medicare certification in 2015 and has since grown its presence in the state and across Texas. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

In the next section, we will discuss the differences between Hospice and Home Health care. What Is Hospice Care? Hospice is the care provided for a terminally ill patient who has a life expectancy of six months or less. This ensures proper access to medical, emotional, and spiritual care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model will begin its third year on Jan. Often called the MA hospice carve-in , the voluntary demonstration is designed to assess payer and provider performance related to hospice within Medicare Advantage (MA). Because say in three or four years.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2023

Croix Hospice cares for over 4,000 patients from more than 60 locations in 10 Midwestern states. “Health care providers have been closing their doors across rural America, and Iowa is no exception,” Kim Kirschbaum, St. .” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). All told St. Census Bureau reported.

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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.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

The New York-based acute care hospital focuses almost exclusively on palliative and hospice care. All of us have to look at that in terms of understanding for quality, as well as for a business model itself.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extends the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in through 2023, providers are concerned about preserving patient choice and the nature of concurrent care. As it currently stands a patient can choose whichever hospice they want when they elect hospice care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

Data is more crucial to hospice businesses than ever before when it comes to payer and referral partner contracting, compliance and building their census. But even outside of new payment models, upstream providers are looking more closely at the numbers when selecting hospice partners.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Evidence at the trial showed that the Merida Group marketed their hospice programs through a group of companies,” the U.S. They enrolled patients with long-term incurable diseases such as Alzheimers and dementia as well as patients with limited mental capacity who lived at group homes, nursing homes and in housing projects.”

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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. Guaranteed serves Medicare and Medicaid patients across five counties in southern California, including the Los Angeles region. Carl Derrick as medical director.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Grief’s care largest staffing gaps The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires hospices to offer bereavement care for a minimum of 13 months following a patient’s death. Many providers extend this care to communities across their service regions, regardless of whether the deceased was a patient.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Experience with value-based care Value-based reimbursement is a rising tide, particularly for AccentCare’s diverse business lines. Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) are making big inroads in the home health and palliative care markets, and hospice continues to inch in that direction.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

California is among the states that have become hotbeds for fraud, including a swath of providers that were starting hospices just to flip the licenses. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) honed in on hospice program integrity through a number of new regulations, including some in the agency’s 2024 hospice final rule.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

More than 35,000 people received hospice care in Wisconsin in 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Croix cares for over 4,000 patients from 60 locations in 10 Midwestern states. Financial terms for these transactions were undisclosed.

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