Hospice News
MAY 24, 2024
The nation’s publicly traded hospice companies are primed for more acquisitions after a 2023 slump, fueled by census and growth. Transaction volume declined in the hospice and home-based care space in 2023, following the two record-breaking prior years. for an undisclosed amount.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
This year brought the return of Medicare sequestration, and pandemic-driven disruption in referral streams are lingering. Moving to this care management model is going to allow [nurses] to better manage a caseload of patients. We’re also going to have on-call and triage nurses to help them,” Jacobsmeyer said at the conference.
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Hospice News
MARCH 29, 2024
The 2025 proposed hospice rule is raising some questions along with payment rates. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 2.6% increase in hospice per diems for 2025. We know that hospice care has demonstrated $3.5 Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Referral rejection rates among hospices reached a record high of 41% in 2022, according to data from CarePort, a WellSky company. Nurses also accounted for 16.97% of vacancies. Hospice aides and CNAs also represented a large percentage of job vacancies and saw high turnover rates, 19.05% and 29.84%, respectively.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Offering hospice can be a gamechanger for skilled nursing and assisted living operators looking to stand out from competitors and improve patient reach. Home-based care, including hospice, has become an increasingly attractive space for facility-based health care providers of all walks. Anthony’s Hospice. Among the 1.6
Hospice News
JUNE 21, 2023
We’ve got a payment update that doesn’t reflect the reality of running a hospice, and these are things that we can ask for help on,” Logan Hoover, NHPCO’s vice president of policy and government relations, told Hospice News. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2.8% told Hospice News. “I
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
A federal judge has sentenced Jesus Virlar-Cadena, formerly a medical director for the Texas-based hospice company Merida Group, to 50 months in prison for his role in a $152 million scheme. The Justice Department accused Virlar-Cadena of personally certifying more than $18 million in fraudulent hospice claims. “In
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