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Customizing Hospice, Palliative Care Payment Contracts in ACO REACH

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Hospices and Accountable Care Organizations have the ability to customize payment contracts within the Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) program. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is replacing the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) model with ACO REACH. Effective Jan.

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CMS 2025 Proposed Rule Signals Changes to Quality Measurement, Omits Program Integrity Actions

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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

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Hospices Seek Congressional Action on Staffing Constraints

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Years after it was first introduced, hospice leaders are calling on Congress to move forward legislation that would bolster their dwindling workforce. The most significant bill in recent years is the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), which has come before Congress time and again but has not yet been passed.

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4 Key Trends for Hospices to Watch in 2024

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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.

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Why Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Operators Invest in Home-Based Hospice Programs

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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

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SCAN Group Invests in Guaranteed’s ‘Inclusive’ Hospice Technology Services

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Medicare Advantage organization SCAN Group has invested an undisclosed dollar amount in tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed. The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away.

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Publicly Traded Hospice Execs See Signs of Improvement in Labor Market

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Some hospice company leaders have signaled the labor market may be showing signs of stabilization. Not surprisingly, labor was a key discussion in all our meetings, and the takeaway is that we have seen the worst of the tightness in the nursing labor market,” Tanquilut and Phillips said in the note.

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