Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Variations in hospice certificate of need (CON) state laws are raising program integrity concerns. What ends up happening in states without CON is actually lower hospice utilization with way too many hospices in one service area, and often fragmented care without all four levels of hospice offered,” Ponder-Stansel told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A revolution is needed in hospice care, complete with a new mindset, updated care models and redesigned payment systems, Dr Monisha Pujari, medical director for Longleaf Hospice, told Hospice News. She discussed many of these issues in her June Ted Talk , “How to Die Well.” In 2014, I made the jump fully to hospice.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 How do they deal with professional barriers and the barrage of comments? Great title.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As of 2020, Miami-based VITAS is the nation’s largest hospice provider by market share, operating 50 locations in 14 states. The company is set to announce on Monday that three of its long-time employees are moving into new leadership positions. Meanwhile, its parent company Chemed has named a new CFO.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Dallas-based home health and hospice provider announced on Sept. 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. AccentCare recently tapped Steward Health Care COO Laura Tortorella as its new CEO.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

When Interim HealthCare and Caring Brands International CEO Jennifer Sheets speaks about hospice length of stay, it “strikes a nerve.” A disconnect exists between the ways providers perceive hospice lengths of stay and the views of regulators. That is a big miss on the part of CMS and the government,” Sheets told Hospice News. “We

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Lynn: How do you handle your heat? Anne: So Alex, tell us, how many bones have you broken? Alex: Because we got many, many long emails from people who practice MAID in Canada. And the US, saying that was, well in summary of the very long emails saying that we were fairly one-sided in who our guests were on that podcast.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Rising regulatory scrutiny around length of stay may be having adverse impacts on health care costs and quality, hospice leaders said in a recent Congressional briefing. Longer stays yield greater savings Regulators have fixed their gaze on longer hospice stays as signals of potential fraud, waste and abuse. Additionally, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Patrick Leary, VP, Client Services, Enclara Pharmacia, to learn about the top factors that impact the nurse experience in hospice care. Hospice News: Since our last conversation in mid-2021, what challenges have you encountered amidst the changes that have taken place?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

While the program currently does not cover hospice outside of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model demonstration , it remains one of the few reimbursement pathways for palliative care and services to address social determinants of health. Medicare Advantage (MA) is a growing force in health care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Hospice leaders can benefit and improve by staying engaged with bedside care. Sciullo joined Suncoast Hospice in 2013, which is now an affiliate of Empath Health. There, he realized that patients would benefit from having a network of home- and community-based services that begin long before a six-month terminal prognosis.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

But in time, her drive to improve patients’ quality of life led her to the hospice and palliative care fields. Templeton now is a hospice physician consultant at Weatherbee Resources as well as medical director for Texas-based Hendrick Hospice Care. And so that really is what has steered me since then to where I am now.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2023

Just last week, the company announced that it would be acquired by a new Kaiser Permanente venture, Risant Health. Palliative Care News spoke with Digwood about the company’s growth and how it’s been investing more time, money and energy into its palliative care services. How does palliative care factor into your health plan?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

Barbara Jacobsmeyer as of July 1 became the first CEO of Enhabit Home Health and Hospice (NYSE: EHAB) as an independent, standalone company. Enhabit emerged from the spinoff of Encompass Health’s (NYSE: EHC) home health and hospice segment, which completed in July. The new company expects to earn nearly $1.08 billion to $1.12

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). We also had the pleasure to take a walk through the hospice unit garden with Mr. Gerald Hite. Eric: And Alex, last week we did episode one of Hospice in Prison.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2022

We and our partners across the Medicare Advantage community have long been committed to stable and accurate risk adjustment policies.”. also said that she would like to know why a higher proportion of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries disenrolled during the last year of life. Subcommittee chairwoman Diana DeGette (D-Colo.)

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Disruption in home health reimbursement has an influence on the hospice mergers and acquisitions market, particularly among the rising number of companies offering both services. At the time, on a national level, no one knew how 2020 reimbursement was going to shake out and, specifically, what the behavioral adjustment would ultimately be.

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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. Questions are also percolating around the long-term viability of the six-month terminal prognosis requirement. of hospice enrollees in 2020, compared to 7.5%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The recent article by the New Yorker and ProPublica that branded “hospice” as a profiteering “hustle” was an outrageous misrepresentation of the provider community. The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), for instance, filed an amicus brief with the court. Even when a hospice plays by the rules, death does not.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Hospice News sits down with Rebecca Christensen, Director of Clinical Services at BetterRX, to talk about the keys to achieving the most efficient patient care. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? Why are you passionate about hospice?

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Most hospices are sliding into 2023 between a rock and a hard place, beset by headwinds, labor shortages and questions with no easy answers. Government oversight of hospice providers will tighten during 2023. Hospices have faced ever-intensifying scrutiny from regulators in recent years. Fraud does happen.

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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. Johnston is the author of two books, including The Hospice Handbook, which published in June by Advantage Media Group. Hospice is different in the beginning.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Last time you were on, you said, all clinicians should sign up for an X waiver. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah. That was in April of 2022. Devon: Thanks so much.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Hospice News recently sat down with Ben Marcantonio, chief operating officer and interim president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), to discuss how hospice providers are navigating a sea of challenges. What led you to step in as interim CEO?

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2022

The business case for diversity, equity and inclusion in hospice care. It could impact hospices’ sustainability as well as their access to patients. Initiatives to reach underserved populations have been a rising priority among hospice providers. Invest in long-term change. Where hospices swing and miss in diversity.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

The hospice space — and the health care system at large — is in a state of flux, driven by value-based reimbursement models, an expanding home-based care continuum and industry-changing transactions. All of these factors herald big changes for Amedisys and the hospice community at large. I think we have the solutions for them.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2023

He explores wage growth through a talent strategy lens, and he discusses how interim management falls into this equation. Eric Scharber: I started my career in the Talent Acquisition and Retention industry right out of college and have devoted the last 23+ years to the space. Annual wage growth has been somewhere between 5.2

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

It does create that alignment of incentives in a way that I think is very positive for the palliative provider.” With value-based care you really want to give the patient the best care, even if you’re not paid much fee-for-service for it, as long as it creates great outcomes,” Cornwell told Palliative Care News.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. Finally, we heard about next steps and lessons learned, as though this was the largest pragmatic trial of palliative care to date, it isn’t their last. Much more to come. Ashwin: Wow.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

Recent allegations that staff at HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) put pressure on patients to enter hospice dovetail with longstanding questions over how and when patients should be referred. SEIU benchmarked HCA’s hospice transfer rates against national data. It’s hard to say that you have proof. More than 1.72

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying. But before we go into that particular article, how did you get interested in this as a topic around hospital culture or the variations that we see and why we have those variations? Liz: Right.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2022

Hospice provider Care Dimensions has tapped Dr. Stephanie Patel as its new CEO, upon the retirement of previous top executive Patricia Ahern. Care Dimensions is the largest hospice provider in Massachusetts. Additionally, Patel is a fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and speaks locally and nationally.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. Joni suffered a stroke and had to completely re-learn how to play guitar. We use Bernie’s NEJM Perspective as a springboard for discussion.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I think that it’s very similar to a lot of people that we work with and a lot of people that are attracted to this work, is something caused them anguish, pain, or multiple things, and it brought them to this idea of how do we move with that, and how do we feel the pulse, rhythm, and movement of suffering? Alex: I broke my hand.

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