Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

“In 2020, Compassus became the managing partner of Ascension at Home, a joint venture between Ascension and Compassus, broadening both organizations’ home-based care services beyond hospice and palliative care to also encompass home health,” a Compassus spokesperson told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Avow Hospice provides pediatric and adult palliative and hospice care across Southwest Florida. Established in 1983, The nonprofit hospice is part of a multi-facility health care system and a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. Prior to joining the organization he served as executive director at Good Shepherd Hospice. “We

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2023 will phase out dual-eligibility special needs look-alike plans within Medicare Advantage. Close to 12 million people in the United States qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Guaranteed serves Medicare and Medicaid patients across five counties in southern California, including the Los Angeles region. Established in 1980, Hospice of the Piedmont provides community-based hospice and palliative care in Charlottesville, Virginia, and across 12 surrounding counties. Carl Derrick as medical director.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The company foresees opportunities to collaborate with other providers in the care continuum, including primary care physicians, home health, and hospice and palliative care organizations, according to CEO and Co-Founder Kris Engskov. “On So how do we provide that infrastructure to keep them at home?”.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider has since expanded its geographic reach across the Southeast region to include Georgia.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Florida-based nonprofit Alivia Care is focused on gearing up for value-based systems in 2024. Alivia Care came into existence in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services. They’re not living there.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Based in Louisville, KY, Pallitus provides palliative care to anyone facing serious illnesses such as cancer, heart failure, COPD and more. With a service area that includes 41 counties throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana, Pallitus is focused on helping people live better and longer with quality palliative care programs.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Founded in 1984, CommuniCare Health Services is a family-owned company that provides post-acute services including skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, behavioral health and long-term care. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in West Virginia reached 43.6%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Then finally, we’re doing the same kind of thing with problem-solving in palliative care, trying to move our research up upstream outside of hospice a bit. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. Mitchell Schwartz, president of clinical enterprise and chief physician executive at Luminis Health. About 47.6%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

A direct contracting entity (DCE), CareConnectMD offers primary care, palliative care, and care coordination services. Through the program, DCEs take complete responsibility for a patient’s care while assuming 100% of the financial risk. The company’s interdisciplinary care model is “high-touch,” according to Phan.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. If you decide to pursue another opportunity, you may have massive exposure in terms of sustainability.” But it goes both ways.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. In post-acute care, we see people further down in their health trajectory. Medicare is thinking about it.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

A leading cause of fraud involves hospices billing Medicare for services for which patients were not eligible, according to a 2021 report from Bass, Berry, & Sims. Some hospices have already begun seeing penalties from a rise in UPIC audit activity, including reimbursement suspensions or Medicare claim repayments.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Mollie Gurian, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge Mandates for hospice workers Health care providers must comply with all applicable pre-PHE requirements after May 11, according to recent guidance from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

Hospice of the Midwest’s services within the Marshalltown community include assistance with medical equipment and medication order and delivery, developing patient care plans, providing home assessment consultations and a veteran honors program. The facility marks the company’s first steps into inpatient care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Rehabbed to Death.

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Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Similarly, many veteran families fear that paying for extended hospice care will force them to take a significant cut from their savings, potentially bankrupting themselves in the process. Department of Veteran Affairs), Tricare, Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. And so- Eric: A lot of care was just a tiny, tiny baby by that back then. Acute care is called acute care for a reason.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The net of it is that the folks that are running hospice and palliative care, they have so much on their plate regulatory-wise. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. Abby: Thanks for having me. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. Welcome, Karl.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Nicole: Yeah, it was huge. Raele: Yeah.

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