Hospice News

JULY 2, 2025

Health care providers that are investing in palliative care need to have an effective business plan to support their efforts. The content of these business plans can vary based on setting, such as inpatient hospitals or community-based programs, according to Brynn Bowman, CEO of the Center for Advance Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Pennant Group has been quietly building palliative care programs driven by its local leaders with support from the corporate offices Service Center. Pennants Service Center also facilitates education in palliative care for local leaders and provides, including courses from the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Heart to Heart Hospices return on investment in its community-based palliative care service line has come in the form of improved quality and financial outcomes. The results are a product of the hospices recently formed value-based partnership with a leading unnamed Medicare Advantage plan in its home state.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Access was the watchword in the palliative care community during 2024, as providers sought more ways to reach the right patients at the right time. The following are the most-read Palliative Care News articles of 2024. Laws vary across states, with some allowing for greater therapeutic use than others.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a nearly 2.9% cut for 2025 in physician payment rates used to reimburse palliative care care practitioners, among other professionals. To put it bluntly, Medicare plans to pay us less while costs go up. ” The post CMS Finalizes 2.9%

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Hospice News

JUNE 18, 2025

Potential referral partners and investors often see palliative care as a value-add for a hospice, home health agency or other provider. Palliative programs are difficult to manage as a standalone business due to the lack of a robust reimbursement model.

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2025

Lawmakers are bringing greater attention to a pair of bipartisan Senate bills designed to improve access to community-based palliative and hospice care services. If enacted, the bills would allow the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test new payment models intended to reduce barriers to timely, coordinated care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

NYSE: HUM) and Thyme Care promises to expand access to palliative care among the oncology care companys patient population. The value-based agreement contracts Thyme Care with Humana Medicare Advantage plans, giving them access to their beneficiaries. A new partnership between Humana Inc.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Hospices nationwide have been diversifying their services to include palliative care, PACE, home-based primary care and a host of other business lines. However, some organizations have found success with disease-specific programs reimbursed through the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2025

While community-based palliative care is important for many patients, many providers may consider it to be a financial challenge. An additional seven more are considering or implementing community-based palliative care programs: Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, New York, South Carolina, Washington.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Chicago-based Elea Institute is seeking to improve public awareness of hospice and palliative care as well as convene discussions about ways to rethink the Medicare benefit. One is access to hospice and palliative care and serious illness care, then education and awareness.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A recent research project that combined palliative care with dementia care management reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations by half among its patient population. The post IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50% appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Health care providers can have a bumpy road ahead of them when it comes to launching a new service like palliative care, in part due to complex legal and regulatory requirements. What are some of the legal and regulatory hurdles that a health care provider would have to cross when starting a palliative care program?

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2025

Risk-based contracts may be the future of palliative care reimbursement as Medicare Advantage continues to ascend. The simple term value-based care belies its complexity. The term can refer to any number of payment models that are designed to reduce total cost of care and improve outcomes.

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Hospice News

MAY 28, 2025

Health cares hunt for treatment and cure can leave comfort overlooked. But if it is to meet growing demand for high quality palliative care, the United States needs interdisciplinary teams that can attend to patients complex clinical, social and emotional needs.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recent studies have established a dire need for palliative care in rural areas, and the state of Michigan is no stranger to this situation. In the current phase of the project, Stratis will be training MCRH staff to apply their framework for implementing palliative care programs in the target areas.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2025

The opportunities are endless when it comes to clinical innovation in palliative care delivery. This is according to Amy Scheu, associate vice president hospice and palliative care at Advocate Health Care. How would you describe the current state of community-based palliative care delivery in the United States?

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

Potential is mounting for deeper integration of palliative care delivery across the continuum, with some health care settings better poised than others for evolving opportunities. The Washington-based provider offers adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, grief support and senior living services.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

When deployed at scale, palliative care can help achieve many of the health care systems current goals, including reduced costs, improved patient satisfaction and quality of life. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) takes a multifaceted approach to further palliative care integration.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Though the numbers are still relatively low, spending on early palliative care rose between 2010 and 2019 for patients with advanced cancers, a recent study found. Early palliative care billing increased to 10.36%, up from 1.44% among 102,032 patients who received treatment from nearly 19,000 unique physicians.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For the time being, Medicare Advantage may be providers’ best bet for palliative care reimbursement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) also allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. The nation lacks a sufficient supply of palliative care professionals amid a swelling population of seriously ill patients, driving up demand.

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Hospice News

MAY 28, 2025

A bill currently before Congress seeks to overhaul aspects of the Medicare Advantage program. recently introduced the Medicare Advantage Reform Act. 3467, would make wholesale changes to the Medicare Advantage (MA). A key provision of the bill is a proposed requirement that MA plans pay for hospice care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Fraudsters misspend millions of Medicare dollars annually, though the actual hospice-specific amounts are difficult to determine, regulators previously told Hospice News. In the end, Medicare fraud costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year. Each dollar lost to fraud takes away resources intended for people with Medicare.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2025

Hughes outlined to Fluhart her industrys need for home-based palliative care, and after a number of communications, the two agreed to join forces to address the gap in services, with Fluharts business background complementing Hughess practical experience. Its all about relationships, Fluhart told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape.

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Hospice News

MAY 21, 2025

Fundraising has long been a necessity for many nonprofit care organizations to provide palliative care programs. This shortage of funds has made community-based palliative care into a loss leader for many organizations. We start with the story because palliative care is deeply personal, Johnson said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz has issued a public announcement warning against the most common tactics being employed by fraudulent hospice operators. Theres a Medicare scam out there that can really hurt people, Oz said in a social media post. Together, we can crush fraud, Oz said.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A moving target in palliative care delivery is whether or not these services should have a dedicated benefit in the Medicare system. Part of this question in palliative care is asking whether we are okay with the diversity of models. What we’ve seen grow is the interest in now defining a model for palliative care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Des Moines, Iowa-based WesleyLife at Home has launched the areas first home-based palliative care program. While analyzing their home health census, the organization identified a significant number of patients with chronic medical conditions who required an additional level of care. The goal is to eliminate barriers to care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Texas-based New Day provides home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services across 31 locations in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and in its home state. Bill is an icon in the industry and a staunch Medicare beneficiary advocate, always putting patients first and fighting for their rights and benefits.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2025

Hospice News: We’re going to be talking about the future of palliative care and how providers can innovate with technology. We provide palliative care to individuals currently living in the Western United States, in five states, including California. They think of palliative care as only hospice care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

He was so intrigued that he gathered a few volunteers and began Hospice of the Valley, which was largely a volunteer organization living off of a few grants here and there prior to when hospice Medicare reimbursement came around in the early 1980s. Where we started providing care is with adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider has seen a significant increase in demand for dementia care amid a growing population of seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions across its service region, which spans four counties in the state.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center is overhauling its Kidney Care Choices (KCC) payment model. Consequently, palliative care providers could see new payment pathways in certain geographic regions.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As opportunities to provide palliative care through Accountable Care Organization (ACO) relationships continue to arise, operators will likely need to understand the varying types of reimbursement that exist in that arena. Palliative care has such cost-savings potential.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

Congress has passed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act 2025 (FY2025) , which allowed for continuation of several public health, Medicare and Medicaid authorities and programs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) temporarily instituted waivers during the public health emergency.

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