Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

After more than a decade working in hospice leadership, Alli Collins came across something she had never seen before — a financially viable, all-volunteer provider that is not Medicare-certified. I’ve spent well over a decade in the Medicare-certified side of the world. She never instituted a Medicare provider number.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since at least 2022, Contessa has been pursuing palliative care reimbursement through Medicare Advantage. Earlier this year, the Amedisys subsidiary entered into its first full-risk Medicare Advantage contract to include palliative care with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee. based research and consulting firm ATI Advisory.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Roughly 82% of Medicare decedents in 2018 were Caucasian, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. The issues identified in the report exist across the country. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking. Some participants said they couldn’t receive hospice or palliative care when they needed it.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care. Palliative care is an evolving field. Rising demand In 2024, demand will continue to rise, driven by a number of factors.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Dr. William Collinge, associate director of the Integrative Palliative Care Institute in Washington, said most palliative care organizations evolved as basic, mainstream medical care provided by doctors, nurses and social workers. The integrative model highlights an ongoing evolution. Would that help my loved one?’

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act to the Senate designed to promote greater access to those services among Medicare beneficiaries. Social workers are probably the most positioned for these kinds of conversations. Warner (D-Va.) Similar legislation was introduced in the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

Medicare reimbursement is the lifeblood of hospice providers, and a clear understanding of policies like budget neutrality can help elucidate the payment systems that keep their businesses running. But a similar move within the Medicare Hospice Benefit is unlikely. Though the is not yet final, the proposal included a 4.2%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Insurance companies and Medicare are also starting to recognize the cost savings and improved patient outcomes the clinics can provide. “I To meet growing demand, more outpatient palliative care clinics and programs are cropping up. The patient will then be referred to an outpatient clinic or home-based provider for further care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

The cost of these services facilitated by a registered nurse was $395 per caregiver, compared to $337 and $585 if offered by a social worker or nurse practitioner, respectively. When TCM is offered on its own, the mean Medicare reimbursement ranged between $260 and $322 and $260 for families with moderate or high complexity patients.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

High Peaks Hospice has an immediate opening for a Hospice Social Worker in our northern catchment area. As a member of the Hospice interdisciplinary team, the primary focus of the Social Worker is to respond to the emotional and psychological needs of the patients, their families, and hospice staff. 454 Glen street.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The company is a value-based organization that partners with primary care physicians nationwide to jointly take on the total cost and quality of care for their senior patients through Medicare Advantage or the the U.S. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The unit includes an interdisciplinary care team with physicians, advanced practice providers and social workers who will deliver the same level of care that a patient would receive in their home or a clinical office, according to Liesl Vale, marketing coordinator for Four Seasons. “The

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Individually, palliative care and social determinants programs both have the potential to improve quality of life and reduce costs — but that potential may be greater when the two are combined. Social and economic factors like these drive 40% of health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

Payers, including Medicare, like to see providers reduce the costs of care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reimbursed palliative care through a fee-for-service model that only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services, rather than the full range of interdisciplinary care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The palliative care space is at an inflection point at which unprecedented awareness and demand are fueling growth that could be hampered by limited reimbursement and staffing shortages. Palliative Care News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most impactful forces that will shape the space in the coming year.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2022

One is how can we continue to diversify our services and help more people in more ways — and second, looking at how we can reduce our dependence on Medicare reimbursement. One of the things that we’re doing also is launch our new program on social isolation and loneliness with the frail elderly. So what do we do?

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

The health care startup currently provides interdisciplinary services in 28 states to 30,000 seniors who suffer from chronic health conditions and social determinants issues. As the demand for palliative care continues to grow, so too has the way businesses have bolstered their programs to better serve patients.

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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

In the past year, the organization has grown its interdisciplinary team with the addition of a new social worker and three registered nurses, Wood River indicated in a recent newsletter. Wood River reportedly provides care free of charge and does not bill insurance companies or Medicare. We are working with St. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reimbursed palliative care through a fee-for-service model that only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services, rather than the full range of interdisciplinary care. The United States lacks a robust reimbursement system for palliative care. Historically, the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Though regional variations exist, some palliative care delivery challenges are nearly universal for providers across the globe. Palliative care providers worldwide stand to benefit from sharing “lessons learned” to address common pain points. Increasing goals of care conversations among patients and families is another. “It

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Palliative care is provided by a specialty-trained team of doctors, nurses, social workers, and chaplains who work together with a patient’s other treating clinicians to provide an extra layer of support. health care workforce with the skills necessary to care for seriously ill patients and their families.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

On the patient side, Medicare beneficiaries face out-of-pocket costs when advance care planning is performed in any setting outside of an annual wellness visit. Currently, this includes only physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, along with clinical social workers. “If

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Oncology practices have increasingly collaborated with palliative care providers — or built their own service lines — to better support cancer patients throughout their health care journeys. Integrating palliative care deeper into oncology practices “empowers” these providers to improve utilization and quality, she indicated. An estimated 1.9

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A group of health plans, policymakers, and insurance companies recently told the Center for Medicare & Medicare Innovation (CMMI) that they needed a standardized definition for palliative care in order to improve access. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have introduced a bill designed to foster greater access to advance care planning (ACP) among Medicare beneficiaries. The new bipartisan legislation would allow clinical social workers to provide ACP services if they possess a relevant certification or are experienced in conducting care planning conversations.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2023

The company did receive some funding from the state of New Jersey to fund the social worker portion of the Chronic Illness Support model. The company is open to taking part in value-based programs such as Medicare Advantage plans, Goldfine said. “We That has made a difference in how the model is accepted, she said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Current reimbursement structures within the federally established Medicare Hospice Benefit do not sufficiently support the level of care needed in rural-based communities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). House of Representatives’ Ways and MeansCommittee.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act would expand utilization of these services by removing Medicare payment barriers faced by both providers and patients. The bill proposes to “wave,” or remove, Medicare beneficiary cost-sharing for advance care planning services. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2023

Researchers analyzed 2020 claims data to identify associations between SIA utilization and hospice Medicare beneficiaries’ characteristics such as site of service, level of care and length of stay, among others. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced SIA in 2016.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

About 18% of hospices nationwide operated in rural areas in 2021, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Things that are unique for rural and frontier providers are trying to find qualified staff, registered nurses, physicians, social workers or spiritual care providers,” Wood said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Their care model is interdisciplinary, including nurse practitioners, social workers and chaplains. Meanwhile, the ACO began looking at decedent data among its Medicare-shared savings population and compared those who had received home-based palliative care to those that had not.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We have an inpatient hospice unit at our university, and at times you have to go to families and say, “They’re kind of stable, so Medicare is not going to allow this or pay for this. I was a hospice manager, and I had the philosophy, first, that social workers are a lot cheaper than nurses.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. But clinical education will need a much larger boost to ensure a sustainable workforce, according to many providers.

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