Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) floated the possibility of a combination in March in light of their existing, highly collaborative working relationship. Lloyd, president and CEO, Delaware Hospice, Inc.

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MARCH 1, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! Frontpoint Health has completed its acquisition of the Texas-based home health and hospice company High Plains Senior Care Group (HPSC).

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. PACE Center, we embark on a new chapter to revolutionize health care accessibility and enhance the quality of life in the communities we serve,” Cook said in an announcement.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The hospice, palliative care and personal care provider Gentiva has agreed to acquire Heartland Hospice and other assets from the home-based care company ProMedica. The Atlanta-based provider emerged from the former hospice and personal care segments of Kindred at Home. NYSE: HUM) for $2.8

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Carelon is the health care services brand of the insurance company Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV), previously known as Anthem. CareMore, also an Elevance subsidiary, provides advanced primary care to more than 100,000 Medicare Advantage and Medicaid patients in nine states, as well as offering palliative care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

To date, much of this has centered around diversified programs like palliative care, PACE and other services. Home health value-based purchasing Home health providers have two primary inroads to value-based care — HHVBP and Medicare Advantage. Hospices are only now taking their first steps into value-based reimbursement.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

Washington-headquartered Family Resource Home Care recently acquired personal care provider Companion Care, Inc., Family Resource provides end-of-life, respite and personal care, along with services such as medication management, meal preparation, housekeeping, companionship and dementia support.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Texas-headquartered Choice Health at Home has entered the personal care space with the acquisition of Instant Care of Arizona for an undisclosed sum. More than 58% of Medicare descendants in Arizona elected hospice during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The state is one of three in which Addus offers its trifecta of business lines — personal care, home health and hospice. This acquisition is commensurate with our growth strategy to leverage our strong personal care presence and add clinical services.”. for an undisclosed sum. for $85 million earlier this year.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For starters, the company is going full-speed ahead on palliative care, delivered through its subsidiary Contessa Health. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based home health and hospice provider is adapting to the shifting needs of patients and the health care system, according to Kusserow. in 2022, compared to $6.34 million to $562.0

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Dallas-headquartered AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, offering hospice, palliative care, personal care, non-medical services, home health, care management and high-acuity home care. We do have palliative care and a fairly significant palliative care practice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

South Dakota-based Avera@Home recently formed a joint venture with personal care provider Kore Cares in a move that grew its service line and geographic reach in the state. It had long partnered with Kore Cares before officially joining forces. It had long partnered with Kore Cares before officially joining forces.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

Case in point, the Providence Institute for Human Caring last year launched a tele-palliative care program aimed at addressing rural patients’ unmet needs. palliative?care care services for?patients For starters, rural regions are less likely to have a Medicare-certified hospice than urban counties.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Now, with our 10 locations statewide, coupled with a strong, solid network of caregiving professionals throughout all our service areas, we are well-positioned to meet the home health care and hospice needs of Texans.”. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in the state runs high and reached 52.1%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In addition to traditional home-based services like hospice, home health, and personal care; community-based palliative care is on the rise, as are emerging high-acuity models like hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home programs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

. “WelbeHealth is delivering critical services to vulnerable seniors and their family members like memory care rooms and transportation,” Meg Barron, executive director at WellbeHealth, said in a statement. The inpatient center has provided care to nearly 11,258 patients and families since opening in 1997. The hospice’s W.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits. Closing these gaps is a rising priority in payment model demonstrations by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The organization also plans to add home health, medical services, grief care, personal care, and its Empath Partners in Care (EPIC) services, designed to care for HIV/AIDS patients. Bringing our full life care to the residents of Hillsborough County is an honor and a privilege,” Rafael J.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

SCAN Group is executing a service diversification strategy designed to identify and address unmet needs of the California-based Medicare Advantage Organization’s beneficiaries. For anyone who is frail or vulnerable, [addressing NEMT needs] is reducing one barrier to actually accessing care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Under Kusserow, Amedisys also expanded its care continuum from home health and hospice to include palliative care, personal care, hospital-at-home and skilled-nursing-facility-at-home. Factors such as the return of 2% Medicare sequestration and a 62-cent increase in costs-per-visit also impacted earnings.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

“Their culture and approach to quality patient care are a great fit with what we have established at Fortis Health.” Fortis Health Fortis Health Rob Radics, CEO, Fortis Health Fortis offers home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services across its footprint. This is up from 16.4% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Atlanta-based provider emerged from the former hospice and personal care segments of Kindred at Home. ProMedica’s former palliative care business will operate under Gentiva’s Empatia Palliative Care brand. CDR in 2022 purchased a 60% stake from the insurance mammoth Humana, Inc., NYSE: HUM) for $2.8

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Integrating care models could help save money downstream, according to Katherine Suberlak, vice president of clinical services at Oak Street Health.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Though utilization runs low compared to other states, the need for hospice care is high in Hawaii. Hospice utilization in Hawaii reached 45.4%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Advocating for a comprehensive approach to hospice care. This entails closer integration with palliative care and innovative payment models that allow for holistic, end-of-life care. Despite the margin pressures witnessed in home health, this shift opens doors to value-based arrangements for end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

I have channeled my passion for working with underserved communities, beginning as a licensed social worker for a large hospital system, where I experienced firsthand the disparities in healthcare access and limitations in delivering whole-person care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

Hospices have relied on data to enhances their ability to assess the quality and quantity of bedside care delivered during a patients’ final days. This includes two key quality measures: Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life (HVLDL) and the Hospice Care Index (HCI).

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Hospice of the North Coast

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Hospice services enhance patient comfort with effective symptom and pain management, support family members emotionally and spiritually, and offer advance care planning to uphold patient wishes. Understanding Hospice Medicare Benefits Hospice care is covered by Medicare, with specific benefits and coverage guidelines for eligible patients.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

.” – Jim Palazzo, CEO, Transitions Care “I was interested in PACE services just because of the similarity that it has to hospice care and the need that it fills, often for some of the poor folks in a community. Because most of the individuals accessing PACE are going to be Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Uncertainty earlier this year around Medicare’s proposed 2023 home health payment rates led some stakeholders to expect a swerve towards hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in August proposed a 4.2% aggregate cut in the home health base rate, reported Hospice News sister publication Home Health Care News.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

Control of these assets also allows payer organizations to better manage the financial risks that come with the value-based payment models that many expect will overtake traditional Medicare in coming years. The full impact of these deals will take shape over the next few years.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 6, 2024

Furthermore, documenting decline is not only for ensuring quality care but also for meeting Medicare documentation requirements for hospice eligibility and recertification. Most importantly, it’s about creating a vivid, comprehensive narrative that confirms the patient’s need for hospice care under Medicare guidelines.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They were 37% more likely to say they needed more help with personal care. Families who said the hospice referral occurred too late were 119% more likely to express concerns about care coordination. Medicare Policies. Medicare and most other insurances require that people not receive cure-oriented care while in hospice.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Nurses usually visit once a week to check their patient’s status and make changes to their care regiment. Personal care support aides can provide non-medical care for your loved one. Physician services : Physicians help oversee the care of hospice patients. . Personal care and homemaker services.

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JULY 12, 2022

But the decision is also empowering, because an array of supportive care and assistance becomes available to both the patient and family. Home health aides for personal care. Spiritual care, whether religious/spiritual related or a life review. Hospice is a vastly underused Medicare benefit in the United States.

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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. We know about 50% of all Medicare beneficiaries who are eligible for hospice care receive it.

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