Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is insufficient to support hospice patients’ care needs, a major industry group said. After a moratorium during the pandemic, full Medicare sequestration resumed on July 1, 2022. base payment rate increase recently proposed by the U.S. this year. “In increase.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Frontpoint, a portfolio company of Cimarron Healthcare Capital and Tacoma Holdings, is an emerging provider of home health, hospice, palliative and personal care with a focus on Medicare Advantage enrollees in Texas markets. Post-transaction, Frontpoint’s service area will reach more than 176 Texas counties.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2024 updates to the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model: care coordination, managing health equity-related risks and social determinants of health. Three principles are guiding the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

Patients may be receiving several visits from these professionals during the last days of life, or multiple visits on the same day, that do not count toward the measure, she said. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a financial incentive to foster better performance on the measure, the service-intensity add-on.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. In some instances, multiple hospices have been operating out of the same address without a corresponding increase in the population of eligible patients. This prompted the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled in July 2023. The model comes at a time when dementia-related illnesses are on the rise among hospice patients. Caregivers of patients with longer prognoses face difficult emotional challenges, including feelings of guilt, frustration and grief, she stated.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has ramped up auditing activity tied to longer stays and more expensive levels of care such as GIP. Hospices have encountered a variety of audit types as CMS contractors conduct post-payment reviews designed to recoup Medicare funds that may have been overspent.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2022

An overwhelming majority of hospice providers have seen costs of patient care rise 3% to 10% since 2019, and many expect further increases next year. This is prompting calls for Medicare to reconsider proposed 2023 reimbursement rates. . Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reassess the 2.7%

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Roughly one-third of Medicare claims for general inpatient hospice services (GIP) are billed in error, the OIG indicated. Common errors include billing for GIP services when hospice patients did not need this level of care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

The INPCS has made an Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care Neurology (EPEC-N) curriculum freely available on its website for anyone who wishes to access it, from providers to patients to family members. Medicare covers most expenses related to palliative care, but as with other health care services, reimbursement remains low.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

As more hospices engage with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, they may be able to learn from the experiences of some home health providers. Now, many operators are contracting with managed care plans for other service lines, such as palliative care, or they may be participating in the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The 2024 final hospice payment rule included a modest payment increase for general inpatient care (GIP) at a time when regulators are zeroing in on increased utilization and longer stays. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included in the rule a 1.031% increase to hospice GIP services.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2023

A little more than 31,000 Medicare patients in Kansas elected hospice in 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Between October 2021 and September 2022 nearly 50% of eligible patients who reside in the service area for St. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

In negotiations with Medicare Advantage plans, for instance, hospice and palliative care providers will need to demonstrate their performance in terms of star ratings, other quality metrics and reduced hospitalizations. “It’s sort of this chicken-and-the-egg thing with the data piece, which is tied to technology.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed palliative care providers to perform patient care visits virtually. Though initially the telehealth waivers weren’t intended to be permanent, they may have lasting impacts on palliative care delivery. During the pandemic, the U.S. In June U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has offered further guidance on what rules will change when the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) ends on May 11. As of May 11, hospices will have to ensure that volunteers provide at least 5% of patient care hours. When the PHE ends, the hotlines will be shut down.”

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

The company has about a dozen different insurance companies in its payer mix, in addition to Medicare and Medicaid. “We On a Part A benefit, you’re getting that benefit from Medicare, so you want to have like 80/20 Medicare versus private payers. We really haven’t come up with the perfect payer mix yet,” he said. “It’s

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

However, about 50% of community-based palliative care providers are hospices, according to the Center to Advance Palliative Care. Efforts have been underway among health care providers, state governments, advocacy groups and payers, among others, to make community-based palliative care more accessible to patients and families.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

The return of sequestration is adding to the financial storms brewing in hospice, as providers contend with rising costs of delivering patient care, inflation and lackluster reimbursement. After a moratorium during the pandemic, Medicare sequestration resumed July 1. It included a 2.7% per diem rate increase.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Hospice providers need to evolve with their changing patient populations and the larger health care system, according to Greg Hagfors, CEO of Partners In Care. Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Expanding its palliative care business is a rising priority for Amedisys Inc., The company’s palliative care strategy rests on the back of risk-based payment models, primarily Medicare Advantage, Kusserow indicated at the J.P. NASDAQ: AMED) following Chairman Paul Kusserow’s return as CEO. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2023

Another caregiving agency in the area serves patients on Medicaid or Medicare, but their availability is limited. Offering palliative care services through a hospital with tight finances is challenging because private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid do not always fully cover those services.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). We have to make sure this moment isn’t just a blip … but that it becomes part of how we approach our health care system and really embedded in everything we do.”. Diverse representation in staff translates to more inclusive patient care, she added. Effective Jan.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has honed in on hospice program integrity, rolling out a swath of new measures to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the space. A report from OIG found that roughly one-third of Medicare claims for hospice GIP services are billed in error, the OIG indicated.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

Our bedside providers in palliative care are actively involved with navigating individual patients’ care to manage avoidable hospitalizations and improve the quality of their homebound medical outcomes,” Tetzlaff told Palliative Care News. “An

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2023

Agencies that “do the best job” in the value-based landscape are those that include clinical capacity around patient care and related operational expenses in their cost delivery structures, Calcutt indicated. Two types of data are particularly crucial, the total cost of care and patient outcomes, he added.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) honed in on hospice program integrity through a number of new regulations, including some in the agency’s 2024 hospice final rule. The regulations focused on Medicare enrollment in an effort to stifle unethical or illegal activity in the space.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

SEIU analyzed Medicare claims data showing that the average hospice transfer rate among HCA hospital discharges was nearly 40% above the national average in 2021 and represented a 50% growth rate over four years. million Medicare beneficiaries elected the benefit in 2021, up from 1.43 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) program to refocus on expanding its home- and community-based services. Clients are seeing the value in our unique position: our ability to see patients in the home and refer them to care for the urgent needs we identify.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Some common risks associated with transitions of care, especially among patients receiving palliative support, include new or worsening symptoms, medication errors, miscommunication, follow-up gaps and patient disorientation.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Middlemen in any industry should be adding value, and that value should be measured in health care through the lens of whether it actually improves patient care, full stop.” Jain recently wrote about the influence of health care middleware companies in a column in Forbes.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

“Good hospices know their own systems’ capabilities and requirements, and seek partners who understand and can comply with those requirements while enhancing the delivery of patient care,” Natarajan told Hospice News in an email. How data privacy fits into tech relationships The U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“We have been serving the state of Wisconsin for many years, continuing our long tradition of exceptional patient care,” St. “That reputation of excellence leads more patients, families and facilities to seek our services.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

A pharmacist by trade, Ashworth most recently served as president and CEO of Tivity Health (NASDAQ: TVTY), a wellness solutions company that contracts with Medicare Advantage plans, where he was credited with achieving a 300% shareholder return. Previously, he was president of Walgreens Co.,

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

If they have not received intentional education about palliative care and the right clinical relationships within the ICU have not been developed, some ICU providers may view palliative care as antithetical to the work they are so rigorously and intentionally performing, emphasized a 2022 study co-authored by Ouchi.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The findings in this report reflect patients who received care in Calendar Year (CY) 2021, or Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, provided by hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Most beneficiaries switch to Traditional Medicare.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2023

Historically, home-based care and hospice providers have worked primarily within Medicare fee-for-service models. Now, health care companies will have to work with a broader range of entities in order to thrive, including private insurance plans, Medicare Advantage Organizations and Medicaid managed care.

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