Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The hospice and senior care provider Helios Care is partnering with the integrated health system Bassett Healthcare Network to bring more extensive access to hospice and palliative care to patients in central New York. Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

A primary care-led, integrated palliative program scaled across multiple geographies, care sites, and payers demonstrated higher quality care while lowering total cost of care. Researchers evaluated a scaled primary care-led, integrated palliative care program across multiple geographies, care sites and payers.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

A portfolio company of the private equity firm Towerbrook Capital Partners and the health system Ascension Health, Compassus provides a continuum of home-based services including home health, home infusion, palliative care and hospice from more than 250 locations across 29 states. He took the helm at the Compassus in 2022.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has honed in on hospice program integrity through a number of new regulations, including some in the agency’s 2024 hospice final rule. However, the regulatory attention may slow deals down, Triavo Partner Justin Rhodes indicated. “It’s

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

While some PACE programs are run by companies that have their own in-house palliative services, others who may lack that infrastructure are looking to partner with other providers, according to Ted Ferris, vice president of care innovations, Silverado Hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Both opportunities and challenges exist for hospice providers as regulators zero in on program integrity. Though greater transparency in hospice program integrity has opened the door to more patients in need of end-of-life care, she said. However, some fear that regulators’ responses could put a drain on employee retention and margins.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

There is really significant promise for palliative care integration in value-based care models.” In addition, the agency has integrated palliative care components into the hospice component of the Value-Based Insurance Design Model (VBID), often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The regulatory stakes are high for hospice providers when it comes to False Claims Act (FCA) violations, according to Jonathan Porter, partner at the law firm Husch Blackwell. Hospice program integrity concerns have heated up in recent years as regulatory watchdog groups hone in on fraud, waste and abuse in the industry.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Ultimately, we believe SSM Health is the right partner to ensure we’re able to continue meeting the growing and evolving needs of the individuals and families we serve.” SSM Health is a Catholic, nonprofit integrated health system with care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“As the dynamic health care environment continues to evolve, we want to make sure we keep our patients at the center of everything we do, and finding the right partner for this important, specialized work has been essential to ensuring continuity of care well into the future,” Don Kline, chief operating officer for BSMH, said in a statement. “We

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Post-acute nurse triage company IntellaTriage has secured growth investment dollars in a round led by Pacific Lake Partners. In addition to that, there’s several integrations that we’re evaluating right now with post-acute [electronic medical records (EMR)].

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Though relatively few home health agencies provide palliative care, those providers and their patients can benefit from more integration of those services. A rising number of providers are also partnering with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) or other entities that operate within risk-based payment models.

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AlayaCare

MAY 8, 2023

MONTRÉAL, QC— 9th May 2023 — AlayaCare , a SaaS end-to-end home and community-based care platform developer, today announced it is partnering with Carefor Health & Community Services, Eastern Ontario’s largest home and community care agency, to integrate AlayaCare Cloud. For more information, visit: www.alayacare.com.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

Silence on program integrity Providers are also in the dark regarding future regulatory action designed to reinforce program integrity in the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Another challenge is that, as proposed, telehealth reassessments are not permitted for the HOPE-based process measures.”

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

Last year saw a record-number of hospice deals, and many of those buyers focused on integrating those assets during the first quarter. South Carolina-headquartered Agape Care is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

In order to do that, we need an investment partner that was aligned and patient, that was willing to invest in innovation and take the time to let us build the systems to get there. We found that partner in Kaltroco. It’s complex, and it’s integrated through our provider network. Their interest went up.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2023

Maribel partners with health care providers to support their efforts to design and expand the services they offer in the home setting, including home health agencies, hospices, palliative care providers and health systems. Dr. Adam Groff and Dr. Ronald Paulus launched Maribel Health late in 2021.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Also important was the relationships that HPSC had developed with area health systems and other partners and referral organizations, Korte said. For now our focus is on integrating High Plains Senior Care into Frontpoint and focusing on de novos in the state of Texas,” Korte said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 2, 2024

That includes advanced communication skills, addressing nonphysical symptoms, care partners and caregiver burden.” The post Dana-Farber’s New Push to Integrate Palliative, Behavioral Services in Cancer Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Recent research has found that integration of palliative care can help improve access and outcomes among LGBTQ+ patients with serious and chronic illnesses. About 12% of these patients’ partners also reported mistreatment, and 10% stated their input on their partners’ health decisions was disregarded.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Health care workforce management company ShiftMed is partnering with Uber Health to offer transportation and other services as an employee benefit. Our integration enables this to happen seamlessly for clinicians and helps ensure clinicians are as productive as possible.”.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Now it’s really being an integrated approach.” Providers that have practitioners and the care models and are able to partner with entities that are either taking risk or responsible for managing lives, the consolidated total cost of care reduction has enough economics in it to fund this …” Westfall told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the provider, the benefits include deep clinical integration with the health system, exposure to health system-led innovation, and the benefits of delivering care under a unified health system brand.” A venture can often be disruptive for employees, community members, payors, or other partners engaging in a new partnership.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

South Carolina-headquartered Agape is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. Later that year, the company purchased Serenity Care and Integrity Hospice in separate transactions, both in the town of Dublin, Ga. Geography was a key consideration in their newest transaction.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

Through its partnership with CareSource, Radiant comes under the auspices of a Medicare Advantage payer, gaining access to its resources while retaining the partners’ status as an independent company. Among the partners, Metta has the most experience working in the home setting. Close to 31.5

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

This marks another milestone in Contessa’s strategy to build pathways for greater integration of home-based care and palliative services. Tennessee-based Contessa’s care model made it an attractive partner to Memorial Hermann Health System. Home health and hospice provider Amedisys acquired the company last June for $250 million.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

We’re going to horizontally integrate into all sorts of different areas of the hospital, ambulatory clinics and eventually in the home setting. We decided that one of the priorities was going to be to integrate palliative care as part of these providers’ teams to make sure that these patients with the most high-risk diseases,” he said. “We

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

We talked about how to integrate health equity research into neuropalliative care,” Creutzfeldt explained. “We We had family care partner representatives who told us their stories and why it’s important to include them in our research.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2023

Technology firms Empathy and Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) have partnered to expand the benefits that companies can offer to bereaved employees. Integrating the two systems will help connect grieving employees with much needed resources, according to Empathy CEO Ron Gura. “A

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This has led to more hospitals, payers, large health systems and home health companies to make end-of-life and serious illness care a pillar of their growth strategies, according to Steven Yecies, managing partner at the private equity firm Kain Capital.

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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. Program integrity audits can have the largest financial exposure for a hospice,” Pekarske previously told Hospice News in an ELEVATE podcast episode.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Heightening oversight has focused on hospice program integrity efforts, as well as increased auditing activity , changes in rules for hospice sales and financial penalties tied to quality reporting measures. Having an adaptable approach to compliance is key in an evolving hospice regulatory environment.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2023

Hospice program integrity has been in the spotlight for at least the past two years, often with high financial stakes for providers. Unified Program Integrity Contractor (UPIC) and Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) audits are designed to key regulatory safeguards against bad actors in the hospice industry.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

The nonprofit hospice provider’s subsidiary — Care Guide Partners — has applied to the U.S. PACE is not the only plan that Hosparus has in mind for Care Guide Partners. It is also expanding its palliative care services through that and another subsidiary, Pallitus Health Partners.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

Interest in hospice remains high, but the home health’s profile is rising faster in today’s market, according to Joel Rhodes, partner at the M&A advisory firm Triavo Health. After 2023’s slump, PE firms have been sitting on more than $800 million in dry powder, according to data shared with Hospice News by The Braff Group.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The company’s clients and partners include a number of hospice providers, including Compassus , one of the 10 largest hospice providers in the United States, as well as the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The average cost to the bereaved exceeds $12,000.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The needs of today’s seriously ill patients necessitates the development of new, longitudinal care models that integrate the patient-centered principles of hospice and palliative care, Dr. Darren Schulte, CEO of VyncaCare, told Hospice News. We have different arrangements to be the easiest to work with for our partners.

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