Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

“CMS, in its efforts to catch fraudulent providers casts a wide audit net that often ensnares hospices who aim to operate ethically and prioritize patient care,” Harrison said. For the providers, the audit process is cumbersome, adding significant costs, time, and burdens that ultimately take time away from patient care.”

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

“The unique nature of working from your home — our settings [and] our beloved companion animals — invites similar sharing from the people we care for as they let us into the things that matter most of them [and] that make the most difference.”. Yoda began to show a lot of interest in talking and interacting with patients early on, said Mize.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

NAHC NAHC NAHC President Bill Dombi 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.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Signatories also included the Alliance, LeadingAge, the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), the National Coalition for Hospice & Palliative Care, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and chaplain and nursing associations, among others.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

The reduced capacity has some hospice providers furrowing their brows with the return of the requirement that volunteers provide a minimum of 5% of hospice patient care hours. Volunteers can also help perform administrative tasks related to daily care, such as assistance with patient charting audits.

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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.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

Hamad will be responsible for implementing new technologies at the hospice organization that create operational efficiencies, improve patient care delivery and support its strategic initiatives. We welcome Mohamad Hamad to our senior leadership team,” Parsons told local news.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The partners also pool clinicians together to provide education and to deliver patient care, which has contributed to the program’s sustainability as well as the return on investment equation, according to Goldstein.

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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. Medicare covers close to 90% of hospice organizations’ patient care revenue. This is prompting calls for Medicare to reconsider proposed 2023 reimbursement rates. .

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The inpatient cap limits the number of days of inpatient care for which Medicare will pay to 20% of a hospice’s total Medicare patient care days, according to OIG. If GIP billing exceeds that metric, the hospice must refund those payments to Medicare.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Compassion provides us with a high-quality hospice operation in East Texas, where New Day currently has significant market share in both personal care and skilled care services,” New Day Chief Development Officer Matthew Griffith said in a statement. The following year, the company secured $55.5

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“We have now generated nine quarters of sequential net growth in licensed health care workers and eight quarters of sequential growth in ADC. We are extremely optimistic about the ability of VITAS to maintain an above average historical growth, both organically and through potential acquisitions over the next few years.”

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

“You see burnout when clinicians don’t have that connection with the patients or that sense of purpose and value that you are actually contributing and moving the needle on patient care. You don’t want them to feel micromanaged, you want them to feel supported.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Silverado clinicians are using the systems to identify unmet patient care needs before they reach a crisis point. Likewise, solutions that can reduce time spent on administrative tasks like documentation allows clinicians to “deliver care to the person, not a keyboard,” Wilson told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“HOPE items are designed to collect patient-specific data in real-time, based on interactions with the patient and family/caregiver, and with flexibility to accommodate patients with varying clinical needs,” CMS indicated in the guidance.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Benson explained that palliative care operators can collaborate with referral partners and other providers by participating in care conferences to align patients’ care plans, coordinating medical treatments and interventions, and sharing resources to support a multidisciplinary approach.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Mid-Delta Hospice has a very special history and outstanding reputation for delivering exceptional patient care throughout the great state of Mississippi,” Mauricio said. The hospice’s established presence in the state and their reputation for quality were main drivers of the acquisition, according to Mauricio.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 21, 2022

This can lead to a decrease in the quality of patient care. One of the major scheduling problems for infusion nurses is managing the difference between care time , when infusion nurses are actively treating patients, and on-going time, when they simply monitor patient care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2019, leaders set up a collaborative with researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health to diversify patient-care perspectives. Now we’re trying to understand how to integrate that into our training and in our workflow so that we’re thinking about that,” he said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

Patient care is at the bedside, and I believe, as a clinician myself, that the more your bedside staff know and understand the ‘why’ — the expectations, metrics, and requirements of their role — the more they can buy in and support the process, which ultimately means providing the best possible care for their patients,” True says.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2024

This settlement reinforces the importance of holding accountable health care providers who seek financial gain above quality patient care.” Attorney Andrew Luger for the District of Minnesota. The post Intrepid USA Settles FCA Allegations for Home Health, Hospice Claims appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2022

Hospices need to improve staff awareness and training around these health care disparities, and also put mechanisms into place that ensure accountability for better patient care and family support, according to Chambers. But these efforts can sometimes fall short in creating effective and lasting change.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We saw a dire need to quickly collect data, investigate it and identify opportunities to increase efficiency, allowing hospice leaders to ultimately focus their attention on enhancing patient care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“Our care teams focus on improving quality of life, providing not only physical care but also emotional and spiritual support. We look forward to partnering closely with other mission-driven organizations in Wisconsin to provide exceptional patient care through shared knowledge and best practices.”

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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.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

“Helios Care is thrilled to work with Bassett Healthcare Network on this innovative initiative,” Dan Ayres, president and CEO of Helios Care, said in a press release. The post Helios Care Partners with Bassett Healthcare to Expand Hospice, Palliative Services appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

These application triggers included the co-location of multiple hospices at single address, a single hospice administrator overseeing multiple hospices, a patient care manager or other hospice leadership staff serving multiple hospices, and a hospice company that “appears to be hidden behind a shell company,” according to the group statement.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

There’s a number of them, actually, which are quite concerning and require action actually to have good patient care continue. One is the face-to-face recertification for hospice patients, and also just the current telehealth flexibilities that have been in place since the pandemic are set to expire at the end of this year.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Other hospices have leveraged remote patient monitoring systems, integrated electronic health records (EHR), and predictive analytics. In essence, we work in a more proactive way that speeds everything up and removes the distractions of the day-to-day minutia so our agency staff can focus on direct patient care.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

“The home-based care community is very fortunate to welcome Dr. Steve Landers as the new CEO of the Alliance,” Westfall told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

Training that creates comfortable spaces for providers to learn about types of biases and how these may impact patient care are also imperative and [we] should normalize this, while providing techniques to work past them. Creating comfortable spaces for employees to be themselves can trickle down into patient care.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Dallas-based home health and hospice provider has placed retention among its top three priorities, behind patient care and quality, he said. Onboarding is key AccentCare’s retention investments have included new onboarding processes and training development programs for new hires, among others, Miller stated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Nevertheless, the primary focus for surveyors should be on direct patient care, per CMS. CMS said that reviewing certain documents and information that identify key managers, services and locations is “essential.”

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. “I Much of the regulatory activity was spurred by a rash of new providers that emerged predominantly in four states : California, Arizona, Texas and Nevada.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

These operators get into hospice for the “wrong reasons” that focus solely on profit and not on patient care, the CEO said. In some cases, CONs can lead to market monopoly in which one or few providers hold all the keys that unlock patient access, one hospice CEO stated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“We identified the contributing factors to that lower cost and, just to name a few, they were higher penetration rates and lower length of stay between admission to palliative care services.” The system includes 220 patient care locations, eight hospitals, a regional behavioral health organization and a regional home-based care agency.

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