Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Gross Domestic Product price index rose 7.1% But medical price inflation rose by only 3.2% The rate of medical inflation was lower than that for the economy at large in 2022. last year, after seeing 4.6% growth in 2021.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2023

Our results are not explained by the geographic regions the hospices operate in, or by the types of patients they care for,” lead author Rebecca Anhang Price, senior policy researcher at RAND, said in a statement. Not all for-profit hospices provide poor quality,” Anhang Price said. However, this trend was not universal.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the ways contract nursing companies have done business during the past two years, including accusations of price gouging. If enacted, GAO would examine travel nursing agency pricing and seek to determine if these companies contributed to the workforce shortage. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.)

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

The pricing issue has been a sticking point for VITAS in the past. Even during the record-high flurry of M&A activity between 2019 and 2022, the company abstained from making deals.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2023

Restoring price stability will likely require that we maintain a restrictive stance of monetary policy for some time,” Powell told the Senate committee. Restoring price stability is essential to set the stage for achieving maximum employment and stable prices over the longer run.”

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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2023

per Amedisys share, based on Option Care Health’s May 2 closing stock price. Amedisys stock price has taken a beating over the past couple of years, which has made it a very attractive target from a pricing standpoint. During the past 12 months, Amedisys’ stock prices have see-sawed from a high of $131.32

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Indeed, VBID represents the first time that hospices have had to compete based on price, according to Schramm. These relationships can help generate cost savings and bolster hospices’ bargaining power. The big centralized hospices are able to consolidate their back office expenses. They can enforce cost efficiencies.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

In its letter, AREX pushes Enhabit to consider strategic alternatives because of the company’s “poor operational and share price performance.” Since the start of the year, Enhabit’s share price has fallen 7% to just over $12 per share – down significantly compared to when the company first separated from Encompass.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In the midst of this, hospice and home health M&A continues to outpace other health care sectors in deal volume despite the large price tags, propelled by favorable demographics, rising demand for care in the home, and the promise of cost savings. Among these is VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2023

(NASDAQ: PNTG) is on the hunt for hospice acquisitions as previously record-high price tags in the market trend downward. The home health, hospice and senior living company aims to pursue acquisition opportunities across all of its service lines.

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Today's Caregiver

JUNE 1, 2023

If there’s one thing we can count on to happen year after year, it’s a rise in the cost of living.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

APRIL 14, 2024

New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the price of in-home care for the elderly increased by 14.2 I think if any (or all) of these three possibilities are the reality, then we would feel better about the price increase. Last week, I shared that it’s time for transparency in pricing for the services we pay.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Over the last decade, we have seen that our disciplined approach to pricing has created unique opportunities for local leaders to generate solid financial returns,” Guerisoli said. More transactions are likely on the way, Guerisoli indicated in the earnings call. “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The project, including construction, came with an estimated price tag between $10 million and $12 million. Pandemic related headwinds delayed the project, including soaring prices for protective personal equipment and staff travel expenses, Roque-Velasco said. It was a labor of love, but truly a dream come true.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Price of Partnership When it comes to funding a joint venture, an investment must come from a partner willing to bring the capital to the relationship, such as a private equity or a corporate partner. “So Those funds need to be fair-market tested to ensure an arms-length relationship.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2023

But it’s a matter of finding an attractive asset at an appropriate price. Some are going to face some issues with the [Medicare Advantage (MA)], and particularly Medicare pricing, that the volume may just become available for us in the market.” I think that M&A continues to be an important part of our growth strategy.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2023

On the other side, relying on past price tags and margins can be a slippery slope in knowing how far up or down to adjust a hospice multiple when it’s brought to the sellers’ table, he stated. Getting to the bottom line of hospice figures has been a particularly challenging feat as valuations hover near record highs in recent years.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

The high demand and low supply is also driving up drug prices for providers, even as rising fuel and labor costs make shipping and delivery more expensive. Multiple manufacturers are competing solely on cost, so prices actually tend to trail inflation,” Marisa Todd, PharmD, clinical pharmacy lead at Enclara Pharmacia, told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2024

The post VITAS Closes $85M Covenant Health Transaction appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2022

We have significant price increases. One of the key concerns for both hospices and the clinical workforce is the price of gasoline, which surged upwards following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Retail gas prices rose 19.3% Some of the pressures — we do have inflation. Department of Labor.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2023

In its letter, AREX pushed Enhabit to consider strategic alternatives because of the company’s “poor operational and share price performance.” Since the start of the year, Enhabit’s share price has fallen more than 7% to less than $12 per share – down significantly compared to when the company first separated from Encompass.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

The “very high” pricing of hospice assets was among the main reasons that the company saw de novos as “the best market entry strategy,” Westfall previously stated at the time. “We Market valuations have since dampened, but remain relatively high.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2022

Humana in April signed a definitive agreement to sell a 60% stake in Kindred at Home to private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR) for a price tag of $2.8 The transaction is not expected to have any impact on the price of or access to health care services within Oregon.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2022

“[Hospices’] reliance on Medicare, along with a set per-diem payment makes hospice providers uniquely dependent on Medicare for most of the reimbursement and leaves no room for negotiation on price.”. Medicare covers close to 90% of hospice organizations’ patient care revenue. Effective April 1, CMS began a 1% withholding.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Turnover expenses often carry a more expensive price tag than recruitment and retention costs, Linton said. Others are really a philosophical change in the way we operate, and that doesn’t come with a daily price tag,” Linton told Hospice News. “We We know that cost.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

NASDAQ: AMED) — with price tags that reached $5.4 The change in leadership comes on the heels of Optum Health’s growing presence in the hospice and home health landscape. The company has acquired two of the nation’s largest providers — LHC Group and Amedisys Inc. billion and $ 3.3 billion , respectively.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

APRIL 28, 2024

Resources Our Caregiving Mentor and Professional Listening Artist programs are available for a Pay What You Want price point through May 2. Professional Listening Artists offer a valuable, accessible service at an affordable price. So we live the hot mess day in and day out. What a mess. Image by 12019 from Pixabay.)

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2023

As for potential home health acquisitions, we believe larger opportunities will be more numerous in the coming months as pending CMS pricing updates and proposals are better understood, and as sellers pricing expectations rationalize.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

per Amedisys share, based on Option Care Health’s May 2 closing stock price. Under the current agreement, Amedisys stockholders would receive 3.0213 shares of Option Care Health common stock for each share of Amedisys common stock they hold at the closing of the transaction. This is equivalent to $97.38

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

In addition to the previously mentioned factors, wage hikes and soaring gas prices have raised staffing costs for providers. Prices and demand for personal protective equipment likewise remain high. Sequestration helped to create a “perfect storm” of financial pressures for providers, she continued.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 4.9% “NHPCO heard from hospice providers throughout the country with concerns about the 2.8% year-over-year in April 2023. Hospice providers have also reported significant wage increases required to address competition for health care workers.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2024

As a group, public company performance and share price serve as a proxy for industry performance and investor sentiment, respectively,” Mertz Taggart indicated in a report.

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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

The most common violations of the law come in the forms of price fixing, bid rigging and market allocation activities among competitors in a sector, according to the Justice Department. Lopez and his co-conspirators allegedly participated in a series of meetings and communications to fix wages of nurses.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

While labor prices aren’t the only expenses that have been going up, they are among the largest for hospices. Many providers have had to offer substantial sign-on and retention bonuses to remain competitive in the marketplace —costs that some hospice leaders have described as “ astronomical.”

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

However,] hospice prices and multiples continued to rise for many properties, and remain stable for others, even if they experienced some operational or other challenges.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The company had a rough third quarter as labor shortages constrained its ability to take on new patients, contributing to lower-than-expected revenue growth and falling stock prices. Year to date, the company’s stock has fallen nearly 50%. Amedisys’ net service revenue reached $558 million in Q3, up 1% from the prior year’s quarter.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

Price tags for hospice assets have been breaking records during the past three years. These transactions allow a hospice to expand to new markets while deploying a smaller amount of capital. Hospice multiples reached a record-high of 26x in 2020, reported PwC’s Health Research Institute.

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