Hospice News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Collaboration with hospital discharge planners can help hospices ensure smoother care transitions and timely referrals. Securing timely referrals for eligible patients remains a challenge because many hospice patients receive care for only a few days prior to death.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Strong performance on the Hospice Care Index is becoming increasingly essential to securing payer and referral contracts and will be a key consideration in the federal government’s forthcoming Special Focus Program (SFP). The Hospice Care Index can be a referral driver. And they are looking at that data,” Huff said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

They are also not equipped to manage the increasing number of people that come in during their final phase of life.” It is crucial for emergency department staff to be trained to provide basic palliative care, whether it be pain and symptom management, or initiation of goals-of-care discussions, recognition of signs of impending death.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Establishing consistent relationships with referral sources will not only fill palliative care’s business pipeline, but they also allow providers to develop better delivery models to meet the needs of their partners and patients. PalliCare’s customized agreements with large physician groups differ from regular referrals, Hughes shared. “It

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2024

This followed a June 2023 push by one of Enhabit’s minority investors, AREX Capital Management, to pursue a sale or other alternative in a letter to the home health and hospice provider’s board of directors. Progress on the company’s goals has not been fast enough , CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer said at the time. AREX holds about 4.5%

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

From a cardiologist’s perspective or a primary care clinician’s perspective, there are some stigma related to referral to hospice and palliative care,” Schaefer told Hospice News. Kristen Schaefer, vice president and associate chief medical officer at Care Dimensions, indicated. Recently, the Chemed Corp.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Palazzo spoke with Hospice News about what it takes to market and grow a hospice business, with an emphasis on building relationships with referral sources and families. Families and referral sources need to believe in you, and the ability to deliver what you’re actually offering. That’s truly the difference.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Strains on reimbursement, referrals and staffing represent the biggest obstacles to palliative care providers’ viability and growth. It began with really good traction to our referral sources and creating efficiencies around interdisciplinary care management. About 41 states now have managed Medicaid.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2024

Some of these providers engaged in referral kickback schemes, enrolled patients who were not eligible for hospice and lied to them about being terminally ill. Some individuals also hold management positions at several of these hospices simultaneously. During 2023, 96 new hospices emerged in Texas, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Some organizations know how to go out and present information in a way that’s meaningful to referral sources, and others don’t. Payers and referral sources want to know more about a hospice’s performance before they decide to work together, Justis said. That just doesn’t really work anymore.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oncology nurses at cancer centers across the country are developing ways to improve palliative care referrals for seriously ill patients and families who could benefit from these services. A common thread woven through these referral strategies is expanding palliative care awareness among clinicians across the continuum.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Regulators are taking a closer look at how hospices pay their marketing and outreach workforces to curb fraudulent activity tied to referral streams. Wage structures for marketing staff should not have any ties related to referral volume, Persons indicated. Attorney in the Civil Division for the Northern District of Georgia.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Generally, this has not been treated as a priority by other emergency management entities as well, Dr. Janna Baker Rogers, a board-certified physician in both palliative and emergency medicine with West Virginia University Medical, said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Annual Summit.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

Collaborations between palliative and primary care providers may be on the rise, a trend that could give way to competitive edges around referral streams. Through the program, the hospice and palliative care provider has experienced a rise in referrals from primary care providers within its service area, Warpinski indicated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

Hospitalized cancer patients have a greater likelihood of receiving a hospice referral from a hospitalist than other physicians, recent research has found. Regardless of setting, hospices can benefit from strengthening referral relationships across the board of inpatient settings, Horn Prsic said. 31, 2022, a recent study found.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In addition to hospice and palliative care, the pediatric program also helps families with medication management and durable medical equipment (DME). Having a diverse and wide base of referral streams is an important growth lever for pediatric hospice and palliative care programs, according to Eaves.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

If your referrals are growing but your admissions are not, then why are you not bringing patients on to service? Hospices must be able to review their past referrals and assess what has changed: what has slowed, what has completely stopped. “I Examples of the information they’re searching for: Where are the referrals going?

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2023

Identifying patients and finding referral sources are two challenging issues when it comes to reaching homeless populations in need of hospice. Education for the staff who are going to be caring for this patient population, and education for the community partners who would be sending us these referrals.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Some of these providers engaged in referral kickback schemes, enrolled patients who were not eligible for hospice and lied to them about being terminally ill. Some of these providers engaged in referral kickback schemes, enrolled patients who were not eligible for hospice and lied to them about being terminally ill.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Poor sleep can exacerbate a range of chronic illnesses and intensify symptoms such as pain, depression and anxiety, a study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found. Likewise, insufficient management of those symptoms can in turn cause sleep issues. To address this issue, Bristol unveiled its Sweet Dreams program.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Combing through a hospice’s referral streams and financial or claims data can help identify potential compliance issues. They sometimes involve kickback schemes in which providers essentially bribe clinicians to get referrals. The question might be where are the referrals and revenue coming from?” said Kulik. “Is

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Others limit services to certain types of support for pain management. This broad brush can be confusing for referral sources, payers and patients and families who may not understand what they are getting or what else may be available to them.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

There’s increasing payer acceptance buying into the idea that palliative and hospice are cost-saving tools that help drive to improve patient outcomes, better manage chronically ill populations and reduce hospitalizations,” Tanquilut told Hospice News. Finding the right referral sources and referral relationships matters,” Tanquilut said.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

Speedy hospice patient admissions can lead to improved referral numbers, profitability and length of stay, recent data show Yet, hospices need to carefully navigate their patient admission processes to maximize their revenue. Referral-to-admission times can impact both their patient volumes and lengths of stay.

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JULY 13, 2022

How a hospice works with referral sources can be a red flag that brings providers face-to-face with criminal charges in False Claims Act (FCA) cases. That would be where a hospice is essentially paying for patient referrals just to sign people up for hospice and then not providing care, or it being conceived that way.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 11, 2023

Track and manage referral sources The goal when establishing a referral program is to generate frictionless cooperation between subcontracting nursing agencies and specialty pharmacies. By doing so, home infusion companies can improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and drive profitability.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Some of this is likely due to necessity as the nation strains to manage the extensive needs and expensive costs associated with the care of the growing chronically ill senior population. Others limit services to certain types of support for pain management.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2023

Providers who can leverage an arsenal of data to demonstrate above-the-line coordination across multiple complementary services will likely attract the interest of payers and referral sources. “My For Amedisys and Option Care Health, this transaction will open some of these doors a lot wider. For those firms, less is often more.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This year brought the return of Medicare sequestration, and pandemic-driven disruption in referral streams are lingering. Meanwhile, Enhabit Home Health & Hospice (NYSE: EHAB) is implementing a hospice-specific case management system that leaders expect will resolve some integration issues in acquired agencies and reduce turnover.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2024

In our hospice segment, our priority is growing census, which will allow us to gain operating leverage against the fixed cost structure associated with the case management staffing model,” Jacobsmeyer said. “To To complement our organic growth strategy in both segments, we continue to strategically reinvest for growth to our de novo strategy.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2022

We must manage those costs while also ensuring we can recruit and retain staff to service the volume demand in our markets.”. Enhabit recently began implementing a new staffing model aimed at improving patient caseload management and workforce costs. “We had an increased use of contract staff and market rate increases for nurses.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

From medication management to new technology adoption, he discusses some of the key trends for providers to watch in today’s hospice environment and explains how Enclara can help providers navigate them. Hospices were facing difficulties in referrals and patient enrollment. What role does your account management team play in all this?

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Nursing agencies can get their foot firmly into the door of the home infusion industry by becoming preferred referral partners for specialty pharmacies. And for agencies that can manage and fulfill this demand with efficiency, visibility and competency? Build an Efficient Referral Program.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Nursing agencies can get their foot firmly into the door of the home infusion industry by becoming preferred referral partners for specialty pharmacies. And for agencies that can manage and fulfill this demand with efficiency, visibility, and competency? They get more referrals than agencies that simply confirm they have capacity.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2023

“There are many benefits in allowing patients to seek palliative support through early referrals. A significant number of palliative care programs nationwide are supported through philanthropy, while others use the service as a loss leader that can help boost hospice referrals.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

Hospice News spoke with Belluomini about the ways executives with clinical experience help to foster growth, referral relationships and staff satisfaction. As we started to take pediatric and adult patients, we needed case managers for each side. Having manageable and sustainable growth also meant having work-life balance.

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

About 90% indicated that they would prefer to manage compliance internally but lack the time and staff to do so, according to survey results that in90group shared with Hospice News. Hospices, just like other health care providers, can’t knowingly pay for referrals. The government is always interested in enforcing that statute.”

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