Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced changes to the VBID model that included modifications to network adequacy requirements for Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) participating in the demonstration. These managed care organizations pay us significantly less than the traditional Medicare application.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Costs involved in a hospice-doula partnership Goodwin Hospice has a service agreement with Present for You that includes “on demand access” to EOLDs when a patient and family need arises, Klint explained. The doula services are supported through philanthropic donations and offered to patients and families as a complimentary service. “We

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Some of the common themes include the growth potential of these services, the need to adapt to changing payment models and the persistence of headwinds like the workforce issue and widespread misconceptions about palliative care. In addition to the expansion of existing programs, more are cropping up.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF). These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.” Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. There, she developed an infection and was readmitted, continuing the cycle.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act to the Senate designed to promote greater access to those services among Medicare beneficiaries. Another is allowing the definition of eligible providers of these services. Last week U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. Can you share what led to the start of your services?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Depending on how stakeholders play their cards, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) updated risk adjustment policy could lead to tightened belts — or a golden opportunity — for palliative care providers in Medicare Advantage. Much of the palliative care delivered to U.S. The agency is implementing a 3.3%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You have more money to pay them. That is, at the local level, how we address staffing shortages. That is, at the local level, how we address staffing shortages. Though many hospices have seen staffing volumes improve, competition for clinicians remains high and has providers grappling for ways to gain an edge.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extends the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in through 2023, providers are concerned about preserving patient choice and the nature of concurrent care. Another issue is the monopolistic concept of ‘pay-viders’, where the payer is also the provider. As the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

EOLDs have had a growing presence in the serious illness and end-of-life care space, but their services are not reimbursed by Medicare or other insurance, according to Jane Euler, co-founder and chief doula of Present for You LLC. There is no formal mechanism to provide payment for these important services under a fee-for-service system.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

These factors can weigh even heavier on access and quality of life for seriously ill children and their families in need of these services. While pediatric palliative care has been gaining recognition as a much-needed service the United States, the depth of community-based serious illness care is sorely lacking, according to Leonard.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Chapters provides hospice, palliative care and a range of other services throughout Florida. I’m sure one of the follow up questions would be how do you prioritize what initiatives to do right now, which opportunities present in 2024. If a legislative body approves more pay slots, go for it. What are your big priorities?

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MARCH 7, 2024

I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth? This is Eric Widera. John: Nice to be here.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Research is growing around how certain substances such as psychedelics and cannabis can aid in treating pain, anxiety, depression, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, migraines and other medical conditions. The key is to educate clinical staff on what is and is not permissible within their service regions, Dr. Michael D.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Hospices often lack the financial and staffing resources needed to fully support bereaved families.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. Countering this however, is the need for greater education for all stakeholders on the nature of these services and how they are distinct from hospice.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to modify rules for the four levels of hospice care, foster greater interoperability, examine nursing home relationships and other changes. “We The most common comment our hospice members hear from patients and families is “why didn’t I get your services sooner?”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nurses at PeaceHealth’s Sacred Heart Home Care Services have voted to authorize a strike, citing low wages and staffing strains. For many years, the nurses at Sacred Heart Home Care Services were there to pick up the slack,” Turner said in an ONA announcement. She is also a member of ONA’s executive committee at the health system.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We can continue to educate our communities and those that are not using our services to pay more attention to why hospice and palliative care are so important.” Research around hospice care has come a long way. But data gaps exist when it comes to expanding understanding of some aspects of end-of-life care delivery.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 3, 2023

To date, much of this has centered around diversified programs like palliative care, PACE and other services. However, the ongoing value-based insurance design model (VBID) demonstration and some Accountable Care Organization (ACO) relationships are giving providers a taste of how at-risk reimbursement may affect their core hospice business.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its 2025 proposed rule for hospice payment, which if finalized would include a 2.6% In addition to setting reimbursement rates, the rule indicated that CMS in 2025 will implement a new model for how it uses the wage index to inform payment rates for the coming years.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

But those providers’ experiences can lend some insights into how hospices can prepare themselves. To date, much of this has centered around diversified programs like palliative care, PACE and other services. To date, much of this has centered around diversified programs like palliative care, PACE and other services.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Materiality” generally means a misstatement or misrepresentation could have influenced Medicare’s decision to pay or deny the claim. Supreme Court precedent Universal Health Services v. For purposes of appellate review, we acknowledge that some of [ U.S. United States, ex rel. The current appellate case seeks to overturn that ruling.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Forging partnerships with health systems and physician groups has become a cornerstone of AccentCare’s growth strategy as it seeks to expand the breadth of this post-acute care services. We’ve been very successful over the course of last year, continuing to bring up both de novo hospices and de novo personal attendant services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hospice providers are hitting financial and regulatory walls when it comes to sufficiently covering the spectrum of services necessary to care for patients and families, according to Marian Grant, senior regulatory advisor at the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). of terminal diagnoses in 2020, while cancer accounted for 7.2%.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has launched a nationwide audit of general inpatient hospice services (GIP), citing that roughly one-third of providers improperly bill for these services. Meanwhile, the U.S. There is potential for someone to face federal charges for fraud.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires hospices to offer bereavement care for a minimum of 13 months following a patient’s death. Many providers extend this care to communities across their service regions, regardless of whether the deceased was a patient.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

And also that it’s a service available to those that have no insurance.” Capital Caring offers palliative services through its Primary Care at Home program. Most of these services are reimbursed by private insurance coverage or through Medicare or Medicaid payment avenues, Cone stated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“For them to start negotiating with Medicare Advantage plans, who at the same time are learning about a very unique and very different type of benefit, there would be challenges in terms of what’s covered and what is not; who’s in and who’s out; and how plans pay for this.” “It’s been a rocky road.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2022, the company rebranded as VyncaCare to reflect its broadened scope of clinical services. Its business model uses a mix of virtual palliative care, advance care planning, care coordination and symptom management services, among others. Can you tell me more about how the company has changed, especially during the past few years?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

This allows us to help our patients better understand heart failure and how to manage their symptoms in a way that achieves their goals.” Heart failure can significantly impact the daily life of our patients and symptoms can interfere with how individuals want to spend their time,” said Lambert.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

What was your experience in these two regards when it came to launching services in the past couple of years? He and co-founders Bishop Sandy McClain and André Lee, administrator, applied for a license to establish the hospice in 2020. Such changes would strike a balance between longer stays, quality and compliance.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

The nation is in need of a “total overhaul” in terms of how we think about caregiving and its place in the health care system, according to Sonya Dolan and BJ Miller, M.D., Around 30% of caregivers cover rent or mortgage payments for their loved ones, while 17% pay for medical costs, the AARP reported. founders of Mettle Health.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

While spiritual care falls under the bereavement assessment as part of the four core hospice services, reimbursement streams for chaplain staff are extremely shallow, according to George Handzo, director of health services research and quality at the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network. A shrinking labor pool.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It’s about] how to have a model where Medicare will pay for palliative care services outside of the hospice benefit,” Thompson said. “So, So, if you’re diagnosed with cancer, you have access to palliative care, to curative treatments, to whatever services you need. We have not solved this problem.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There’s a list of things that you’ve got to do well to succeed at fee-for-service. We know how to build strong branding. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently extended the program to 2030. Blustery fee-for-service headwinds However, value-based care is not the only driver of these partnerships.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

The channels for palliative care payment may be widening as more state legislators recognize growing demand for these services and start to weave them into Medicaid reimbursement. Torrie Fields, strategy advisor, Coalition to Transform Advanced Care However, differences exist in how these programs are defined and structured.

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