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APRIL 15, 2024

Demand is growing faster than the supply in terms of specialty and palliative care providers. Looking ahead, to overcome these disparities we need to implement incentives for conditions to practice in underserved areas and expand rural poverty care programs,” Chen said.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Better management of symptoms ICUs sustain the lives of critically ill patients with specialized care while treating underlying life-threatening conditions. The cost-savings of palliative care Integrating palliative care training and support may be an initial investment, but could offer long-term cost-savings.

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JUNE 14, 2023

A growing number of patients with various dementia-related conditions will need end-of-life care in coming years. Dr. About 1 in 9 seniors will have a dementia-related condition by 2050, representing roughly three-quarters (73%) of the nation’s overall aging population, according to a 2023 report from the Alzheimer’s Association.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

This approach has demonstrated to be “the most effective” in terms of addressing grief, as opposed to individuals taking these substances without clinical guidance, Moss said. Much of the existing data centers around the impacts in mental health support for conditions such as anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

As of now, insufficient time has passed to determine a typical duration of this condition. There have also been some reports of people having symptoms that then get better and then mysteriously get worse again, and we don’t why it happens or what the long-term consequences will be.”.

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APRIL 8, 2024

“We’re hopeful that a payment mechanism, like what CMS is alluding to, through this RFI would allow more hospices to offer that on a consistent basis, of course, when it’s medically appropriate for the patient given their condition.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Hospice providers have increasingly turned to technology to connect with hard-to-reach patients, streamline back-office functions and stay ahead of the curve on worsening health conditions. Illinois-based Transitions Hospice, for example, launched a remote patient monitoring program in 2021 to better observe changes in patients’ conditions.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Most of the children receiving palliative care services at Akron Children’s have neurological disorders, such as muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy, as well as chromosomal abnormalities or other genetic conditions, the hospital reported.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Though uncertainty persists around the use of radiation therapy in palliative care, a recent study published in the journal Clinical Oncology found measurable improvement in patients’ conditions and symptoms.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

The care centers offer same-day and walk-in appointments for most primary care services, wellness coaching and education as well as treatment for complex, chronic health conditions. Established in California in 1993, the company also offers programs to address social determinants of health.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Rippl’s services focus on seniors suffering from dementia and other neurocognitive conditions. million patients currently diagnosed with that condition. Many people will never be able to really afford long-term care, and I think there’s a big equity issue here. In the United States, roughly 13.8 division of Starbucks Corp.

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APRIL 22, 2024

The study also found that caregivers of patients in assisted living settings rated hospice providers lower in terms of communication and family caregiving training. “We These hospices were 5% less likely to have higher CAHPS scores and 7% less likely to have higher HIS scores.

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MARCH 15, 2024

“So there are there’s no question that from the peak we’re down in terms of multiples. But I do see them kind of coming together a little more and in sellers being a little more realistic in terms of their expectations.”

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2023

Palliative care services for patients with inoperable cancer and end-stage chronic medical conditions have been shown to improve quality of life, reduce consumption of medical services, and overall increase long-term survival,” the authors wrote in the editorial. “In

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Transfusion services are not sufficiently covered under current hospice reimbursement, hindering providers’ in terms of care delivery and patient reach, Armitage stated. Patients with blood-related conditions historically have low rates of hospice utilization, according to research published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

The affected codes “focused on conditions that are subject to more coding variation,” according to CMS. These diagnostic codes are used to determine a patient’s Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) score. Some conditions, such as major depression, for example, can have as many as 300 different codes associated with it. “We

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

This represents a “record-low start” in terms of M&A activity across these sectors, with hospice seeing the steepest decline, according to the firm. And that’s before you add the external macroeconomic conditions. Less than a handful (about 4 or 5) of these were hospice deals.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

The company is getting ready to explore various transaction options in order to satisfy the terms of its Tax Matters Agreement with Encompass Health Corp. If these conditions are satisfied, the board with the assistance of independent advisors intends to launch a strategic alternatives process.”

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Hospices can greatly underestimate the cost of turnover in terms of dollars, quality of care and organizational performance,” Linton said. Many hospices projected forward momentum around labor conditions in 2023, anticipating reduced turnover rates tied to staffing investments/initiatives.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While pediatric palliative care nurses were viewed as helpful in addressing the needs of children with serious illnesses, “service gaps” were found in terms of a need for better medical care collaboration and coordination of supportive resources and information, researchers indicated.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Offering palliative care in an emergency setting is valuable to both immediate and long-term patient outcomes, according to Dr. David Curley, medical director of The Miriam Hospital’s emergency department. “A A visit to an emergency department can be one of the most vulnerable times of a person’s life,” Curley said in an announcement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

Questions are also percolating around the long-term viability of the six-month terminal prognosis requirement. We’ve got work ahead of us in terms of being able to modify the benefit structure, making it more effective and meeting the needs of patients. Patients with these conditions also tend to have the longest lengths of stay.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Florida is among the states with hospice CON laws in place, while Georgia’s CON programs predominantly pertain to other health care facility types such as hospitals and long-term care facilities. This can make it difficult to stand out as a quality hospice provider in terms of recruitment and retention efforts and referral sources, he stated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Critics argue that PE and PTCs could prioritize short-term, above-market returns, which may lead to agencies selectively enrolling and targeting patients who require less complex care and longer hospice stays, such as those with dementia and nursing home residents.” After an acquisition by a public company, hospices saw a 1.4%

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Seriously ill children represent some of the most underserved populations nationwide in terms of quality and access to supportive health care, according to Katie Leonard, director of pediatrics at California-based Anchor Health. Each year an estimated 2.5

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2021, these conditions tied with cancer as the most frequently occurring principal diagnoses for Medicare decedents who elected the benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. In terms of caregiving support, not much has changed. The piece that is challenging for the provider is compensation.

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JUNE 6, 2023

This decision came after physicians at the Washington state-based hospital noticed a troubling trend: people with chronic conditions often come to the emergency room in a crisis because no one provides the care they need in the home setting. Most of the hospital’s revenue shortfall comes from its long-term care facility — a 20-bed outfit.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

No standardized or statutory definition exists for palliative care, and different providers and payers have applied the term to a variety of care models. These have ranged from consults with advance care planning to longer-term interdisciplinary services or transitional programs for patients who are yet hospice-eligible.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

In the HOPE tool] the majority of the questions are nurse focused, so they’ll have to look at how they’re staffing their nurses in terms of the initial visits and doing the hospice update visits and making sure that their nurses can complete everything in a timely manner,” Barnett told Hospice News. “It’s

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Thus, conditions in the community likely impact readmission rates and hospitals could benefit from work to improve local access to post-acute care, the authors of a study published today in Health Affairs concluded. . CMS has since rolled all of its former quality rating sites into its Care Compare online database.).

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

The impacts of offering palliative care upstream of hospice can be “profound” in terms of cost savings at the end of life, Westfall said. A main issue in demonstrating the value proposition of palliative care is a lack of standardized quality measures and cost structures around these services, according to Westfall.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

In agreeing to the settlement terms, ASC denies all liability under the False Claims Act. Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) allow health care providers to receive payments for items or services that are considered unrelated to a hospice patient’s terminal illness and related conditions. Investigators from the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2022

Determining a six-month prognosis is challenging even for adult patients, particularly for those who have conditions with relatively unpredictable trajectories, like dementia. Palliative care was a foreign term in the the health care industry 15 years ago, and now it’s much more recognized.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

CMMI’s high-needs direct contracting payment model is designed for coverage of patients with multiple serious or chronic conditions. Presently, 80% of CareConnectMD’s patient population is in the long term care setting, according to Phan. CareConnectMD CareConnectMD CareConnectMD Founder and CEO Kim Phan.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

However, in recent years palliative care has been gaining ground, as more payers, providers and patients begin to realize what these services can do for them in terms of reducing costs and improving outcomes. But increasingly, those providers are working together to bridge gaps in care and cover all the bases in terms of care settings.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Predictive analytics technology can give hospice providers expanded visibility into patient conditions and overall experiences as they reach the most critical stages at the end of life, according to Amie Nangle, client success executive at Medalogix. It builds upon our culture of high quality care.”

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2023

Palliative care providers use a multi-disciplinary approach to treat a person living with a chronic condition who “may or may not be terminally ill,” CMS indicated. Georgia came in second in terms of palliative care bills, introducing 27 legislative pieces during the same five-year time frame. Nine of these bills were passed.

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