Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Now is the time to make sure that you’re not over-dependent on one line of service or one referral source. Now’s the time to make sure your entire book of business isn’t tied to one source. “We’re seeing a lot of providers building the foundation now for the changes that are coming. But it goes both ways.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Why are we talking about that? I know there’s a lot of different controversial topics, but maybe that’s one of the answers to starting to fix that problem if we think about it a little differently. We are an in-home care company. We provide personal care, skilled home health, palliative care, hospice care, and behavioral health.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Understanding payer priorities in defining the scope of quality is vital for hospices to thrive not only in traditional Medicare, but also in today’s value-based reimbursement climate. Perhaps the biggest quality measure in the eyes of payers are outcomes and experiences reported by family members and caregivers, said Barnett.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

The report pointed to several contributing factors, including financial incentives for executives who have a track record of reducing in-hospital deaths and expansion in HCA’s own hospice operations. Additionally, we believe the home will become a more important setting for health care in the future, with continuing growth in demand.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

More patients, providers, and payers realized that a wider range of services could be delivered in the home, which aligns both with patient preferences and the goal of reducing costs. Respondents were physicians who care predominantly for Medicare fee-for-service or Medicare Advantage patients. The labor shortage is so complex.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The payer has deployed billions in capital towards high-profile acquisitions aimed at growing Optum’s capabilities, including the purchase of the health care tech firm Change Healthcare and the in-home medical group Landmark Health. Another big-ticket deal in 2022 also involved another payer. Optum to pick up LHC Group.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today. When I started in the area, we had 600 palliative care patients, that grew to 1,200 pretty quickly. We had a multimodal approach, meaning we serviced in the hospital, in senior living settings, and in the home.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Quality and financial data have become paramount in contract negotiations with payers and, increasingly, referral partners, and systems like predictive analytics and artificial intelligence have proliferated among hospices as they try to reach patients further upstream.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 31, 2019

As 2019 enters the home stretch and we look forward to the year ahead, it’s an opportune time to prepare for the issues and trends that will impact the home care industry. We forecasted increasingly blurred lines between clinical care and personal care. These themes will continue to be felt as we enter 2020.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 5, 2020

In fact, we named our annual user conference Better Outcomes – because it embodies so much of what we want to achieve for our employees, our customers, and most importantly, for their clients. The ones who rely on home care and home health to live independently for as long as possible.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 31, 2022

– So, What Should We Do? So, What Should We Do? Jeff Bezos recognized this and said, “What I can tell you is that the idea of using diapers to attract new customers who have new families is a very traditional idea.” Doug Herrington of Amazon wrote, “We need to match pricing on these guys no matter the cost.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What if, for at least some older adults who need acute-level care, instead of treating them in the hospital, we treat them at home? That’s the focus of the hospital-at-home movement, and the subject we talk about in this week’s podcast. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? This is Eric Widera. Eric: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

Today, we’ll be discussing Home Care’s role in reducing hospital readmissions. Well, I’m, I’m so excited to have you, and I know that you are both just as passionate about data as we are here at H C P. We really appreciate taking the time to visit with us today. And you are correct. And you are correct.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In September 2021, Pallimed published our second commentary, which focused on the astonishing disclosure of an important conflict-of-interest (COI) by Dr. Roger Chou (5), who co-authored the 2016 Guideline, calling its integrity into question (4, 5). by by Chad D.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This is season three of vision, and before we jumped in, we just wanted to introduce ourselves talk a little bit about our backgrounds and specifically talk a lot about Linda’s background, how she came to be the chief clinical officer here at home care pulse and her history with the industry. So I worked in acute care.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

Today we’re gonna discuss accreditation for home care agencies and how it can impact both operations and the quality of care. And to do that, we’re joined by Brett Ringold, vice President of a long-term companion, and Gary Bachrach, executive Director of Business Development Home Care Services at the Joint Commission.

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