The home health industry moved one step closer to a monumental victory on Wednesday after the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted in support of a $2 trillion stimulus bill. Most notably, the bill seeks to allow non-physicians to certify for home health services and take charge of patients’ care plans, an authority home health stakeholders have […]
The home has become the place where most Americans die of natural causes — beating out hospitals for the first time since the early 20th century. The trend sheds further light on the need for in-home care, including palliative care services and even proactive, non-medical home care. This is one takeaway from a study published […]
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its new voluntary risk-based in-home primary care initiative in April, home health providers and advocates responded with cautious optimism. For some, that optimism will now have to be put on hold. Although CMS is now accepting applications to participate in its Primary Care First payment […]
Health care policymakers on Monday unveiled a new voluntary risk-based initiative designed to reward physicians who keep patients at home and away from hospitals. Based upon the work of previous administrations, the new initiative marks a major inflection point for the value-based transformation of the U.S. health care system, according to Department of Health and […]
Hospice leaders are, for the most part, encouraged by the move to explore a Medicare Advantage (MA) carve-in for hospice through an expanded demonstration. But several questions remain, they caution, with the bulk of them focusing on whether the hospice benefit could somehow be diluted or lessened. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) […]
The Medicare Advantage (MA) carve-in that many industry insiders pegged as “inevitable” has finally arrived. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) on Friday morning announced it is expanding the MA Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model, using VBID to test out several wide-ranging updates to MA offerings, including a hospice carve-in set to take […]
Although health care policymakers have begun to further open the Medicare Advantage (MA) door, hospice providers remain largely shut out and still looking for a “carve-in.” But though the hospice industry may be on its own island when it comes to the MA program, it at least appears to be building new bridges. The National […]
An East Coast fisherman likely wasn’t expecting that a morning of crabbing at Matt’s Landing in New Jersey would lead to a rare and deadly infection—or highlight a major dilemma in the Medicare hospice program. Specifically, the case is an example of how patients sometimes must forgo the comfort care that hospice can provide in […]
Lawmakers may not agree on much these days, but they at least appear to agree when it comes to fostering end-of-life care for terminally ill Americans. The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), a bipartisan piece of legislation designed to expand and strengthen end-of-life care […]
Legislation aimed at raising awareness and increasing the quality of hospice and palliative care is steadily finding its way through Capitol Hill. U.S. Rep. Tom Reed (R-New York) announced on Tuesday that the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA) has made it out of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee and […]
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