The year 2020 brought unprecedented disruption to the hospice space, mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak strained providers ability to provide care, access patients in homes and facilities and to maintain a healthy bottom line in light of lost revenues and rising costs. Despite these challenges and economic headwinds, hospices adapted, improvised and […]
“It’s about how you live.” This is the theme for 2020’s National Hospice & Palliative Care Month, which is celebrated in November. A reminder to some and a revelation to others, this message underscores the reality that hospice and palliative care are not ultimately about death, but how one chooses to live with serious illness […]
Stakeholders in the hospice space and beyond have recognized the need for community-based palliative care, delivered in the home, and the time has come for the federal government to do the same. Efforts have been underway among health care providers, state governments, advocacy groups and payers, among others, to make community based palliative care more […]
State and federal agencies are taking steps to help alleviate the burdens placed on the health care system by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, few of the actions so far are oriented around the specific needs of the hospice and palliative care communities. This could signal a lack of awareness or understanding of the needs of […]
While much of the nation grinds to a halt amid the COVID-19 pandemic, hospice providers remain on the move — providing essential care to suffering patients and families in their homes and communities. In my observations of the hospice community, going the extra mile seems to be a matter of course for providers. Nurses have […]
Seven weeks into the application period for participation in the Medicare Advantage Hospice carve-in, payers as well as hospices have little information about how — or how much — plans would be reimbursed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The dearth of information has created some uncertainty as to whether plans […]
How would you feel if you were told you had only 30 days to live? What would you do during your last month, your last day, your last hour? This is the question that greeted me when I arrived at a San Francisco restaurant to participate in Death Over Dinner, an event that takes place […]
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