Hospice providers are nearly desperate to recruit nurses, but their labor woes do not end there. A shortage of non-clinical staff is an additional sore spot. Providers are anticipating demand for non-clinical staff to rise as they compete for resources in an increasingly fierce labor market. Providers have seen no lights at the end of […]
Hospice inpatient centers have proliferated since the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rebased payment rates in 2020. While reimbursement increases can foster growth, a convergence of factors complicate providers’ ability to balance a healthy margin with the expanded access to care. The 2020 rebasing instituted a 2.7% payment increase in payments for […]
Hospices are hard at work developing new business lines such as palliative care to reach patients further upstream and capitalize on value-based care opportunities. As beneficial as these services can be both to patients and providers, the importance of effective program design cannot be overstated. Florida-based Alivia Care is among a growing pool of hospice […]
Community Hospice & Palliative Care recently reopened an inpatient center on the University of Florida (UF) Health Jacksonville campus. The George and Margaret Morris Center for Caring closed in 2020 to help the hospital accommodate COVID-19 patients during the pandemic’s peak. Drops in COVID infection rates have allowed some health care providers to take their […]
Hospice providers saw a great deal of change during 2021. The industry continued to reel from a global pandemic while enduring worsening labor pressure. The market saw shake-ups through massive mergers and acquisitions that reshaped the competitive landscape, as well as regulatory enforcement reform and the onset of the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — to […]
Hospice News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most pressing market forces and trends that will shape the space during 2022. Their comments carried some common threads, including rising demand for care in the home, continued labor pressures and industry consolidation, the involvement of hospice in Medicare Advantage and intensifying regulatory scrutiny. […]
Alivia Care CEO Susan Ponder Stansel came to the hospice field in 1985 as a volunteer clinical social worker at the Hospice of Northeast Florida, which was later rebranded as Community Hospice & Palliative Care. Six years later in 1991, she was the nonprofit’s CEO, putting the organization on a growth trajectory that saw the […]
Questions abound about the potential long-term impacts of the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration, known as the Medicare Advantage (MA) hospice carve-in. As the program approaches its second year, hospice and palliative care providers are asking questions about the delivery, setting and future outlook for their industries. The carve-in started small in 2021, but this […]
Davis, Calif.-based Yolo Hospice has become the newest affiliate of the California Hospice Network (CHN). The network is a coalition of nonprofit hospices designed to support the growth of community-based hospice care and leverage their collective scale and resources in value-based payment programs. Though each California Hospice Network member remains a distinct, independent organization, the […]
With the hospice mergers and acquisitions market showing no sign of slowing down, providers with high performance on quality measures, scale and size are anticipated to attract investors’ eyes. Even as strategic, private equity and non-traditional buyers continue to snap up hospices, those providers are themselves increasingly investing in more diversified assets, such as home […]
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