Voices: Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Home Health and Hospice, MatrixCare

This article is sponsored by MatrixCare. In this interview, Hospice News sits down with Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Home Health and Hospice, MatrixCare, to talk about the most pressing challenge facing providers in today’s hospice landscape — staffing. He discusses the key opportunities for navigating the current labor shortages and explains how outsourcing can help. […]

Reducing the Administrative Burden: A Win-Win for Hospice Care

Hospice providers are leveraging technology to build greater efficiency into their workflows and, in turn, aid with recruitment and retention. Providers have increasingly sought methods for streamlining clinical teams’ administrative tasks, for instance, including time spent on documentation. This lean toward efficiency reflects larger trends in the industry as the labor pool dwindles. Without more […]

Voices: Nick Knowlton, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, ResMed

This article is sponsored by MatrixCare. In this interview, Hospice News sits down with ResMed Vice President of Strategic Initiatives Nick Knowlton to learn why one of his driving mottos is “Do right,” how interoperability is helping hospice operators provide better patient care during COVID-19 and how the pandemic has changed the industry’s need for […]

ELEVATE Talks: A Discussion with MatrixCare

This article is brought to you by MatrixCare. The article is based on a live Q&A session with Navin Gupta, SVP, Home & Hospice, MatrixCare; Chris Pugliese, Senior Product Manager, MatrixCare; and Laurel Thomas, Associate VP of Quality Home Health & Hospice, Covenant Care, that took place at the HSPN ELEVATE conference in Chicago held […]

Hospice Providers Leverage EHR Interoperability for Palliative Care Referral Management

Technology is becoming a critical point of access and growth when it comes to fueling palliative care referrals. Electronic health record (EHR) interoperability will be key to building a sustainable palliative care patient census, as more providers re-examine the ways they collaborate with other health care organizations throughout the continuum. The complexity of referral management […]

Hospices See Rising Volume, Billing Challenges in Medicare Advantage

Value-based care has opened up a different world to hospices beginning this year. More than 90 days into the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration, hospices are seeing rising patient volumes while expanding service offerings and adapting to new billing processes. The program, often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, launched Jan. 1.  The Center for […]

Physicians Likely to Switch Hospice Partners for Greater Tech Interoperability

A rising number of physicians would switch their contracts to a different hospice provider if the organization had an electronic health record (EHR) that is interoperable with their own. Likewise, hospices and other post-acute providers are increasingly recognizing the importance of achieving interoperability with their referral partners. Nearly 75% of physicians indicated in a MatrixCare […]