Hospice News, which is part of the Aging Media Network, is a leading source for news and information covering the hospice industry. WiHPCA is happy to remind members about and provide links to the latest articles and information from Hospice News:

·         Competitive Labor Market Lights a Fire Under Hospice Employers

By Jim Parker | March 18, 2022

Hospice providers now compete for new hires as fiercely as they do for market share. 

And with that competition heating up this year, the largest home health and hospice companies are streamlining their recruitment and onboarding processes to enable more clinicians to hit the ground running. Read more…

·         MedPAC: Cut Hospice Payment Cap by 20%, Report Telehealth on Claims

By Jim Parker | March 15, 2022

Repeating similar calls in prior years, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has recommended to Congress that Medicare hospice payment rates remain at current levels next year. The commission also called on the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to apply the wage index to the hospice aggregate cap, followed by a 20% cut. Read more…

·         Providers Seek Palliative Care Quality Measures to Demonstrate Value

By Holly Vossel| March 18, 2022

The lack of standardized quality measures for palliative care complicates efforts to expand access to those services. This means community-based palliative care providers have limited ways to benchmark their performance and further demonstrate their value. Read more…

·         The Devil in Details of Hospice Strategic Collaboratives

By Holly Vossel| March 21, 2022

Nonprofit hospices are increasingly banding together in varying types of collaboratives to create workforce, operational and cost-effective synergies. As this trend picks up steam, hospices will need to fine-tune the details of these affiliations and choose partners carefully. Read more…