Hospice

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday released long-awaited guidance for hospice surveyors that fundamentally transforms the survey process, according to a regulatory expert from LeadingAge.

Provider groups are cautiously optimistic that Congress this year will pass a newly introduced Better Care Better Jobs Act that would expand home- and community-based services.

Staffing will be the focus in home care and hospice deals this year, according to Mertz Taggart Managing Partner Cory Mertz.

There is strength in numbers. I think that saying certainly can apply to Thursday’s joint statement by four provider groups to Congress and regulators about the unsavory expansion of hospices in certain...

A proposed ban on noncompete contracts and clauses by the Federal Trade Commission could become a huge headache for home care and hospice providers who use them.

In response to the unnatural growth in hospices in several states, four major provider groups jointly urged Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Thursday to enact legislative and regulatory...

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice praised a recommendation Wednesday by the Government Accounting Office that would require hospice providers to report patient abuse and neglect to the Centers...

Continued uncertainty around Medicare reimbursement rates could keep dogging the home health industry this year, Enhabit Home Health & Hospice executives said Thursday during a webinar sponsored by CSJ...

Home health M&A forecast strong for 2023, but valuations could fall, report finds.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) could prove to be a strong ally to the home care industry as he takes over the chairmanship of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee next month,...