Now, 40-plus years after the first hospice opened in the United States, half of all Americans
die in hospice care. However, an alarming trend has taken place in the last 10 years...

The number of hospice patients grew 6.8% to 1.72 million eligible Medicare beneficiaries in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. That is the largest year-over-year increase, according to a new report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization...

Most hospices are sliding into 2023 between a rock and a hard place, beset by headwinds, labor shortages and questions with no easy answers...

Chapters Health System and Capital Caring Health have signed a letter of intent to affiliate. The agreement is expected to close in early 2023. This marks the third affiliation that Chapters announced or completed during 2022, following Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care early in the year and Hope Healthcare just last week.

Following a ProPublica-New Yorker investigation into the hospice industry, members of the Comprehensive Care Caucus and national trade groups are demanding reform...

Home health and hospice providers slammed the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) Friday for playing Grinch in its recommendations to cut base payment rates for both home health and hospice agencies in calendar year 2024...

Hospice leaders have kept their eyes on four key numbers as 2022 progressed: clinical capacity, length of stay, labor costs and utilization. A fifth, the rising number of new hospices in certain states, has emerged as a priority in recent weeks...

Four Seasons Hospice recently announced that it was named Living Wage Certified by Just Economics of Western North Carolina...

ProPublica and The New Yorker recently published an article, How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle, outlining multiple instances of fraud and malfeasance targeting the Medicare hospice benefit...