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Hospices Hail CMS Pay Bump, Worry About Rising Costs

Hospices Hail CMS Pay Bump, Worry About Rising Costs

Hospice News

Apr 4, 2022

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a 2.7% pay increase for hospice care for Fiscal Year 2023...

Hospice M&A to Stay Hot as Home Health Picks Up Steam

Hospice M&A to Stay Hot as Home Health Picks Up Steam

Hospice News

Mar 30, 2022

Mergers-and-acquisition activity continues to boom in the hospice space this year. Deal volume may exceed the record number from the prior two years...

Private equity, health care, and profits: It’s time to protect patients

Private equity, health care, and profits: It’s time to protect patients

STAT

Mar 24, 2022

In his State of the Union address, President Biden expressed concern with the growing — and troubling — trend of private equity ownership and operation of nursing homes and the inherent risk it presents to care of their residents...

Terminally ill patients the first in B.C. to consume legal supply of magic mushrooms

Terminally ill patients the first in B.C. to consume legal supply of magic mushrooms

Vancouver (BC) Sun

Apr 2, 2022

One of them, 54-year-old Thomas Hartle, arrived at Nanaimo airport Saturday morning from his home in Saskatoon to participate in psychedelic therapy using psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, which he hasn’t been able to legally do since August, when his one-year exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act expired...

UnitedHealth Group to Acquire LHC Group for $5.5 Billion

UnitedHealth Group to Acquire LHC Group for $5.5 Billion

Hospice News

Mar 29, 2022

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) has agreed to buy LHC Group (NASDAQ: LHCG) for a reported $5.5 billion. The insurance company will integrate LHC Group with its existing home health asset, Optum Health...

Hosparus Health breaks ground on $1.7 million community center

Hosparus Health breaks ground on $1.7 million community center

The Lane Report

Mar 24, 2022

Hosparus Health of Green River broke ground on a 4,465-square-foot community center at 462 N. Bypass Road in Campbellsville...

Hospice of the Western Reserve and Stein Hospice Unite

Hospice of the Western Reserve and Stein Hospice Unite

News Release

Apr 1, 2022

As of April 1, 2022, Hospice of the Western Reserve and Stein Hospice have joined together as one organization...

In Difficult Cases, ‘Families Cannot Manage Death at Home’

In Difficult Cases, ‘Families Cannot Manage Death at Home’

New York Times

Mar 26, 2022

Health care researchers argue that hospice facilities could better serve some terminal patients, and ease the burden on exhausted loved ones...

Delta Care Rx Presents NPHI's 2022 Annual Summit in Orlando, Florida

Delta Care Rx Presents NPHI's 2022 Annual Summit in Orlando, Florida

PRNewswire

Mar 23, 2022

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From April 12-14, 2022, the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), the US' largest collaborative of not-for-profit, community-integrated hospice and palliative care providers, will host its annual members-only Summit in Orlando, Florida...

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