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...

Telehealth made big strides during the pandemic, both from a technological standpoint and
from patientsʼ perspectives...

The George and Margaret Morris Center for Caring of Community Hospice at UF Health Jacksonville reopened with an open house event at the hospital’s downtown campus...

The Department of Health and Human Services will seek to sustain and expand access to telemedicine after the federal government declares the COVID-19 public health emergency to be over, Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday...

Hospice News, an Aging Media publication, has published the results of its 2022 Hospice Outlook Survey, identifying the foremost challenges and opportunities for care providers in the year ahead...

Hospices in recent years have enlisted artificial intelligence in their quest to match the right patient to the right care at the appropriate time. As these systems continue to develop, some are finding potential benefits when it comes to regulatory compliance as well...

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...

Xiulu Ruan, a board-certified Alabama pain specialist, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for prescribing opioid analgesics “outside the usual course of professional medical practice.”...

Integration of telehealth has become an important component in serious illness and end-of-life care. Providers leveraged telehealth to build efficiency and increase touch points with patients and families, while also reducing travel and leg work for staff...