Ted Billinger Jr. liked to joke that he would work until he died. That turned out to be prophetic...

During 2021 hospice providers took their first concrete steps towards value-based payments while contending with a global pandemic. Industry consolidation proceeded apace, and the appetites of private equity buyers for hospice assets have not diminished...

Value-based payment models are among the factors spurring rising interest in palliative care among hospices. These models present new avenues towards palliative care reimbursement, along with risks...

Recent research found that improved access to blood transfusions could lead more patients to elect hospice. Researchers indicated that the prospect of losing access to transfusions is causing some patients and families to forego hospice, particularly those with blood cancers...

Ben Forsyth had doubts about telehealth. When the coronavirus pandemic hit New York, he was wary of trekking by subway from Brooklyn to see his palliative care doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. The prospect of entering a hospital and sitting in a waiting room troubled him, too...

People aged 75 years and older have zero risk of serious adverse cardiovascular events after
vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a new nationwide study has found...

Mary Kay Sheehan believes in transparency, honesty, and compassion; these traits are what led her to become an oncology nurse and, now, a hospice leader...

Quality is closely tied to financial sustainability in an increasingly competitive hospice marketplace. A hospice’s performance on publicly reported quality and family satisfaction measures is a key differentiator that could attract or deter interest from the gamut of investors, referral partners, payers and consumers.

A study of more than 400 health care professionals has revealed that most physicians lack knowledge of medicinal cannabis, with 65% saying that they have been asked about medical marijuana as a treatment for chronic pain but were unable to answer their patients’ questions...