Local hospice providers are making sure patients spend their final days with loved ones even as the coronavirus pandemic prompts changes to visitation rules. “Our staff is amazing and they never ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new rules intended to strengthen the integrity of the Medicare hospice enrollment process due to CMS’ view of fraud and abuse concerns in ...

LOS ANGELES — As Marge Bowen examined her, Bessie Richburg lay in a hospital bed in the sunny second-floor bedroom of her West Philadelphia rowhouse with her eyes closed. The muscles of her face ...

Hospices will get a 2.6% pay increase for 2026 in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) final rule. The bump represents an estimated increase of $750 ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finalized three rules for hospice care, inpatient psychiatric facilities and inpatient rehabilitation facilities. The 2023 hospice payment update is ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - African Americans are less likely than whites to seek end-of-life hospice care -- and a new study suggests that hospice admission criteria may be partially to blame. The ...

Warning that patients could otherwise be left in pain, LeadingAge has formally asked the US Drug Enforcement Agency to ensure nursing home, hospice and palliative care patients have continued access ...

While the hospice program was originally designed for patients with cancer, who are expected to die within six months, currently close to half of older adult hospice enrollees have a diagnosis of ...