LeadingAge is adding its organizational voice to other industry groups supporting the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s call for increased oversight related to hospice care. In two reports issued Tuesday, the OIG found that the majority of Medicare-certified hospices providing care in assisted living communities, skilled
More nursing homes are providing hospice care, but such services remain largely underused, a new LeadingAge report finds. The analysis notes that the hospices’ prevalence has skyrocketed in recent years, with the number of providers nearly doubling since 2000, at about 4,200 in 2016. “Over the same period of time, the hospice
The United States will experience significant growth of the population older than age 65 in the coming decades, which will contribute to an increase in the number of people living with chronic and serious illnesses in the community. Field experts, policy makers, and health care leaders have identified the lack of an adequately prepared
