The National Partnership for Hospice Innovation (NPHI) announces with great enthusiasm the launch of its Innovation Lab, a targeted, coordinated effort across NPHI member programs to identify, elevate, and accelerate best practices and other resources that will enable community-based hospice programs to thrive in the face of a changing health
Janaury 2019 –NPHI worked in collaboration with LeadingAge and LeadingAge Ohio on this paper that highlights the benefits of the traditional, robust hospice model and point to differences between some newer providers and traditional community-based, nonprofit hospice providers. For example, while utilization of the Medicare Hospice Benefit has increased over time
Hospice leaders are, for the most part, encouraged by the move to explore a Medicare Advantage (MA) carve-in for hospice through an expanded demonstration. But several questions remain, they caution, with the bulk of them focusing on whether the hospice benefit could somehow be diluted or lessened. The Centers for
