Hospice News
MARCH 26, 2024
In the hospice and home health arena, what we are seeing is that there’s a little bit of a tilt to home health now over hospice, but you still have the private equity firms that have a very hospice heavy thesis, and they’re in their thought process.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be implementing a revised compliance survey process and has convened a Technical Expert Panel to develop a hospice Special Focus Program. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) will conduct a national audit for patient eligibility.
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Hospice News
JULY 26, 2022
Deal volume is definitely down this year over the past few record-setting years. It’s down a bit by about 10% – 11% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2021 as some of the investor focus shifts to home health. There was definitely a perfect storm the past couple years with hospice.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
HSPN: Can you talk a little bit about what kind of disruption could occur in the hospice industry, as a result of Medicare Advantage? Warren: I know many of you in the audience have home health organizations, you see the challenges that home health organizations face, from an M&A disruption. Are you not?
The Productive Home Health Nurse
AUGUST 10, 2020
It took me 2 long months to get an understanding of the OASIS nursing note and another 2 weeks or so before I figured out how to speak the “Medicare language”. A lot of what goes into writing your OASIS nursing note that speaks to Medicare and gets you paid is the FOUNDATION and road map. I know exactly how that feels!
Hospice News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
We had a lot of this in home health, and now it’s hospice’s turn to be scrutinized. Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. This seems to go in waves. Ultimately, that results in clinician satisfaction and clinician retention.
The Productive Home Health Nurse
AUGUST 28, 2021
To place quantities to all of this text, the number of agencies providing home health care in the United States grew from 8,314 in 2005 to 12,613 in 2013 with Medicare expenditures for home health care services alone nearly doubling from 9.7 home health spending officially hit $102.2 billion in 2012.
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