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How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

The Productive Home Health Nurse

This is solely due to demand and the availability of Medicare and other funding for home health services. Just to give you an idea of the volume involved, In 2007 there were 9,024 Medicare home health agencies , and by 2017 that number had increased to 11, 593 agencies. billion in 2001 to $18.3 billion in 2012.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. So they looked at those that died in 2019, did a year back look at total cost of care that showed at six months, if somebody lives six months on average, those in hospice cost the Medicare trust fund 11% less than those who never enrolled.

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