Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. After experiencing a functional decline at the hospital, the woman, no longer able to live at home safely, was sent to an SNF for post-acute care, covered by Medicare. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).
Hospice News
APRIL 11, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which requires providers to acquire a building and design a center to house a PACE program. Constructed in 2006 as the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, the facility was renovated after its closure in 2011.
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Hospice News
AUGUST 4, 2023
HHCJ received Medicare certification in 2006 and was operated by Catholic Community Services prior to its closure. “And so we can’t just accept a large number of patients. They have to be on-call 24/7. But we’re here, we’re going to do a slow opening and we’re going to start accepting patients.”
Hospice News
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Support for family caregivers is an important step towards controlling health care costs, particularly for Medicare and Medicaid, according to Greg Link, director of the Office for Supportive and Caregiver Services at ACL. The strategy also contains 150 recommendations for state and local government, as well as the private sector.
Hospice News
AUGUST 26, 2022
It became certified to offer hospice under the Medicare benefit in 1990, which Cogswell told local news was a “game changer,” in end-of-life care. Since 2006 he has held leadership roles in health care association accounting and finance teams. Arnold joins the Washington D.C.-based
1-800-HOSPICE
MARCH 21, 2023
2 Researchers analyzed Medicare records for 18,777 patients who died with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), aggressive NHL, or mantle cell lymphoma. Compared to all Medicare beneficiaries who died with cancer, patients with lymphoma proved 23% less likely to receive hospice, and they tended to have fewer days in hospice.
GeriPal
JUNE 22, 2023
Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here.
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