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Choice Health CEO Jackson: Instant Care Deal an Extraordinary Opportunity in Non-Medical Home Care

Hospice News

“[Arizona has] a fantastic state government, a Medicaid program that truly aims to support families with intermediaries that share that vision, and a demographic that needs our services,” Jackson told Hospice News in an email. The company initially launched as a rehabilitation service provider in 2008. As of 2019, the U.S.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. And, I would lower the Medicare age so that there’s Medicare for all.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. They’re all Medicare beneficiaries. And it was the right thing to do.