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Hospice Regulations May Be Adversely Affecting Dementia Patients

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These include the audit system created by Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014, and the two-tiered reimbursement for routine home care that reduced payment amounts after 60 days. Designed to prevent misuse of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, these efforts may have had unintended consequences.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

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VMG is one of three entities that comprise Valley Health System, which provides care in southern New York and northern New Jersey communities. The Valley Hospital and Valley Home Care are also part of the health system. ALC Hospice Care Names COO. I took on the challenge.

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CommCare Expands with Notre Dame Hospice, Home Health Acquisitions

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The home health and hospice acquisition extends CommCare’s reach across Louisiana and in parts of Mississippi where Notre Dame provides services. The Notre Dame Health System launched services in 1977, and in the past two years provided roughly 131,000 days of hospice care to more than 1,800 patients. Census Bureau.

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

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Different health systems often fail to serve these families because they don’t have the right resources or because it’s very difficult to manage care.”. Patients with dementia are among the fast-growing populations in terms of hospice utilization. How the United States Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support.

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Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

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The company in July 2021 purchased three hospice and home health agencies as part of its multi-state expansion plans. Assets acquired in the deal included Tender Care Home Health & Hospice and Sun Tree Hospice in Utah, as well as Hands of Hope Home Care & Hospice in Idaho.

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For-Profit or Nonprofit, Hospice Is Not a ‘Hustle’

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Starting with the headline, the story uses “hospice” as a monolithic term that makes little distinction among individual providers — heralding it overgeneralized and oversimplified perspective. Health care has its own language, and at times the New Yorker and ProPublica appeared to be less than fluent. Hospice costs money.

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

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What is our role as hospice and palliative care providers in advocating for high-quality hospice care? If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms.

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