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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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Hospices Call on Congress to Support Rural Hospices, Patients

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Among the signatories were 63 hospice and palliative care providers across the country, 14 state hospice and palliative associations, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the health care technology company Axxess.

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??Care Alternatives Returning to Court in FCA Case

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Department of Justice (DOJ) is pursuing a qui tam lawsuit against Care Alternatives Inc., Four former employees of Care Alternatives have alleged that the New Jersey-based company billed Medicare for hospice services when patients were not eligible to receive them. The case has been winding through the courts since 2008.

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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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Residential Hospice Acquires Two Providers in Missouri and Ohio

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. “With the addition of Comfort Hospice of St. Louis Missouri and Grace Hospice of Maumee Ohio, we are poised for expansion throughout the Midwest as we continue our mission of making hospice care more accessible to our communities,” Justin DeWitte, CEO of Residential Hospice, said in a statement.

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St. Croix Hospice Continues Missouri Expansion

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Croix Hospice is answering the growing hospice care needs of central Missouri by locating additional staff to serve communities from our new Jefferson City location,” said CEO Heath Bartness in a press release. based Lexington Hospice Care. in 2008, according to the U.S. . “St. Last month, St.

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

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Vast disparities in hospice utilization exist among some groups and demographics. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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