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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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The letter highlighted the unique challenges that rural and frontier hospice and palliative care providers face, and how strengthened financial support could lead to sustainable access and better care transitions for serious and terminally ill rural-based patients.

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

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Startups such as Empathy, Betterleave Bereavement Care, Grief Refuge and Help Texts (formerly Grief Coach) have launched platforms designed to help families cope and assist with tasks such as funeral planning, account cancellations, legalities and financial arrangements. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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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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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. The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), for instance, filed an amicus brief with the court.

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