Hospice News
AUGUST 17, 2022
Medicare claims for unrelated services creates serious financial and legal risks for hospice providers — even if they are not the ones who sent the bill. During recent years, payouts for non-hospice services provided to Medicare beneficiaries have tipped into the billions. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Hospice News
MAY 22, 2023
The survey’s findings show that while Asian Americans may think about end-of-life matters, they aren’t discussing or documenting these plans with health care professionals. Additionally, only 14% of survey respondents indicated a preference to hold advance care planning conversations with a health care professional.
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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
A main goal of the new fellowship is to train hospice and palliative physicians to provide more diverse and inclusive serious illness and end-of-life care, according to Dr. Diana Treu, an internist affiliated with the Orlando VA Medical Center. of the state’s overall population in 2010, a jump from 9.9%
Hospice News
APRIL 7, 2023
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking answers from the hospice community — including some around utilization patterns and non-hospice spending. The ‘unrelated care’ conundrum CMS is also seeking to learn more about the factors contributing to rising non-hospice spending for patients who have elected the benefit.
1-800-HOSPICE
MARCH 21, 2023
Recently, Oreofe Odejide, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues published an analysis of hospice utilization among patients who died with lymphoma, and they made recommendations for improving patient care. Patients in hospice have fewer rehospitalizations, fewer intensive care unit admissions, and lower costs.
GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. Ruth: One of the other findings was that there was across all nursing homes, a belief that black families did not want to engage in advanced care planning. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Sure.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of life care.” I looked up the annual Medicare spending, is about one 10th that, so it’s like 10 times the annual Medicare budget.
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