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Medicare Claims for Unrelated Services Put Hospices at Risk

Hospice News

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).

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2022: What will the technical experts say?

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

” that there was likely a shift occurring in post-acute care payment reform AND the fact that there was a technical expert panel (TEP) in place providing feedback and guidance to CMS? Assess the impact of the payment alternative on SNF residents, SNF providers, and the overall Medicare system. Recommend adjustments for adoption by CMS.

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Health literacy and rehab: The deviled eggs are in the details

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

We see the same dichotomy in supporting literacy of the primary diagnosis, which as we all know, is really just cracking the surface, and the development of functional plans of care supporting the full complexity of patients. Take, for instance, the statistics surrounding the Medicare population and multiple chronic conditions (aka MCCs).

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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? She asks If you were the Czar of Geriatric care and were handed $7 trillion- Alex: Whoa, $7 trillion Anne: To improve the health of seniors in the United States, how would you spend it? Eric: Not on amyloid drugs.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. And I wrote a paper a couple years ago, entitled Forced to Choose: When Medicare Policy Disrupts End of Life Care. Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.