Hospice News
MARCH 21, 2024
Members of Congress are raising questions about the continued Medicare certification for new hospices in areas rife with fraud. Investigations have shown that potentially hundreds of newly licensed hospices have bilked Medicare of millions of dollars during the past several years, all while providing egregiously poor care or none at all.
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).
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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
of the state’s overall population in 2010, a jump from 9.9% of the state’s overall population in 2010, a jump from 9.9% At a rate of 57.9%, Florida ranked fourth nationwide for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in 2018, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported. Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc.
Hospice News
APRIL 25, 2023
Seniors older than 65 are the fastest-growing age group in the county, having seen a 22% increase between 2010 and 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported. Cape Fear LifeCare will also assist UNC by providing palliative care consultations within the hospital. Census Bureau.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
At the same time, the ratio of potential caregivers to seriously ill seniors is expected to shrink to 4-to-1 by 2023, a “sharp decline” from 7-to-1 in 2010, AARP reported. In 2010, the U.S. Some Medicare Advantage plans also offer some caregiver support services as a supplemental benefit.
Hospice News
MAY 22, 2023
between 2010 and 2019. of Medicare decedents who used hospice in 2018, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. About 63% of Asians indicated that they would want to receive emotional support services at the end of life, according to VITAS Healthcare’s annual Advance Care Planning Report.
Hospice News
APRIL 25, 2022
billion Medicare Advantage (MA) organization that covers more than 270,000 members. In 2010 and 2011, he was a special advisor to then U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Don Berwick. Among the authors of that article was Dr. Meena Seshamani, director of the Center for Medicare within CMS. “We
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