Hospice News
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Rechtin comes to Humana from Envision Healthcare where he is now president and CEO. All told, he has more than 22 years of experience with value-based health care and payment models, including Medicare Advantage, according to a Humana press release. He joined the company in 2011 and became CEO in 2013. Humana Inc.
Hospice News
JULY 19, 2023
As of 2020, those individuals represented only about 10% of Medicare decedents who elected hospice, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare received the certification for its Atlanta locations. Recently, the Chemed Corp.
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Healthcare Law Insights blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
The Affordable Care Act mandated that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) establish risk categories for Medicare enrollment, which are used by CMS to determine what level of scrutiny to give provider enrollment applications, which includes initial enrollment, change of ownership (“CHOW”) applications, and revalidations.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
APRIL 11, 2024
Dedicated to supporting PAC nurses and healthcare professionals in providing quality care, AAPACN offers members best-in-class education, certification, resources and strong collaborative communities. And to this day I owe my ability to quote Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Chapter 15 Sections 220 and 230 to Liz. Billie Joe, thank you!
Hospice News
MAY 13, 2022
Commonly called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the VBID program requires participating hospices to offer palliative care upstream. There’s lots of innovative things that can come from Medicare Advantage companies and partnerships with them,” Sangre de Cristo’s former CEO Tarrah Lowry told Hospice News last July.
Nurse.com
MAY 9, 2022
Nurses have integral roles in emerging healthcare models aimed at meeting the needs of a growing population of medically complex children. And while children with medical complexity represent only a small percentage of the pediatric population overall, they account for the lion’s share of pediatric healthcare spending. “As
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Although this reduced Washington state’s Medicaid costs, it contributed “to the deaths of at least 2,173 people between 2003 and late 2011 (23, 25).” Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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