Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Though regional variations exist, some palliative care delivery challenges are nearly universal for providers across the globe. Palliative care providers worldwide stand to benefit from sharing “lessons learned” to address common pain points. Increasing goals of care conversations among patients and families is another.
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Hospice News
APRIL 11, 2024
Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which requires providers to acquire a building and design a center to house a PACE program. has opened a new inpatient center in Illinois.
Hospice News
JANUARY 30, 2023
Many hospice providers rely on Medicare Advantage (MA) reimbursement to support palliative care, PACE and social determinants programs, among others. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) laid out its policy for validating MA plans’ risk adjustment data, which the agency uses to calculate capitation rates.
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). Kristen Schaefer, vice president and associate chief medical officer at Care Dimensions, indicated.
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
Hospice News
MAY 13, 2022
That same year, it launched a community-based pediatric palliative care program that offers specialized medical care to infants, children, adolescents and young adults suffering from serious illness. He built our Hospice Maui Hale to provide a space for patients and families when care at the home is no longer an option.”.
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