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OIG’s Hospice GIP Audit Fueled by Inappropriate Billing; Nearly One-Third of Claims Have Errors

Hospice News

Roughly one-third of Medicare claims for general inpatient hospice services (GIP) are billed in error, the OIG indicated. Common errors include billing for GIP services when hospice patients did not need this level of care.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

1-800-HOSPICE

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. Length of hospice enrollment and subsequent depression in family caregivers: 13-month follow-up study.

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The Rise of Hospital at Home

AlayaCare

Accelerated production of PPE and flex care solutions While the overall response to COVID has bee n uneven, to put it one way, there has been a strong push at many levels to bolster PPE production (an acronym everyone now understands), increase hospital ward capacity, and think generally out side the box when it comes to patient care.

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