Hospice News
MARCH 12, 2024
An OIG study of hospice billing claims submitted during 2012 found that 31% of the GIP claims that providers submitted to CMS were inappropriately billed — to the tune of an estimated $268 million that year alone. They also recommended that personnel conducting these audits have knowledge equivalent to a hospice medical director. “It
Hospice News
MARCH 25, 2024
Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012. It comes with hiring the right medical directors and clinicians to make sure patients are eligible.
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Hospice News
JUNE 28, 2023
Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.
Hospice News
APRIL 26, 2022
I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. My parents are both nurses and my wife is a nurse as well, so I’ve been around clinical care my entire life before we decided to branch out into hospice. I get into the field right alongside our staff to provide hospice care.
High Peaks Hospice
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The Start of End Of Life Care in the Tri-Lakes Area and Expanding Throughout the Adirondacks. Dr. Merkel engaged with his partner Dr. Robert Kasulke to spear head the medical care. Dr. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012. Ann and David gathered a team.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Chou had originally announced his intention to help influence opioid policy in a 2011 article that he co-authored with PROP’s founders (5), and he was a bold signatory to PROP’s 2012 Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change opioid labeling (6; See Figures 1a and 1b: First page and signatory page.)
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