Hospice News
JANUARY 23, 2024
Black or Latino patients in socially vulnerable areas were less likely to utilize hospice than white patients, and there’s a compounding effect on end-of-life pain management.” Researchers examined patient data for 48,631 Medicare hospice decedents from 2008 to 2016 across 15 states.
Hospice News
APRIL 17, 2024
“The addition of HomeCare Hospice to our network will allow us to better serve our community and meet the growing needs of patients in need of compassionate end-of-life care.” By 2023, the bureau estimates that more than a quarter of the state’s residents will be older than 60, an increase of close to 40% since 2012.
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Hospice News
MARCH 12, 2024
The nation’s four largest hospice industry organizations — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) — in late 2023 conducted a 133-respondent provider survey focused on regulation.
Hospice News
MARCH 13, 2024
We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.” “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We
Hospice News
JULY 25, 2022
“In total, Atoyan, Karapetyan and others caused the agencies to submit over 8,000 claims to Medicare for the cost of home health care and hospice services. Based on those claims, Medicare paid the agencies approximately $31 million,” the U.S. Justice Department indicated in a statement. Attorney Phillip Talbert.
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. In February that year we got our corporation licenses for a business and in November we became Medicare-certified. We saw that there’s a great need for these services there.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 1, 2022
We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.”. “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We
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