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
APRIL 3, 2024
Pagliaro joined the organization in 2012 as a hospice and palliative physician, ascending into roles such as associate director of palliative medicine and vice president of medical services. Pagliaro is also medical director of palliative medicine at Jefferson Health East and serves on its ethics and cancer committees.
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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. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.
Hospice News
MARCH 25, 2024
I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012. I was in charge of the jail system, which had about 10,000 inmates at that time, and we contracted out for medical care across five clinics and had a small inpatient unit. It comes with hiring the right medical directors and clinicians to make sure patients are eligible.
High Peaks Hospice
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Dr. Merkel engaged with his partner Dr. Robert Kasulke to spear head the medical care. Dr. Kasulke became the first High Peaks Hospice Medical Director, and today he continues to serve as Medical Director for the Hospice in Jefferson County. Ann and David gathered a team. Lawrence Counties.
Hospice News
APRIL 26, 2022
I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. We also have a home health aide, a chaplain, a social worker, a patient intake coordinator and a medical director. As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program? Luckily, we have been able to stay fully staffed.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).
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