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Limited Access to Post-Acute Care Fuels Readmission Rates

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The availability of post-acute resources, including hospice and palliative care, has a significant impact on hospital readmissions, but greater coordination among providers could drive improvement. Researchers included a recommendation that CMS take community characteristics into account when evaluating hospital performance. .

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Hospice Length of Stay: Balancing Patient Needs Against Regulatory Compliance

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“For a hospice administrator or executive, you really have to be very focused on your length of stay data,” Young told Hospice News in a recent Elevate podcast episode. Are you in an outlier scenario with your data that Medicare contractors are looking at? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S.

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