2013 Hospice Medicare Presentation 
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. In the study, researchers present the case of an independent 87-year-old woman with moderate dementia admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. After exhausting her Medicare benefits, she depleted her assets and paid out of pocket until qualifying for Medicaid.
Hospice News
MARCH 29, 2023
Though evidence shows that longer hospice stays reduce costs, providers are still walking a regulatory tightrope. On one hand, longer hospice stays can lead to improved patient and family satisfaction and greater cost saving opportunities. Are you in an outlier scenario with your data that Medicare contractors are looking at?
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Hospice News
JULY 5, 2022
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. Then you increase your likelihood of being bounced back to the hospital as your health declines.”.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Competing Interests : Dr. Kollas recently served as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Anderson Cancer Center Orlando.
Hospice News
JUNE 23, 2022
Private equity firms are pouring investment dollars into hospices at a record pace. Despite a cool down in the hospice mergers and acquisitions market during the first quarter of 2022, private equity firms have stayed aggressive on deals. Private equity investors are likely to stay bullish on hospice.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
MAY 26, 2022
This will be either a patient control number (found at form locator 03a on the UB-04 claim form) or a medical record number (found at form locator 03b on the UB-04 claim form) for a traditional Medicare Part A Fee-for-Service patient who received services from July 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2021 (“from” or “through” dates on a paid claim).
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive. How do I reconcile these two issues?
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