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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

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.

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Limited Access to Post-Acute Care Fuels Readmission Rates

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) penalizes hospitals for readmissions rates that exceed certain thresholds, but the agency does not account for the supply of post-acute providers available to patients in a providers’ service region.

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Hospice Length of Stay: Balancing Patient Needs Against Regulatory Compliance

Hospice News

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. In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Young told Hospice News.

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AlayaCare Returns to Florida for HomeCareCon July 29 – August 1

AlayaCare

As purely objective observers, this particular presentation (in the Private Duty stream) is not to be missed. Our industry had revenue of $9 billion in 2018 , with six percent more businesses in service than back in 2013. As an appetizer, feel free to check out our article from last winter that attracted some attention. million people.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Presented on February 10, 2022, for the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (Virtual Conference). Trends and Geographic Patterns in Drug and Synthetic Opioid Overdose Deaths - United States, 2013-2019.

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Regulators Taking Aim at Hospice PE Backers

Hospice News

Medicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve and expect.”. Ginn made these comments in a presentation at the Bank of America Securities Annual Healthcare Conference in Las Vegas. That ends on my watch,” Biden said.

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PEPPER Report: Target areas for rehab

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

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).