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Providers Leverage Efficiency to Boost Palliative Care ROI

Hospice News

Payers, including Medicare, like to see providers reduce the costs of care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reimbursed palliative care through a fee-for-service model that only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services, rather than the full range of interdisciplinary care.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

Hospice News

Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016. Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff.

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VyncaCare CEO Schulte: Redesign Serious Illness Care for Patients’ Changing Needs

Hospice News

million since its formation in 2013, according to the online startup database Crunchbase. We do traditional Medicare. We do a combination of fee-for-service and case rate contracts with plans we work with, for Medicaid, Medicare and commercial lines of business, including Medicare Advantage. We do fee-for-service.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration. Attendee 15: And so I’m most hopeful for our younger generation so that I can retire.