Hospice News
MAY 27, 2022
These include the audit system created by Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014, and the two-tiered reimbursement for routine home care that reduced payment amounts after 60 days. Designed to prevent misuse of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, these efforts may have had unintended consequences.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Hospices are seeking greater clarity on updated Medicare rules that allow hospices to document a broader range of chaplain services on claims. The three HCPCS codes were initially rolled out for the VA in 2019 after previous spiritual care billing codes were discontinued in 2014.
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Hospice News
JUNE 27, 2022
Social and economic factors like these drive 40% of health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance. Home-based palliative care could reduce societal health care costs by $103 billion within the next 20 years, the nonprofit economic research group Florida TaxWatch indicated in a 2019 report. Case in point, the U.S.
Hospice News
JULY 15, 2022
After a moratorium during the pandemic, Medicare sequestration resumed July 1. Hospice and other health care providers are once again seeing their Medicare payments slashed by 2% across the board. Sequestration was established in 2014 by the Budget Control Act. It included a 2.7% per diem rate increase.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 22, 2022
In 2019, the organization had just 200 members. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. The 2019 average length of stay for dementia patients was 126 days, compared to 92.6
Hospice News
JUNE 16, 2022
A total of 109 transactions in the hospice and home health space involved a hospital and health system from 2014 to 2021, according to market analysis data that The Braff Group shared with Hospice News. Through the hospice benefit, Medicare covers nearly 90% of a provider’s patient care revenue.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
JULY 21, 2022
Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act. But onward to post-acute care and what we see coming in the future. .
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