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Government Funding Bill Extends Telehealth Flexibilities, Averts Cap Cut

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Continued slowdown of hospice caps: The legislation extends the cap calculation methodology implemented by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014. There is no requirement for hospices to use MFTs or MHCs and a social worker is still required if needed under a patient’s plan of care.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Recently, Oreofe Odejide, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues published an analysis of hospice utilization among patients who died with lymphoma, and they made recommendations for improving patient care. 2014; 312 (18): 1888-1896. 2014; 18 (1): 50-55. JNCI J Natl Cancer Inst. J Clin Oncol.