1-800-HOSPICE
MARCH 21, 2023
2 Researchers analyzed Medicare records for 18,777 patients who died with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), aggressive NHL, or mantle cell lymphoma. Compared to all Medicare beneficiaries who died with cancer, patients with lymphoma proved 23% less likely to receive hospice, and they tended to have fewer days in hospice.
GeriPal
JULY 21, 2022
Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. As is the case for many issues in geriatrics: some of the time, not all the time. I think it was 2014, but we did a survey of driving rehabilitation specialists in the U.S. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. I don’t know.
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GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.
Hospice News
AUGUST 18, 2022
Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. of Medicare decedents elected hospice during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 12, 2022
In addition to acquisitions, LHC was involved in 30 out of the 69 joint ventures that completed in the hospice and home health space from 2014 to 2021, Kulik said. The divestiture fits into Humana’s stated goal of raising its enterprise value by $1 billion , while building out its health care services and Medicare Advantage business.
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