Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This represents 46% growth in the senior population since 2015. among Medicare decedents in 2018, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. By 2030, one out of every five people living in Indiana will be older than 65, according to the Indiana Business Research Center. states that year at 59.4%.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Yet, Asians, African Americans, and Hispanics represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients in 2018, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according to NHPCO. ““To Yet, the uptake amongst white Medicare beneficiaries remains higher than among their Asian, Black, Hispanic, or Native Americans peers.”. between 2010 and 2019.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

About 21% indicated that their own health was poor in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. Some Medicare Advantage plans also offer some caregiver support services as a supplemental benefit. More than a third (34%) of family caregivers were Baby Boomers in 2020, according to a report from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the United States, about 177,360 children have conditions that warrant palliative care on an annual basis, according to the 2015 report “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life,” published by the National Academies Press. But it goes both ways.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), followed by health plans, usually sets the general tone of quality assessment and incentives, thus influencing the allocation of resources to specific programs in the short and long term. Population health refers to the health outcomes of a specific group or population.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Moral Entrepreneurs Seize the Opportunity Opioid prescribing increased during the mid-1990s after widespread calls to improve pain management, particularly at the end of life (18-21).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Oh my gosh, can’t believe I’ve been here more than once now. Bragging rights. 2017 podcast.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Medicare Policies. Medicare and most other insurances require that people not receive cure-oriented care while in hospice. 2015 Oct 8. Palliat Med. Some doctors or hospitals are more likely to recommend hospice than others. This condition can be scary for patients and families, but it doesn’t need to be.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. We are delighted to welcome Melissa Aldridge to the GeriPal Podcast. Lauren: Hi.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Oregon passed a law in 2015 to create its Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Council. Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. The reasons for this run the gamut.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The hospice organization in 2015 began considering a “retooling” of its C-suite structure in preparation of rising regulatory oversight, Roa said. The hospice organization in 2015 began considering a “retooling” of its C-suite structure in preparation of rising regulatory oversight, Roa said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When the Medicare Hospice Benefit became a permanent program in 1982, its parameters were designed specifically for cancer patients. Longer lengths of stay do generate higher margins , the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported in 2019. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to “modernize” the benefit.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. This integration by Kaiser reflects the ways health systems will need to adapt as they care for the rapidly growing, often chronically ill, Medicare population. Census Bureau. As early as 2011, more than 90% of U.S. For most, this extends to end-of-life care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

The faith-based hospice company received Medicare certification in 2015 and primarily serves an urban region around the Chicago area. The hospice provider also offers pet and music therapy, as well as bereavement support services. has launched a new inpatient hospice facility.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to remain intact. Fratkin founded the home-based palliative care provider in 2015. As the PHE lingers, so do questions around what it has brought to the table for hospices. A continued federally declared emergency allows flexibilities by the U.S.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t thicken it, make sure he gets what he wants. Don’t ask anybody. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast. Carla: Thanks so much. Nice to see you all.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. We look for creative ways, but hospice has its own reimbursement source through Medicare. Speaker 2 ( 00:40 ): Mm-hmm. ,

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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