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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Yet he never formally served as a leader or member of PROP, and until the CDC NCIPC-BSC Meeting on July 16, 2021, Chou avoided all allegations of conflicts of interest (COI) between his opioid research and co-authorship of the 2016 Guideline, unlike several other PROP members (2). Activities that did not pose a conflict (e.g.,

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California’s Leads the State-Level Battle Against Hospice Fraud

Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

The first report indicated that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious safety risk. The agency identified 313 hospices nationwide as “poor performers” in 2016, representing 18% of the total number of providers surveyed that year.

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IntellaTriage Acquires NurseLine

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

NurseLine was founded in 2016 to offer nationwide nurse-based triage services during nights, weekends, and holidays, aiming to reinforce providers’ clinical teams and boost efficiency. The exact dollar amount of these investments were confidential. ” The post IntellaTriage Acquires NurseLine appeared first on Hospice News.

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Partners in Care Sues HHS Over Claims Denials

Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

1, 2016 and Dec. The lawsuit contends that the claims denials denied Partners in Care its right to procedural due process. OIG, on behalf of CMS, informed the hospice that it would be audited in a May 2018 letter. The audit examined medical and billing records for 100 patients from Jan.

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Primary-Palliative Care Model Improved Quality, Cost Savings

Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Founded in 2016, agilon health, inc. The study showed that patients enrolled in a primary care-led, integrated palliative care program delivered within a full-risk model spent an average of five more days at home during their final months and were almost two-thirds less likely to die in a hospital.

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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Advance directives (AD) and other goals-of-care documentation often lack information related to cultural, religious and spiritual affiliations, as well as personal health values, the 2016 research indicated. Fewer than 24% of Black participants had completed an advance directive, compared to 44% of caucasians who had.

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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2 Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes and other facilities received 3.2

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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2 Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2

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Federal Court Dismisses Care Alternatives Hospice Fraud Case

Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in 2016. Escobar’s] factors ‘could support a materiality finding’ not because the evidence definitively points towards materiality — it does not — but because on this record, a reasonable jury could conclude that Care Alternatives’ alleged violations were material.”

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US Annual Health Care Expenditures Show Signs of Post-Pandemic Normalization

Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From 2016 through 2019, the average share was 17.5%. The proportion of health care spending relative to the overall economy was 17.3%, also down from 2020’s rate of 19.5%. Again, the data indicates movement towards normalization. billion in 2022.

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Former Canon Healthcare Owner Convicted for $47 Million in Hospice Fraud

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Between 2013 and 2016, the company billed Medicare for $62 million and received $47 million in payments, according to the U.S. Canon Healthcare was a New Orleans-based hospice provider that also served the Baton Rouge and Covington, Louisiana, markets, as well as parts of Mississippi. Justice Department.

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Memory Care Residents See Higher Mortality, Hospice Utilization Rates

Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

Researchers followed the care of 15,152 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias who moved to residential or assisted living facilities with more than 25 beds between 2016 and 2018. Subsequently, they used statistical tools to analyze the collected data.

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Investigators, Prosecutors Take on Hospice Fraud in California, Arizona

Hospice News

APRIL 6, 2023

Since 2016, the Arizona-based hospitalist physician group has provided hospice and palliative care at the HonorHealth Shea Medical Center. Reportedly, SPG may have submitted more than 15,000 false billing claims since 2016. Ghadimi is accused of misusing Medicare payments. He is also under investigation for kickbacks.

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How Medicare Budget Neutrality Impacts Hospice Payment

Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

An earlier version of budget neutrality was phased out in 2016. CMS introduced SIA in 2016 to allow hospices to bill for RHC at the continuous home care rate on an hourly basis for registered nurse and social worker visits during the last seven days of a patient’s life. These reductions occur within each service.

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VITAS Makes C-Suite, EVP Promotions; Westfall Named Chairman

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

He became CEO in 2016. Westfall came to VITAS in 2012 as senior vice president of field operations. Three years later, he was appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer.

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HCA Healthcare Launches Hospice, Palliative Care Fellowship Program in Florida

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Minority groups represented 28% of Florida’s seniors in 2016, according to a report from the state’s Department of Elder Affairs. Socioeconomically, 29% of seniors statewide fell into a “low-income” category during 2016, while 30% live in rural areas, according to the Elder Affairs report.

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Researchers Link Social Determinants to Pain Management in End-of-Life Care

Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Researchers examined patient data for 48,631 Medicare hospice decedents from 2008 to 2016 across 15 states. Black or Latino patients in socially vulnerable areas were less likely to utilize hospice than white patients, and there’s a compounding effect on end-of-life pain management.”

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Study: 40% of Adults Don’t Want to Talk About Palliative Care

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The results show that people were less inclined to discuss palliative care than they were in previous surveys in 2015 and 2016. The survey polled 1,000 people in the Republic of Ireland throughout July 2023.

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Four Skills You’ll Need When Supporting a Person Exploring MAID

Life & Death Matters

MARCH 3, 2023

In June 2016, MAID became legal in Canada. There are very few issues in healthcare right now that generate stronger emotions than MAID – Medical Assistance in Dying. Since then, some of the people who met the criteria for MAID have chosen to die with MAID.

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Residential Hospice Acquires Safe Haven

Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Celtic and Residental merged in 2016 to form Graham Healthcare Group. A year later, the Washington Post Company sold its news assets to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeffrey Bezos and reorganized under the Graham Holdings name. Graham went on to acquire Residential Hospice in 2014.

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CMS Report: Concurrent Hospice, Curative Care a Winning Proposition

Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care. The recent report focuses on 4,574 Medicare beneficiaries who enrolled in the program between January 2016 and September 2020 and who died by March of 2021.

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OIG Estimates $42 Million in Improper Medicare Payments for Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Office settings accounted for 61% of all ACP billing between 2016 and 2019, according to OIG. CMS in 2016 began to reimburse physicians and other qualified Medicare health care professionals for face-to-face advance care planning discussions with patients and families. This opened the door for greater advance care planning utilization.

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UnitedHealth Group Taps CFO John Rex as President

Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

Rex was tapped to become UnitedHealth Group’s executive vice president and CFO in 2016. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. McMahon stepped down on April 1 after more than 20 years with the company. He came to the mammoth insurance company in 2012 through its subsidiary and health care services arm Optum. and senior analyst at J.P.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2 Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

CMS introduced SIA in 2016. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a financial incentive to foster better performance on the measure, the service-intensity add-on.

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Comfort Care Homes Build Bridges to Hospice for Underserved Patients

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Hildegard of Bingen, the facility is a former convent that admitted its first resident in 2016 after undergoing about a year of renovations. . Also, the depletion of a family’s financial resources is a greater predictor of aggressive treatment at the end of life than patient preferences or demographic factors, a 2016 study concluded. .

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New California Law Further Tightens Hospice License Oversight

Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The first report indicated that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious safety risk. The agency identified 313 hospices nationwide as “poor performers” in 2016, representing 18% of the total number of providers surveyed that year.

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CMS: Concurrent Hospice Care Improves Quality, Reduces Costs

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The agency launched the MCCM in 2016. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its fifth and final report on the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM), which studied the effects of allowing individuals to receive hospice care without foregoing other treatments.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016. Cottrell has led the nonprofit hospice organization since September 2016. Before joining Guaranteed, Malone served as vice president of sales and partnerships at mental health provider Thriveworks since 2021.

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Palliative Care Yield Cost Savings Lymphoma Patients, But Racial Disparities Exist

Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The researchers examined hospitalization statistics for 10,323 deceased patients from the National Inpatient Sample between January 2016 to December 2019. Of those 5,464 had received palliative care. The study found that on average palliative care generated cost savings of $24,269 per patient.

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Hospice Groups, AOs Speak Out on Proposed Accreditor Oversight Rule

Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

The first OIG report indicated that about 80% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had deficiencies in compliance. Legislators added the hospice language in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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U.S. Senators Reintroduce Telehealth Bill, Would Make Permanent Hospice Recertification Waiver

Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

The first version of the bill was introduced in 2016. The waiver pertaining to routine home care, which ended with the PHE on May 11, was not mentioned in the bill text. The history of the CONNECT Act extends before the pandemic. Some provisions from that initial draft have been implemented piecemeal over the years.

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2 Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2

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Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

Activities Not Assessed (ANA). For all my “If you didn’t code it, it didn’t happen” crew out there, you will appreciate this discussion. For the functional outcome measures currently implemented in the LTCH, IRF, and SNF QRPs, all ANA codes are recoded to 1 (dependent) when calculating measure scores.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In September 2021, Pallimed published our second commentary, which focused on the astonishing disclosure of an important conflict-of-interest (COI) by Dr. Roger Chou (5), who co-authored the 2016 Guideline, calling its integrity into question (4, 5).

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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

The pilot, which ran from September 2015 through February 2016, had 82 patients enrolled across four counties and palliative care organizations: Collabria Care in Napa, Interim Healthcare in Redding, ResolutionCare in Eureka and YoloCares in Davis.

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Federal Spending Bill Would Extend Hospice Recertification Via Telehealth Through 2024

Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This practice was first implemented by the IMPACT Act for years 2016 through 2025 and was previously extended to 2023. The post Federal Spending Bill Would Extend Hospice Recertification Via Telehealth Through 2024 appeared first on Hospice News.

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Support Mounts for Increased Hospice Accreditor Oversight

Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2024

The first report indicated that roughly 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors from 2012 to 2016 had a condition-level deficiency posing a safety risk. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The second report included specific safety risk examples.

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Appellate Ruling in Care Alternatives FCA Case May Set New Precedent

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in 2016. Escobar’s] factors ‘could support a materiality finding’ not because the evidence definitively points towards materiality — it does not — but because on this record, a reasonable jury could conclude that Care Alternatives’ alleged violations were material.” In that ruling, New Jersey U.S.

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YoloCares to Double Geographic Footprint

Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

Its palliative care program launched in 2016. The regional hospice collaborative group of nonprofit hospice and palliative providers also includes Hospice of the Foothills and Hospice of Santa Cruz County. YoloCares has an adult day program and offers caregiver and advance care planning services, along with grief support.

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MA Beneficiaries More Likely than Fee-for-Service Patients to Enter Hospice from Community Setting

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

million patients who elected hospice in the last 90 days of life during the years 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018. .” For this study, researchers examined medical records for a cohort of nearly 3.2 Years prior to 2018 showed similar patterns.

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Facility-Bound Hospice Patients Less Likely to Get SIA Visits

Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced SIA in 2016. “This [variation] largely occurs because hospices cannot provide SIA when the level of care is not [routine home care],” they said during the assembly.

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VA Study Finds 95% Increase in Palliative Care Utilization When Patients Have Access to Social Workers

Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Researchers analyzed records for 43,200 veterans with prior hospitalization who had received primary care at a VA site between October 2016 and September 2019. Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found.

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Former Hospice Executive Facing Federal Wage Fixing Charges

Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

Lopez is charged with agreeing to “suppress and eliminate competition” for nursing services between March 2016 and May 2019, the U.S. Justice Department has indicted Eduardo Lopez, a former hospice executive and current senior vice president of a private equity firm, for violations of the Sherman Act. Justice Department has indicated.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

California’s Leads the State-Level Battle Against Hospice Fraud

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IntellaTriage Acquires NurseLine

Partners in Care Sues HHS Over Claims Denials

Primary-Palliative Care Model Improved Quality, Cost Savings

Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

Federal Court Dismisses Care Alternatives Hospice Fraud Case

US Annual Health Care Expenditures Show Signs of Post-Pandemic Normalization

Former Canon Healthcare Owner Convicted for $47 Million in Hospice Fraud

Memory Care Residents See Higher Mortality, Hospice Utilization Rates

Investigators, Prosecutors Take on Hospice Fraud in California, Arizona

How Medicare Budget Neutrality Impacts Hospice Payment

VITAS Makes C-Suite, EVP Promotions; Westfall Named Chairman

HCA Healthcare Launches Hospice, Palliative Care Fellowship Program in Florida

Researchers Link Social Determinants to Pain Management in End-of-Life Care

Study: 40% of Adults Don’t Want to Talk About Palliative Care

Four Skills You’ll Need When Supporting a Person Exploring MAID

Residential Hospice Acquires Safe Haven

CMS Report: Concurrent Hospice, Curative Care a Winning Proposition

OIG Estimates $42 Million in Improper Medicare Payments for Advance Care Planning

UnitedHealth Group Taps CFO John Rex as President

Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Comfort Care Homes Build Bridges to Hospice for Underserved Patients

New California Law Further Tightens Hospice License Oversight

CMS: Concurrent Hospice Care Improves Quality, Reduces Costs

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

Palliative Care Yield Cost Savings Lymphoma Patients, But Racial Disparities Exist

Hospice Groups, AOs Speak Out on Proposed Accreditor Oversight Rule

U.S. Senators Reintroduce Telehealth Bill, Would Make Permanent Hospice Recertification Waiver

Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

Federal Spending Bill Would Extend Hospice Recertification Via Telehealth Through 2024

Support Mounts for Increased Hospice Accreditor Oversight

Appellate Ruling in Care Alternatives FCA Case May Set New Precedent

YoloCares to Double Geographic Footprint

MA Beneficiaries More Likely than Fee-for-Service Patients to Enter Hospice from Community Setting

Facility-Bound Hospice Patients Less Likely to Get SIA Visits

VA Study Finds 95% Increase in Palliative Care Utilization When Patients Have Access to Social Workers

Former Hospice Executive Facing Federal Wage Fixing Charges

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