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Intrepid USA Settles FCA Allegations for Home Health, Hospice Claims

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The Justice Department alleges that 19 Intrepid locations between 2016 and 2021 submitted home health Medicare claims for ineligible patients. “This settlement reflects our commitment to ensuring that these benefits are used to care for those who need them and not just to enrich those who seek to provide them.”

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Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Less Likely to Receive Aggressive End-of-Life Care

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For the study, researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018. “Financial incentives to reduce costs in MA appear to promote less use of potentially burdensome treatments but also leave some patients without home-based or facility care after hospitalization.”

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IntellaTriage Acquires NurseLine

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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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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

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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

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

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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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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

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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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