Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.
Hospice News
JULY 10, 2023
As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Patients are able to access palliative care when they need it and hospice generally sooner than they normally would.” million primary care visits in 2016. About 12% of the 2.1
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Hospice News
JANUARY 1, 2024
“We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The
Hospice News
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Kore Cares will retain its name to provide “continuity” for patients and referral sources, according to the announcement. Established in 2016, Kore Cares is based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and provides personal, home-based care services to seniors in that area. This lagged behind the national average of 50.3%
Hospice News
JANUARY 19, 2024
“These gaps are becoming increasingly apparent due to a multitude of factors that include the general trend of an aging population and a health care system that is increasingly asked to deliver care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions.”
Hospice News
AUGUST 17, 2022
“At this point, we were spinning our wheels quite a bit trying to develop this resource that perhaps really wasn’t wanted by long term care facilities, or at least they didn’t perceive that they needed it.”. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for building their own Medicaid benefit, Sinclair indicated.
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