Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Auditors will review the impact of hospice fraud on the state’s Medicare and Medi-Cal programs, investigate licensing procedures, and evaluate California’s current oversight processes and capabilities. Medi-Cal is the state’s Medicaid program. Last week, a group of hospice industry organizations wrote to U.S.

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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. They also were more likely to eventually accept the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

A federal court has sentenced Liana Karapetyan, former co-owner of California-based ANG Health Care, Excel Hospice, and Excel Home Healthcare, to 18 years in prison for hospice fraud and anti-kickback violations. Based on those claims, Medicare paid the agencies approximately $31 million,” the U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

He and his wife Liana Karapetyan owned ANG Health Care, Excel Hospice, and Excel Home Healthcare in the Sacramento area. Justice Department accused the pair of submitting thousands of false claims to Medicare and of arranging more than $2 million in kickbacks in exchange for referrals. Atoyan pled guilty to the changes.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Social and economic factors like these drive 40% of health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance. For example, 2016 research found that close to 3.6 Health care providers, payers, and other stakeholders are increasingly paying more attention to both social determinants and palliative care, including Medicare and Medicaid.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

Residential is a portfolio company of Graham Healthcare Management, which in turn is a subsidiary of the investment firm Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC). among Medicare decedents in 2018, which is in line with that year’s national average, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Social and economic factors like these drive about 55% of individuals’ health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance. For example, 2016 research found that close to 3.6 The need to address social determinants has been cited as an impetus for the push toward value-based reimbursement. Case in point, the U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

From a business perspective, patient populations who experienced longer lengths of stay boosted hospice margins by as much as 20% during 2016, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The first report shook the industry with findings that around 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a deficiency that posed a serious safety risk. Many established services for the purpose of selling the license at a profit or defrauding Medicare. In response, the U.S.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). What was this group’s aim you ask? Project Overview. Activities Not Assessed (ANA).

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 routinely ranks first in the world in healthcare spending, indicators show that health performance in the country lags well behind other comparable nations. percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 While the U.S.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 routinely ranks first in the world in healthcare spending, indicators show that health performance in the country lags well behind other comparable nations. percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 While the U.S.

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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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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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Nurse.com

JULY 18, 2022

As a nurse practitioner, we diagnose, we prescribe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies, we coordinate care with everybody on the healthcare team.”. This ratio has remained constant even as the number of practicing NPs has exploded in recent years , from 148,000 in 2010 to 222,000 in 2016, to 355,000 by Spring of 2022.

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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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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

The waste in the healthcare system in the United States has been estimated to reach as much as $935 billion, with 25 percent appearing to be avoidable (Shrank, et al. Continuing with this status quo is unsustainable for the future of our healthcare system. This can help improve access to primary versus specialty palliative care.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 14, 2024

And so, when the election happened in 2016 we were working on the water crisis in Flint. I think that this is an appropriate approach coupled with compelling Medicare participating facilities to set staffing levels and monitor outcomes. I stayed in the administration until the very end, the last day. That’s like the question!

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Also while I was studying I was a casual Healthcare Assistant for a health board covering 2 hospitals and a respite/rehabilitation facility, this experience enhanced the academic skills I was learning during my training, and I would highly recommend doing this role while studying. This didn’t really get me anywhere.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

MARCH 25, 2016

Beginning January 2016 two new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for Advance Care Planning (ACP) became effective. Health Care Proxy, Durable power of attorney for healthcare, Living will, and. In fact, Medicare contractors are likely to be watching closely since the codes are new. Examples of Advance Directives.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

AUGUST 28, 2021

And not even 3 weeks ago, it was announced that President Biden approved and made official the ”Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model ” that has been a pilot program in 9 states since 2016. Meaning Medicare’s home health service bill was steadily increasing without justification or proof of quality services being provided.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. But nothing in healthcare. Margot: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. They only started having to publicly report these in 2016.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

With over 25 years of experience in the post-acute care space, she’s worked with many top regional healthcare and home care facilities in Texas, as well as some of the best known agencies nationwide. Now, for those of us in home care, you know, we know original Medicare is not a payer for us. How can we support you?

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