Hospice News
JANUARY 16, 2023
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. They included VA hospice encounters in the outcome but not enrollment in a home hospice program, nursing home hospice center or Medicare-paid hospice.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
“While we found that hospice length of stay was longer for those enrolling from the community vs hospital or nursing home settings, we overall found that hospice length of stay among MA enrollees was only slightly longer than for those in [traditional Medicare].” This is close to half of all Medicare beneficiaries.
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Hospice News
AUGUST 26, 2022
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is required by the Affordable Care Act to ensure that reimbursement rate changes are budget neutral. An earlier version of budget neutrality was phased out in 2016. The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care.
Hospice News
JUNE 28, 2022
New Hampshire, which scrapped CON in 2016, was the most recent. In this day and age, we’ll see how long CONs last,” Freeman Smith, north region president for Traditions Health told Hospice News at the VALUE Conference in Chicago. Montana removed CONs for all settings except nursing homes as of last October.
Chicago Caregiving
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
The Care Plan helps people navigate healthcare systems not set up for LGBTQ+ or racially diverse caregivers. After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care.
GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
What do we know about the differences between the two types of organizations when we’re thinking about hospice care? One is the patient population and a targeting of for-profit hospices around patients who are going to be potentially less costly and more profitable. People across all diagnoses want hospice care.
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