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. These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.
Hospice News
MARCH 14, 2024
The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. CMS introduced SIA in 2016.
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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.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
In 2013, CHC won the Global Partnership Award presented for a model partnership that others should look at.” In 2016, NHPCO began looking for a new home for Global Partners in Care. Title transfer In 2014, based on input from leaders of U.S.-based With this new direction came a new name – Global Partners in Care.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
2015, 2016. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. Malaz: Yeah.
The Nurse Break
DECEMBER 4, 2022
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. Not just for the bereaved, Bearing the Unbearable will be required reading for grief counselors, therapists and social workers, clergy of all varieties, educators, academics, and medical professionals. Bearing the Unbearable – Dr. Joanne Cacciatore.
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