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WellSky Intent on Expanding Footprint, Presence Across Care Continuum

Hospice News

These types of data will also be important when hospices begin to negotiate rates with private payers through value-based programs like Medicare Advantage. The Kansas-based company reports that it has quadrupled in size since 2017, now employing a staff of 2,200 worldwide. That was a gut-check decision.

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

But onward to post-acute care and what we see coming in the future. . Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act.

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April 2022: CMS updates National Quality Strategy

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

April 2022, however, also brings us a renewed approach and initiatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its National Quality Strategy. 2017 – CMS developed a new quality measures framework focused on increasing measure alignment across CMS programs and other public and private initiatives.

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From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

Hospice News

CAPC’s Sinclair is the vice chair of Nebraska’s Palliative Care Task Force, formed by a state law passed in 2017. Currently, Medicare reimburses for palliative care physician and licensed independent practitioner services through fee-for-service programs that often do not sufficiently support the full range of interdisciplinary care.