Hospice News
JUNE 4, 2024
Furthermore, the development of integrated care models, including collaborative care models, has provided a more comprehensive and coordinated approach to cancer care.” Suicide rates among cancer patients saw a “sharp slump” between 2013 and 2017, with researchers attributing the decrease to several potential factors.
Hospice News
MARCH 3, 2023
The families of patients who received care from nonprofit hospices give their providers higher marks on quality than those who went with for-profits, a RAND Corp. For example, in 2017 for-profits and nonprofits both averaged about six provider visits within the last seven days of life. study has found. or better.”
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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
About 72% of respondents to a National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) survey said they do not believe that the U.S. health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population. Though 74% expressed a positive view of hospice care, only 31% said they trusted the health care system as a whole.
Hospice News
APRIL 4, 2024
“We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S. With Medicare accounting for the overwhelming majority of hospice payments, hospice care is at the mercy of the federal government to continue providing high quality care.
Hospice News
MARCH 29, 2023
But perhaps ironically, patients with longer hospice stays may ultimately save payers more money due to reductions in high acuity and other aggressive forms of care in a patients’ final year of life. Recent data show that hospice stays of six months or longer can reduce health care costs in a patient’s last 12 months by as much as 11%.
Hospice News
JUNE 13, 2023
“The Health Care Fraud Unit and its partners are prioritizing the investigation and prosecution of schemes that affect vulnerable populations, including, but by no means limited to, sober homes fraud, illegal prescribing of controlled substances and hospice fraud,” Miller said. “In According to the U.S.
Hospice News
JUNE 24, 2022
A group of researchers have modified a proposed reimbursement system for palliative care that they say would improve access for patients and make the service more lucrative for providers. The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S.
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