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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.”
Hospice News
APRIL 4, 2024
Rural-based hospice providers face a range of challenges to improve access among their underserved patient populations. 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. House of Representatives’ Ways and MeansCommittee.
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Hospice News
MARCH 29, 2023
“For a hospice administrator or executive, you really have to be very focused on your length of stay data,” Young told Hospice News in a recent Elevate podcast episode. Are you in an outlier scenario with your data that Medicare contractors are looking at? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S.
Hospice News
JUNE 13, 2023
Department of Justice (DOJ) is prioritizing hospice as the agency cracks down on health care fraud. DOJ counts hospice claims among the root causes of rising Medicare costs in recent years, according to Lisa Miller, deputy assistant attorney general overseeing the department’s Crime Fraud Section. million.
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. Additionally, the U.S.
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.
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