Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Partners in Care took this unusual step after pursuing every other available means of redress, including the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) review and appeals process, according to CEO Greg Hagfors. The lawsuit contends that the claims denials denied Partners in Care its right to procedural due process.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Calls are growing louder for Congress to build stronger reimbursement and workforce incentives aimed at improving the availability and sustainability of rural-based end-of-life care. A lack of trained hospice and palliative care professionals in rural regions also presents a barrier to access.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population. The research follows up on a 2017 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Economist to gauge whether perceptions of health care had changed in the intervening years, particularly in light of the pandemic.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. The Colorado-based hospice provider began offering PACE programming in 2017. But it goes both ways.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive.

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