2017 Hospice care Medicare Social worker 
Hospice News
MARCH 14, 2024
Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. 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. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.
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
JANUARY 17, 2024
Among the signatories were 63 hospice and palliative care providers across the country, 14 state hospice and palliative associations, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the health care technology company Axxess. These individuals are not always in the rural communities.
Hospice News
JANUARY 29, 2024
Their desire to remain at home dovetails with the drive among payers and providers to reduce health care expenditures by reducing avoidable hospitalizations, readmissions and emergency department visits. Palliative care in general can reduce health care costs by more than $4,000 per patient, according to a July 2017 study in Health Affairs.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 8, 2023
This includes the revamping of the hospice survey process and the establishment of a Special Focus Program slated to begin in 2024, to name a few. What we would love for our lawmakers to do is really champion the program as it exists and make sure it’s protected from threats to its payment system,” Baird told Hospice News.
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