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Hospice News
MARCH 14, 2024
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. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.
Hospice News
JANUARY 29, 2024
Palliative care is an evolving field. Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. Rising demand In 2024, demand will continue to rise, driven by a number of factors.
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC. hospice leaders.
Hospice News
JANUARY 17, 2024
The letter highlighted the unique challenges that rural and frontier hospice and palliative care providers face, and how strengthened financial support could lead to sustainable access and better care transitions for serious and terminally ill rural-based patients. These individuals are not always in the rural communities.
Hospice News
APRIL 4, 2024
Current reimbursement structures within the federally established Medicare Hospice Benefit do not sufficiently support the level of care needed in rural-based communities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).
Hospice News
JANUARY 17, 2023
The Denver Hospice recently tapped Dr. Robert Howe as its new medical director following the retirement of Dr. Shirlee Turner after 11 years of service at the company. Established in 1978, The Denver Hospice provides care to more than 4,000 hospice and around 1,200 palliative care patients annually in nine counties in Colorado. .
Hospice News
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Changes to the SFP will be top priority for industry groups that will work with policymakers in the new year, according to Logan Hoover, vice president of policy and government relations at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). “We He also wrote some sections of the Affordable Care Act.
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