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Hospice News
MARCH 27, 2024
Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic. In 2017, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded a Condition of Participation pertaining to disaster preparedness planning. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices.
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. “We
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Hospice News
MARCH 29, 2023
Though evidence shows that longer hospice stays reduce costs, providers are still walking a regulatory tightrope. On one hand, longer hospice stays can lead to improved patient and family satisfaction and greater cost saving opportunities. Are you in an outlier scenario with your data that Medicare contractors are looking at?
1-800-HOSPICE
JANUARY 18, 2022
More and more people are choosing to die at home. However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. Hospice Supports Families as Well as Patients. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies.
Hospice Nurse Hero
MARCH 2, 2022
Have you ever wondered why there’s so much hype over hospice CAHPS scores? This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. Secondly, the scores from this survey are followed and recorded by Medicare. WHAT DOES MEDICARE CAHPS REPORT?
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
AUGUST 18, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). What was this group’s aim you ask? Project Overview.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. And so, for-profit hospices, for-profit methadone clinics pop up everywhere, and their care is pretty variable. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today.
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