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What Hospices Can Learn from Home Health Agencies on New Program Integrity Rules

Hospice News

Hospices seeking to gauge the potential impact of new regulatory actions in the space can look to their counterparts in the home health field. CMS is no doubt hoping for similar results for the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Their recommendations included a temporary moratorium on new hospices enrolling in Medicare.

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CMS Proposes ‘36-Month Rule’ to Curb Hospice License ‘Flipping’

Hospice News

Some of these providers have secured licenses, as well as Medicare certification and, sometimes, accreditation. They then proceed to enroll a small number of patients for whom they never bill Medicare, multiple hospice executives told Hospice News on background. By not billing, they are better able to avoid regulators’ attention.

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. Learn more about value-based payments vs fee-for-service in our blog: More home care funding is coming.

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. Learn more about value-based payments vs fee-for-service in our blog: More home care funding is coming.

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AlayaCare Returns to Florida for HomeCareCon July 29 – August 1

AlayaCare

This is the flagship event for the Home Care Association of Florida, which is celebrating 30 years of serving the state’s home care providers and vendors. This includes over 16 million adults, of whom nearly four million are seniors – who we know are the main recipients of home and continued care.

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Voices: Mark Kulik, Senior Managing Director, The Braff Group

Hospice News

I started out at a company called American Hospital Supply Corporation back in the 70s when hospitals were the center of all health care. At that time, the company was predicting home care would be the future — obviously, they were right. Of course, it still remains the lowest cost setting for the delivery of health care.

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OIG Audits of Hospice Eligibility Are Coming in FY 2023–Are You Ready?

Home Care Pulse

Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Financial reasons: Medicare spends 72.10% of their payments for patients with a length of stay greater than 180 days. In 2018, that amounted to just over 13.8 Are You Prepared?

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