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5 Numbers that Shaped Hospice in 2022

Hospice News

Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. among Medicare decedents from 51.6%

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

Home Care Pulse

B oth the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) are charged with preventing fraud and abuse related to federal healthcare spending. Financial reasons: Medicare spends 72.10% of their payments for patients with a length of stay greater than 180 days.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). By November 2018, misapplication of the 2016 Guideline had begun to cause serious patient harms, including diminished access to medically appropriate opioid analgesia (41).

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Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish

GeriPal

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. Now, of course, Medicare doesn’t pay for them. Welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Sharon.

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

Hospice News

Most students in clinical disciplines do not feel prepared to provide family care at the end of life, according to a 2018 study. AAHPM president and vice president and national medical director of Aspire Health. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule calling for a 2.7%

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