Hospice News
JUNE 4, 2025
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz has issued a public announcement warning against the most common tactics being employed by fraudulent hospice operators. Theres a Medicare scam out there that can really hurt people, Oz said in a social media post. Together, we can crush fraud, Oz said.
Hospice News
JANUARY 6, 2025
The number of rural hospices declined by 1% on an annual basis between 2018 and 2022, according to a 2024 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) report. Rural caregivers often lack sufficient hospice resources, an increasingly challenging issue amid a swelling aging population with unmet end-of-life needs.
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Hospice News
APRIL 3, 2025
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where he will oversee the nations largest health insurance programs including the Medicare Hospice Benefit. The Medicare trust fund will be insolvent within a decade. In 2018, he was named Professor Emeritus of Surgery. taken out of your paycheck.
AJN Off the Charts
MAY 21, 2025
This discussion should also enable patients without health coverage to find vaccine that may be available through public health programs. Through proactive engagement, advocacy, and personalized care, nurses can ensure that more patients are protected from the pain and complications of shinglesone conversation at a time. Shingles (Herpes Zoster).
Daily Nurse
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Their responses, collected in 2018 and 2019, were matched with hospital-level administrative data and rates of C-sections and vaginal births. The evidence-based standards call for one nurse to one birthing person during many parts of labor, two nurses at birth, and one nurse for each mother-newborn pair in the first few hours after birth.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Private equity transactions represented half of all home health and hospice deals in 2018 and 2019, resulting in a 300% increase in patients enrolled under PE-backed providers, according to research published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Care Compare site.
Hospice News
APRIL 7, 2025
Quality inequities among special needs, dually-eligible beneficiaries Dually-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries may have a lower likelihood of receiving care from high-quality hospice providers, according to a recent analysis. Researchers analyzed quality assessment using nine measures from hospice reports.
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