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Telling the ‘Story of Hospice’ in 2023: Perspectives from 8 Industry Leaders

Hospice News

We’ve heard from the [Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)] on the 20% payment cap reduction. If we look at some of the decks and slide presentations on the Medicare Advantage carve-in, going back to 2018, it’s the same information, and we’re still talking about impacting change.

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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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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

Hospice News

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule calling for a 2.7% Resurrecting PCHETA.

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. We look for creative ways, but hospice has its own reimbursement source through Medicare. Speaker 2 ( 00:40 ): Mm-hmm. , What do you think Barbara?

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

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Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. I wonder if we can just start off just going back a little bit because we had Randy on back in 2018 talking about Jumpstart, priming patients to do goals of care conversations. Am I summarizing that right?

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