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Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit

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of patients who were discharged from hospice in 2020 did so while they were still alive, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The post Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit appeared first on Hospice News. About 15.4%

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Thyme Care Launches Palliative Telehealth Service for Cancer Patients

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The oncology-focused value-based enabler Thyme Care has launched a virtual palliative care program, branded as Enhanced Supportive Care. Cancer patients, like many other chronically ill individuals, often benefit from palliative care. Dr. Julia Frydman, formerly of Mt. Sinai Health System, will lead the new service.

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Palliative Care an ‘Important Piece’ of Quality in Oncology Programs

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Oncology practices have increasingly collaborated with palliative care providers — or built their own service lines — to better support cancer patients throughout their health care journeys. Integrating palliative care deeper into oncology practices “empowers” these providers to improve utilization and quality, she indicated.

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CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

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The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care.

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‘Payment and Workforce Are Certainly the Challenges’: Forces Shaping Palliative Care’s Future

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The palliative care field is in the midst of evolution, with reimbursement and workforce dynamics being the dominant forces influencing sustainable growth in the space. Palliative providers are focusing their greatest efforts on navigating choppy, and often lagging, reimbursement streams to meet increased demand for serious illness care.

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CareSource Partnership with Radiant Alliance, to Combine Hospice, Palliative Care, Senior Living and Payer Assets  

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The creation and subsequent partnership with Radiant Alliance will bring a hospice and palliative care company and senior living operator under the auspices of a payer. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare. We are the first to actually do it.”

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] believes that primary care is going to be the answer to this fragmented care problem. Primary care is where it’s at.” Alivia Care came into existence in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services.

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