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Hospice News
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Revocations of the hospice benefit can have serious adverse effects on patients and families, as well as providers. Live discharges can occur for a number of reasons, including the patient or family changing their minds about receiving hospice care, or the patient improves and no longer needs those services. About 15.4%
Hospice News
MARCH 5, 2024
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Hospice News
JANUARY 1, 2024
As hospice providers build out a larger continuum of health care services, some are taking a close look at the primary care space. The term “upstream” has become a watchword in hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] believes that primary care is going to be the answer to this fragmented care problem.
Hospice News
JULY 19, 2023
The incidence of end-stage heart failure is expected to rise throughout the next decade, and hospices are preparing to serve those patients when they become eligible. However, hospice utilization remains relatively low for those patients. Recently, the Chemed Corp.
Hospice News
JULY 31, 2023
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a new payment model demonstration geared toward dementia-related illnesses, which are becoming more prevalent among hospice patients. Participating operators may also receive payment for respite care. So there could be some collaboration there.” million people.
Hospice News
JULY 8, 2022
Hospice referrals appear to be going up. But many patients who get the referral never receive the care due to low health literacy and social determinant of health factors. The company used data from the last quarter of 2020 and the third of 2021. And that means that the the knowledge and awareness of hospice care is growing.”.
Hospice News
JANUARY 2, 2023
The possibility exists that hospice care will change more in the next few years than it has during the previous four decades. The Medicare Hospice Benefit turned 40-years-old in 2022, and in that time the program has remained fundamentally unchanged.
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