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

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In some cases, a frightened patient or a patient in crisis may call an ambulance or visit and emergency room, prompting revocation of the Medicare Hospice Benefit in order to receive hospital care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. About 15.4% Of those, 5.7% were due to revocations, and 2.2%

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CMS Unveils Dementia-Focused Payment Model with Interdisciplinary Care Approach

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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. Stakeholders in the provider space applauded the model.

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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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Frontline Hospice Staff Need to Understand New CMS Survey Methods

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) efforts to revamp the process, aimed at improving the quality of care. These include rules pertaining to patient rights, initial comprehensive assessments, interdisciplinary care planning and care coordination. The pandemic temporarily stalled the U.S.

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Why Some Referred Patients Never Make It To Hospice

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The company used data from the last quarter of 2020 and the third of 2021. This trend held despite over all growth in the number of individuals who had received discharge instructions to enter hospice, according to Carter Bakkum, senior data analyst for health care insights at Trella Health. . Case in point, the U.S.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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“We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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Hospices Gear Up to Reach More Heart Failure Patients, Enhance Quality 

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As of 2020, those individuals represented only about 10% of Medicare decedents who elected hospice, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The number of people who suffer from heart failure is expected to rise by 46% between 2012 and 2023, the American Heart Association (AHA) reported.

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