Remove 2020 Remove Care coordination Remove Medicare Remove Palliate
article thumbnail

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

Hospice News

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%

article thumbnail

CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

Hospice News

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.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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

Hospice News

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.

Palliate 208
article thumbnail

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

Hospice News

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.

article thumbnail

CMS Unveils Dementia-Focused Payment Model with Interdisciplinary Care Approach

Hospice News

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.

Medicare 241
article thumbnail

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

Hospice News

As of 2020, those individuals represented only about 10% of Medicare decedents who elected hospice, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Care Dimensions is among the 15 hospice organizations to date that have secured the AHA’s Palliative and Hospice Heart Failure Certification.

2011 243
article thumbnail

Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospice News

“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

2016 162