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Hospice Leaders: Change Must Come to the Medicare Hospice Benefit

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Calls have grown louder for an overhauled design of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, but the path towards change is riddled with contrasting views over regulation, policy and payment structures. Part of the problem is that the [Medicare] Hospice Benefit is 40 plus years old. of terminal diagnoses in 2020, while cancer accounted for 7.2%.

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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. 31, 2021, according to a new CMMI white paper. To date, the U.S.

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Congress Seeks Answers from CMS on Hospice Fraud, Quality

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on continuing evidence of hospice fraud and quality issues. Recent evidence indicates that more of these providers are being enrolled in Medicare despite CMS’ efforts to date on curbing fraud and abuse. Coupled with the fraud issue are those associated with quality of care.

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Growing Neuropalliative Care: Overcoming Barriers to Scale

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A huge need exists for neuropalliative care, Dr. Claire J. Creutzfeldt at the Harborview Medical Center’s Department of Neurology told Palliative Care News. Palliative care offers support for a variety of symptoms through interdisciplinary care. But, in addition, stroke leaves people with huge changes in identity.

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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

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Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies.

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CMS Report: Concurrent Hospice, Curative Care a Winning Proposition

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The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been the focus of much attention among providers, and many are watching closely for the demonstration’s outcomes. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care.

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Costs, Short Lengths of Stay Create Barriers to Some Services for Hospice Patients

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) is seeking answers about hospice patients’ access to certain high-cost services. Among them were questions about patients’ utilization of complex care services including blood transfusions, chemotherapy, radiation or dialysis. I think this is a start of that conversation.

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