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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. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

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Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.

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5 Numbers that Shaped Hospice in 2022

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Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. Hospice utilization fell in 2020 for the first time in years, to 47.8%

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

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This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Reassessing the 2016 Guideline; Creating the 2022 Opioid Guideline As part of a planned assessment process, CDC opened a docket for public comments on its 2016 Guideline in April 2020 (58).

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Yeah.

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