NHPCO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a community, we are profoundly disappointed with this decision. Over the past two years, the national hospice associations have presented CMS — in letters, in-person meetings and via other channels — with a wide array of research and well-supported advocacy outlining our concerns.

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of 2020 allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover supplemental non-medical benefits , including those designated as “general supports for living,” which can include some forms of housing assistance. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). For about 8.6

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Diversity in population can yield diverse presentations of symptoms,” Kozlov said. Roughly 82% of Medicare decedents in 2018 were Caucasian, according to NHPCO. Depression symptoms can appear differently in Black and Latinx as compared to white individuals.”. Racial divides have proliferated access to hospice services nationwide.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

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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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or be unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations. The financial burden on caregivers is associated with a range of negative outcomes , according to a 2020 BMC Palliative Care study. founders of Mettle Health.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

During the conference at the National Hospice Foundation’s 2023 Gala, NHPCO honored the outstanding contributions of Judi Lund Person and Norman McRae to the community by presenting each of them with the Galen Miller Leadership Award. He presently serves on the NHPCO Board as Immediate Past Chair.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 7, 2022

We learned that organizational system issues were present and acknowledged, yet RaDonda was held individually accountable, prosecuted, and convicted. Okpala, 2020). Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. 2020; 13(S1): 199–205. Finally, all nurses need to become politically active.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 14, 2020

Here we lay out an assortment of presentations we plan on attending within themes that are driving home care into the near future. For two years we’ve watched the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unlock more opportunities for home care providers via Medicare Advantage supplemental benefit plans.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

According to the Administration on Aging, in 2020, the population of 65 and older numbered 55.7 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. To help improve the diagnostic process, consider the potential unintended consequences of pursuing a specific diagnosis: Are factors present that do not align with the diagnosis?

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Nurse.com

JUNE 3, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that home care expenditures are expected to reach $201B by 2028, a 73% increase from 2020. This overload is just one of the many new challenges for nurses presented by the pandemic. Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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). Posted on April 17, 2020.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 31, 2022

To begin, as noted by the AMA, digital medicine presents an opportunity to improve access and to offer cost-effective medical care to a large swath of patients with varied needs. This initial set of codes became effective in 2019, and in 2020 an additional code was created to report additional physician/QHP time related to remote monitoring.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed new pathways to support family caregivers for patients with serious illnesses. Terminally ill patients who lack care from family or friends are often less likely to choose hospice, a 2020 study found.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. And moreover, about 40% of those patients with POLST had last signed it or filled it out two years prior to that presentation.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I did all of my research training in health services research, health policy, and then was very grateful to be recruited by Dr. Christine Ritchie when she transitioned here to MGH in September of 2020. And so I knew that I wanted to do something related to palliative care because I work with people with advanced and serious illness.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 17, 2021

These diseases of course are still present; for families and their health-care teams, it’s just become more challenging to manage them. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , for instance, announced a new strategy to add flexibility to the U.S. heal th-care system outside traditional hospital settings.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

The renewed focus on how infection control in nursing is presented to healthcare professionals is among the major lessons learned since 2020. According to 2023 data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website, more than 1.5 Perhaps one of the most impacted was nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Before that healthcare was cooking along really growing and then this balanced budget act was passed in 1997 and it drastically slashed Medicare reimbursement amounts for services across the continuum. And then in 2020, I was lucky enough through various circumstances to HCP. You know, CMS was looking to save 1.6

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 7, 2022

By federal law, the caregiver benefits you are required to offer to full-time employees are: Social Security, Medicare, and Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). When you’re feeling the pressure of a caregiver shortage, it can be tempting to present an idealized view of caregiving. Unemployment insurance.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 4, 2022

Additionally, we received press releases related to CMS Acts to Improve the Safety and Quality of Care of the Nation’s Nursing Homes and CMS Seeks Public Feedback to Improve Medicare Advantage. Background: Nearly 140 million Americans (74 million for Medicaid, nearly 64 million for Medicare) benefit today from Medicaid and Medicare.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to understand what this would look like under Medicare.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

This includes the separate COVID-19 national emergency, both declared by President Donald Trump in 2020. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to waive some regulatory requirements, such as expanded access to telehealth, including for recertifications. A federally declared emergency allows the U.S.

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