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Hospice Length of Stay: Balancing Patient Needs Against Regulatory Compliance

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However, those numbers fell by nearly five days in 2021 to 92.1, But perhaps ironically, patients with longer hospice stays may ultimately save payers more money due to reductions in high acuity and other aggressive forms of care in a patients’ final year of life. Hospice length of stay reached an average of 90.2

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3 Palliative Care Providers to Watch

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The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum ultimately did acquire Prospero in early 2021 and is in the process of merging the company with its Landmark subsidiary. Smith said Prospero’s global measure of success is providing more days for patients at home, rather than keeping them in hospitals, nursing homes or rehab facilities.