Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Although Pallitus is part of the Hosparus Health family, it has been establishing itself as an individual entity since 2021. With a service area that includes 41 counties throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana, Pallitus is focused on helping people live better and longer with quality palliative care programs. .”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

A leading cause of fraud involves hospices billing Medicare for services for which patients were not eligible, according to a 2021 report from Bass, Berry, & Sims. In response to the 2019 OIG reports, Congress included hospice quality checks amid the requirements established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Before joining Guaranteed, Malone served as vice president of sales and partnerships at mental health provider Thriveworks since 2021. Prior to that, she was chief nursing officer at the Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center, also holding leadership roles at Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care and Capital Hospice, now Capital Caring.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 12, 2022

1, 2021, D75.839 “Thrombocytosis, unspecified,” took effect and was mapped to the clinical category of “Cardiovascular and Coagulations.”. However, CMS notes there are more specific codes to indicate why a patient with thrombocytosis would require SNF care. 1, 2021, F32.A, Let’s review the proposals together. Reason: Oct.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

“We really do see the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives — especially as people are aging — and you think of the costs associated with leaving their homes and going into assisted living or a long-term care environment,” Tricia Ford, vice president of operations for Care Synergy, told Hospice News. “In

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AJN Off the Charts

JULY 14, 2022

Results, which were published in the November 2021 International Journal of Nursing Studies , showed that day and night nurses performed well in clinical simulation activities regardless of fatigue, but small differences in communication skills were found, with night nurses having slightly worse skills than day nurses.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 28, 2022

September 2021 – CMS continued to modernize the Care Compare sites to increase transparency and ensure that all individuals that CMS serves, as well as their families and caregivers, have the information to make informed care decisions. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 3, 2022

Of the estimated 60-plus transactions during 2021, at least 39, or 65%, were private-equity based, a rise from 56% in 2020. Moreover, the proportion of hospice and home health transactions that involved private equity firms rose by 25% between 2011 and 2021, Braff reported.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 4, 2024

We also have the AI that is defined for actual use during care provision. These are also defined by the AMA and were accepted in September 2021 by the CPT® Editorial Panel with the addition of a new Appendix S. For this area there are currently three categories for AI applications. Have a column idea?

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The World According to Dr. El

APRIL 19, 2022

It’s telling and unsettling that my most popular column in 2021 was titled, “ How to keep working in LTC (when you’re not sure how much more you can take).”. The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 26, 2022

You can choose from a surprising array of care settings: inpatient psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, schools, long-term care centers, or even correctional facilities. You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. Inpatient hospital units.

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The World According to Dr. El

MARCH 8, 2022

President Biden’s State of the Union address last week targeted several aspects of the long-term care industry, most of which have received more attention than his mention of reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications. empty beds), that number will likely be higher once the 2021 data comes in.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 11, 2023

in 2022, up from 7.79% in 2021. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.

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Boca Home Care Services

MAY 30, 2022

Besides an aging care manager, a home health aide can assist in your parent’s home, based on their best schedule, typically four hours a day. There are also ways to pay for this that many do not know about: long-term care insurance, Claims Conference-Holocaust reparations (claimscon.org), the VA, and Medicaid waivers.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. After consecutive years of consistently meeting high Press Ganey (patient.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 9, 2022

CMS subsequently expanded the list of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes on March 30, 2021, resulting in a more comprehensive list of eligible telehealth services provided by therapists. The original expansion included a limited set of telehealth services. So, what happens at the end of the PHE?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Here we are wrapping up 2021, two years after that TEPs work led to the implementation of PDPM and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently announced two new technical expert panels (TEPs) focusing on key areas of quality. Well, great news! The contract number is 75FCMC18D0015, Task Order 75FCMC19F0003.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

– Trend #4: Agency Owners Are Still Worried About COVID-19—Making 2021 the First Year it Ranks as One of Their Top Threats. Trend #4: Agency Owners Are Still Worried About COVID-19—Making 2021 the First Year it Ranks as One of Their Top Threats. Unlock the most comprehensive data on the private duty home care industry.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 31, 2022

We were first introduced to this concept in a November 2021 press release from CMS titled: CMS Repeals MCIT/R&N Rule; Will Consider Other Coverage Pathways to Enhance Access to Innovative Medical Devices. For this reason, above all others, therapists having an understanding of DMPAG is vital in 2022 and rule making years ahead of us.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

So if you remember all these vaccine allocation plans where you had the first tier maybe for much older adults or people in long term care facilities or something, and then the second tier might have been people over 50 or people working in highly exposed jobs. Eric: As a political ideology or political manipulation?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

It extends the organizations’ existing partnership for hospital-based palliative care services, bringing this care into more settings such as hospitals, physician offices, long-term care facilities and in the home.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Among the applicants to join the council was Barbara Hansen, CEO of the Oregon Hospice & Palliative Care Association, who became a member in 2018. The Oregon advisory group began producing a website to inform health care providers about palliative care, with a particular focus on long term care organizations.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 27, 2023

To begin, the target areas are constructed as ratios and expressed as percentages; the numerator represents episodes of care that may be identified as problematic, and the denominator represents episodes of care of a larger comparison group. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 26, 2022

This will be either a patient control number (found at form locator 03a on the UB-04 claim form) or a medical record number (found at form locator 03b on the UB-04 claim form) for a traditional Medicare Part A Fee-for-Service patient who received services from July 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2021 (“from” or “through” dates on a paid claim).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. We also touch briefly on topics discussed in prior podcasts such as loneliness and federal responses to the pandemic in relation to long-term care.

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Hearts for Home Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As Baby Boomers continue to age and the population of older adults needing long-term care increases, the need for caregivers will continue to increase as well. COVID has only exacerbated this issue, with a mass exodus of health care workers no longer willing to risk their lives for a career that yields an average of only $12.40/hour.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 3, 2022

ACOs work to improve chronic disease management, ensure smoother transitions from hospitals to homes, and promote preventive care that keeps patients healthy. The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

Perhaps one of the most impacted was nursing homes and long-term care facilities. during 2021. Post-COVID-19 focus No matter the setting, COVID-19 had an impact on hundreds of thousands of patients and healthcare professionals. million COVID-19 cases have been recorded in those settings, along with 164,285 deaths.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: First is Darrell Owens, who’s Associate Medical Director of Palliative Care at the University of Washington Northwest Campus. Alex: And second is Jim Wright, who is medical director of two long-term care and skilled nursing facilities in Richmond, Virginia: Our Lady of Hope and Westminster Canterbury.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 4, 2022

A total of 21 million newly eligible Medicaid beneficiaries as of April 2022 enrolled under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion program. Medicare: In 2021, Medicare covered 63.8 In 2021, 0.6% In 2021, Medicare Part D provides affordable prescription drug coverage to over 48.8 million people: 55.8

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