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Compassus Expands Services, Footprint Via Ascension Saint Thomas Partnership

Hospice News

Compassus provides a continuum of home-based services including home health, palliative care and hospice from more than 250 locations across 29 states, including a number of similar partnerships with health systems and other health care providers. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice & Community Care Affiliates with Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

Hospice News

Hospice & Community Care also has two office locations in the state, along with a 24-bed inpatient center, a residential center and a bereavement facility, the Pathways Center for Grief & Loss. It will also allow both hospices to continue offering care to patients, regardless of their ability to pay, according to Knaub.

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Regulatory Focus in Hospice Giving Buyers Pause in M&A Deals

Hospice News

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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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

Hospice News

Before joining Guaranteed, Malone served as vice president of sales and partnerships at mental health provider Thriveworks since 2021. Guaranteed serves Medicare and Medicaid patients across five counties in southern California, including the Los Angeles region.

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Telehealth, Social Determinants Programs Propel Pallitus Health Partners to Double Census Growth

Hospice News

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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Care Synergy Becomes National Center for Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

Hospice News

“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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April 2022: CMS updates National Quality Strategy

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

April 2022, however, also brings us a renewed approach and initiatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its National Quality Strategy. 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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