2022 Caregiver Hospice care Medicare 
Hospice News
APRIL 10, 2024
The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should consider is retiring the six-month terminal prognosis requirement and allowing for some concurrent care, Wallace and Wladkowski indicated.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Vast disparities in hospice utilization exist among some groups and demographics. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.
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Hospice News
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Implementation of the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been challenging for both payers and providers, though a recent analysis indicates that it may get easier over time. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) commissioned the RAND Corp. The RAND analysis released this week covers the calendar year 2022.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Avanlee Care has teamed up with Walmart (NYSE:WMT) to allow families in certain markets to order groceries, health or pharmacy products from the retail giant’s stores through its caregiver support mobile app. Christine said her drive to establish Avanlee grew out of her personal experience with caregiving.
Hospice News
APRIL 11, 2024
.” For the study, researchers conducted interviews and focus groups with Black Americans 18 and older who suffer from a serious illness and their caregivers, producing a number of key findings: Knowledge of palliative and hospice care varied among participants. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking.
Hospice News
APRIL 26, 2023
. “Our new Manhattan branch will headquarter more local staff within the communities they are already serving, allowing us to increase access and convenience to hospice care where there is great need.” A little more than 31,000 Medicare patients in Kansas elected hospice in 2021, according to the U.S.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
And, it’s all about these patients being able to opt into hospice care rather than having to stay in the hospital, or keep going back and forth to clinics to get these transfusions.” the Improving Access to Transfusion Care for Hospice Patients Act of 2023 is currently in Senate review. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.),
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