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Hospice News
JUNE 14, 2023
annually between 2022 and 2031, reaching $7.1 Meanwhile, Medicare hospice spending is expected to more than double by 2032. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary also project that health care expenditures will represent 19.6% ” In 2022, CMS paid $23.9 These data from the U.S.
Hospice News
APRIL 17, 2023
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. Reimbursement for palliative care in fee-for-service Medicare currently only covers physician or nurse practitioner services.
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High Peaks Hospice
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
That year Medicare determined that dying was no longer a diagnosis that warranted a hospital admission. Families were struggling to manage the death of their loved ones unsupported at home. Families were struggling to manage the death of their loved ones unsupported at home. In 1986 Ann and her husband, the late Dr. C.
Hospice News
JANUARY 19, 2023
billion in 2022, a report from ResearchandMarkets estimated. I know how helpless physicians and nurse practitioners can feel when confronted with patients struggling with dementia. Awareness of even the basic tools to address some of this will greatly empower our medical community.” billion in 2030 from $34.5
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: Huge.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.
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