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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

About 16% of the survey respondents indicated plans to start palliative care programs this year, a decline from 56% of respondents in 2023. Participants are typically those certified by a state to require nursing level of care (which can be home-based), and need assistance with certain activities of daily life (ADLs).

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

It was a fantastic opportunity for us to understand what this would look like under Medicare. Then we did a larger study in several Medicare Advantage Plans in the VA. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” ” Back then, they were called Medicare Plus Choice. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. This article is sponsored by nVoq.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Now, for those of us in home care, you know, we know original Medicare is not a payer for us. Is this a, a safe home environment or this client to live in, you know, a thorough fall risk, but really a good look around the home and, you know, how can they do their ADLs? Are they safe? Do they need any equipment?