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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

Hospice News

Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020.

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Spring for Vaccination

Chicago Caregiving

In spring 2023, the federal declaration of Covid-19 as a public health emergency ended. Increased age means increased risk The shot is covered by Medicare. Laurie Archbald-Pannone , Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Virginia This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

My clinical experiences have been foundational to my growth, but my aging health policy experience with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and my time with The California Endowment were equally important. Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve.

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Evaluating Alternate Payment Models in Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice News

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. Spano: There’s roughly 52 Medicare Advantage plans that have a VBID offering that covers approximately 10 million American lives today.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

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.” Malaz: I love it.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to understand what this would look like under Medicare. Eric: Do you need a caregiver? How is it financed and what comes next?

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