2023 Geriatrics Medicare Nursing 
Hospice News
APRIL 9, 2024
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.
Hospice News
JULY 11, 2023
More than half (56%) of nearly 330 hospice professionals indicated that their organizations planned to launch palliative care programs for the first time during 2023 in this year’s Hospice News’ Industry Outlook Survey , prepared in collaboration with Homecare Homebase. It also raises the bar on collaboration with geriatric populations.”
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Hospice News
MAY 25, 2023
The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. For a patient, a panel is essential.
AJN Off the Charts
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
In total hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 Among 2023’s significant nonprofit hospice transactions are Hosparus Health’s acquisition of Baptist Health Deaconess Hospice in June and the affiliation of Capital Caring Health with Chapters Health System in May. billion for patients in their final year of life, the findings showed.
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.”
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Bruce Leff, who is also a geriatrician, and professor of medicine, and director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, and has been studying hospital-at-home since the mid-nineties. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?
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