2023 Geriatrics Medicare Social worker 
Hospice News
DECEMBER 12, 2022
These interesting, unusual or groundbreaking deals could signal what’s to come in 2023 and help shape the hospice market’s long-term future. The transaction, now expected to close in the first quarter of 2023, also marked one of the most unexpected and expensive deals to take place in the hospice sector. Optum to pick up LHC Group.
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.
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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.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 5, 2022
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. Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice?
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
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. But we are still laboring under this Medicare benefit. JAMA Health Forum.
GeriPal
JULY 13, 2023
Randy died February 26, 2023. They’re associated with about 90% of deaths in the Medicare population. Using some of these tools, so physicians and nurse practitioners and social workers can quickly find these goals of conversations as quickly as you found them through your own algorithms.
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