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The Strategy Behind CMS’ 2024 Updates to ACO REACH

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2024 updates to the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model: care coordination, managing health equity-related risks and social determinants of health. Three principles are guiding the U.S.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospice News

Consequently, many have launched additional business lines that enable them to reach patients sooner as well as capitalize on emerging value-based payment models. Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 million primary care visits in 2016.

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Hospice Providers Getting Mixed Messages on GIP Utilization, Length of Stay

Hospice News

The 2024 final hospice payment rule included a modest payment increase for general inpatient care (GIP) at a time when regulators are zeroing in on increased utilization and longer stays. It’s almost as if two pieces aren’t talking to each other on inpatient care,” Gurian said.

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Voices: Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Home Health and Hospice, MatrixCare

Hospice News

How is the evolving hospice landscape affecting recruitment and retention as agencies look ahead to 2024? Another key aspect is care coordination and collaboration. How can hospice providers better prepare to navigate labor shortages in 2024 and beyond? I believe 2024 will closely resemble 2023 in many ways.

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Palliative Care News Conference: Palliative Prowess

Hospice News

This article is based on a Palliative Care News discussion with Deanna Heath, Senior Vice President of customer experience at KanTime, Jared King, Vice President of business development and sales at Hospice Dynamix and Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime. The discussion took place on February 29, 2024 during PCN Conference in Tampa.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

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For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. After consecutive years of consistently meeting high Press Ganey (patient.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.