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CMS Final Rule Gives Hospice 3.8% Pay Raise for 2023

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will give hospices a 3.8% The post CMS Final Rule Gives Hospice 3.8% bump in their per diem payments for 2023, according to a final rule published today. The reimbursement increase is larger than the 2.7% the agency initially proposed for next year.

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Dole Act Could Give Veterans Greater Access to Hospice, Palliative Care

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The post Dole Act Could Give Veterans Greater Access to Hospice, Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News. So by enrolling in pace, veterans will have access to fully integrated palliative care within a highly integrated, highly coordinated primary care system.”

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Fraudulent Hospices Reportedly Target Homeless People, Methadone Patients to Pad Census

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They get homeless patients from methadone clinics and tell them, ‘Just come and live at the house, and we’ll give you constant morphine; we’ll give you a constant supply,’” the hospice executive told Hospice News. One executive described the practice as being carried out by someone who owns several hospices and board-and-care homes.

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CMS Report: Concurrent Hospice, Curative Care a Winning Proposition

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There are folks who are scared to choose hospice who choose something that gives them access to curative care, which for some chronic conditions and serious illnesses there is none,” Banach said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Chicago. They were wrong, because when you actually give people access to more, they choose less.”.

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Stoneridge Hospice Opens New Palliative Care Location

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What a palliative care program does is it gives you the opportunity to help them navigate the health care system. It gives you a chance to touch those patients and be a resource for them to call. During that time, many patients are lost. It’s so they don’t run to the emergency room all the time.”

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CMS to Sunset Hospice VBID in 2024

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While CMS did not give further details behind its decision to end the program. For calendar year 2024, 13 Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are participating in the hospice component, providing coverage through 78 health plans in 19 states. This is down from 2023, when 15 MAOs participated with 119 health plans in 23 states.

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VNS Health Develops AI Methodology for Palliative Care Patient Assessments

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This gives nurses about a three-paragraph summary of medical history, implications for palliative care and what the potential follow ups or interventions might be appropriate.” Thus far, the technology shows promise in giving clinicians a “big picture” assessment of patients’ palliative care needs, according to Brickner. “We