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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

Hospice News

Rural-based hospice providers face a range of challenges to improve access among their underserved patient populations. We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and MeansCommittee.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. That’s the problem. What are other options? Eric: Yeah.

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

Why not make it an all-inclusive benefit where we are reimbursed for not just the primary hospice diagnosis care, but exacerbating diagnoses as well? Things like complex wound care. PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those.

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