Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

“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. With Medicare accounting for the overwhelming majority of hospice payments, hospice care is at the mercy of the federal government to continue providing high quality care.

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Hospice Palliative care ADLS Medicare 167

Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This review discusses when hospice care for ALS is recommended and when a patient with ALS is eligible for hospice. When Is An ALS Patient Eligible For Hospice Care? The following is an overview of what signs indicate a patient with ALS is ready and eligible for hospice care.

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Hospice care Hospice Bathing ADLS 52

Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 6, 2024

Most importantly, it’s about creating a vivid, comprehensive narrative that confirms the patient’s need for hospice care under Medicare guidelines. As a rule, I always found that capturing decline when a patient comes into hospice is the easy part. Requires assistance with ADLs. Patient alert and responsive.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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. Sarguni: Yeah. Ann: Even though that would be cheaper.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. How does this relate to a hospice bottom line at a hospice organization? By the way, we were eating it anyway.

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