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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

Participants are typically those certified by a state to require nursing level of care (which can be home-based), and need assistance with certain activities of daily life (ADLs). Most PACE participants are reimbursed through the long-term care programs within Medicare and Medicaid, according to Black.

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

Hospice News

This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. How does this relate to a hospice bottom line at a hospice organization? We did a large study with Amedisys.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.