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How To Paint the Picture:10 Better Words to Chart

Hospice Nurse Hero

Furthermore, documenting decline is not only for ensuring quality care but also for meeting Medicare documentation requirements for hospice eligibility and recertification. Most importantly, it’s about creating a vivid, comprehensive narrative that confirms the patient’s need for hospice care under Medicare guidelines.

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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.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. They might need a couple hours a day of personal care.