AlayaCare

JULY 7, 2019

As purely objective observers, this particular presentation (in the Private Duty stream) is not to be missed. As an appetizer, feel free to check out our article from last winter that attracted some attention. Continually growing, Florida’s population now sits at 21.6 million people.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Michah’s Story Begins. B oth the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) are charged with preventing fraud and abuse related to federal healthcare spending. billion Medicare dollars.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore the challenges of these conversations and some key strategies to help new hospice nurses. RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: The Hospice Talk: 6 Telltale Signs of Decline and How to Start the Conversation Strategies for Success: 1. It’s not always easy to know what to say or how much to say.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 20, 2022

When you enter the real-world,” she continued, “clinical practice will continually evolve, you will be presented with protocols, and challenges, new research, and opportunities to learn more. Experts quoted in this week’s McKnight’s Long-Term Care News article address key points that this is a start. Always ASK WHY!”.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This commentary, the final in our trilogy, expands on these articles to quantify and clarify the extent of Chou’s COI. In November 2003, the Orlando Sentinel published a series of articles on OxyContin, exemplifying the media’s moral panic about opioids (12). opioid policy.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

When you don’t document, Medicare doesn’t pay. Think of it this way, if Medicare repeatedly denies payment, then you might not get that raise you deserve. Related Article: 3 Common Mistakes Hospice Nurses Make and How to Avoid Them. Document using hospice scales: Medicare uses scales to determine eligibility.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This article is sponsored by CHAP. My clinical experiences have been foundational to my growth, but my aging health policy experience with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and my time with The California Endowment were equally important.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 31, 2022

To begin, as noted by the AMA, digital medicine presents an opportunity to improve access and to offer cost-effective medical care to a large swath of patients with varied needs. Medicare still currently considers these codes to be non-covered. Background on DMPAG and impact of CPT coding. See a theme here?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Secondly, the scores from this survey are followed and recorded by Medicare. Table based on data measures from the Medicare Compare website. WHAT DOES MEDICARE CAHPS REPORT? Visit the Medicare Compare website to see how your agency stands up! Were there red flags or warning signs present? Who Completes the Survey?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: Hospice IDG Top Time Wasters & How to Avoid Them. Simply put, you must compare the present to the past. You should also be aware that if your patient’s hospice recertification is late or falls out of the prescribed Medicare guidelines, their recertification can be denied. Use Comparison Documentation.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

But I too, I think the science and the data really are there to prove that not only does it lower the amyloid and make it to the point where it’s not present, but then there was roughly, Eric, a four-month stability or delay in progression over an 18-month period. Now, of course, Medicare doesn’t pay for them.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We supplement that with additional resources and articles and things. We have an inpatient hospice unit at our university, and at times you have to go to families and say, “They’re kind of stable, so Medicare is not going to allow this or pay for this. I’m not saying they’re not, but they are not as present.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

And to keep it short work for an article. And I wrote a paper a couple years ago, entitled Forced to Choose: When Medicare Policy Disrupts End of Life Care. It’s Forced to Choose: When Medicare Policy Disrupts End of Life Care. Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients. Eric: Yeah.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. These were some of the key themes in the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022 that centered around the merger and acquisition landscape as well as the regulatory climate.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

However, unlike hospice services, which have a distinct payment model supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), palliative care has less established infrastructure for delivery. The shift does present challenges, however. This article is sponsored by Axxess. It’s making waves. It’s proving outcomes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” ” You know?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. What are other options?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make regulatory and legislative changes to instill stronger program integrity safeguards. We have recently joined forces with other voices in hospice to present a list of program integrity measures that can be considered.”

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This article is sponsored by nVoq. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Jason Banks, vice president of post-acute business development at nVoq. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This article highlights the issue and explains what those accused of violating the FCA can learn from this decision. For a healthcare example, consider a provider that submits 100 false claims to Medicare, causing Medicare to improperly pay the provider $100 for each false claim, resulting in a total of $10,000 in improper payments.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! And moreover, about 40% of those patients with POLST had last signed it or filled it out two years prior to that presentation.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 7, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Step 1: Prepare for success. By federal law, the caregiver benefits you are required to offer to full-time employees are: Social Security, Medicare, and Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). Print Article. – Step 1: Prepare for success.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Eric: I got a question because it was a ways back, but we did a podcast on keep your hands to yourself from a JAMA IMR article that showed that use of mechanical ventilation for nursing home residents with advanced dementia doubled between 2000 and 2013, that was a John Tino study. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Before that healthcare was cooking along really growing and then this balanced budget act was passed in 1997 and it drastically slashed Medicare reimbursement amounts for services across the continuum. I imagine that can present a pretty big obstacle to keeping care staff invested in their jobs. You know, CMS was looking to save 1.6

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

No, I mean, I think I had the initial feeling or thought about this being present after I learned about it and were thoughtful with senior mentors about it. Like it’s… Julianne: But I mean the one thing that Carla and I did in this article was try to provide a framework of very practical steps that providers can use.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. We’ll have a link to the article on our notes.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 22, 2023

Article Contents: – Introduction – Battling Burnout in Post-Acute Care – Brenda’s Story – Are Your Brenda’s At Risk of Leaving – How to RETAIN Your Top Care Professionals – Take the Initiative – Next Steps Article Contents: 1. Print Article Introduction 2.

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