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M&A Buyers Scour Hospice Financials for Compliance Risks

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the U.S. FCA cases often hinge on whether a hospice billed Medicare for services a patient was not eligible to.i For instance, if a hospice with a $15 million annual revenue has nine medical directors on staff, this should “jump off the page” for a buyer, he said.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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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.” Diane: Huge.

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