Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

“In total, Atoyan, Karapetyan and others caused the agencies to submit over 8,000 claims to Medicare for the cost of home health care and hospice services. Based on those claims, Medicare paid the agencies approximately $31 million,” the U.S. Justice Department indicated in a statement. Attorney Phillip Talbert.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

million seniors who reside in Illinois are 85 or older, and 40% of Medicare beneficiaries in the state have four or more chronic conditions, according to HCCI. Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 About 12% of the 2.1 million primary care visits in 2016.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Dementia-related conditions and cancer in 2021 were the most frequently occurring principal diagnoses for Medicare decedents who elected the hospice benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Created in partnership with Homecare Homebase.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) expects emerging rebounds in skilled nursing and assisting living — and its pipeline of forthcoming acquisitions — to offset the impact of continuing labor headwinds. Pennant is also starting to see occupancy rates improve among its skilled nursing and assisted living referral partners.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Founded in 1984, CommuniCare Health Services is a family-owned company that provides post-acute services including skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, behavioral health and long-term care. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in West Virginia reached 43.6%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] believes that primary care is going to be the answer to this fragmented care problem. Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 Primary care is where it’s at.” Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

The state in 2018 ranked sixth nationally for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents, reaching a rate of 56.7%, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Commonly called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in , the demonstration took effect Jan. Utah held the highest rate that year at 60.5%.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

million seniors who reside in Illinois are 85 or older, and 40% of Medicare beneficiaries in the state have four or more chronic conditions, according to HCCI. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is replacing the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) model with ACO REACH. About 12% of the 2.1

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

We contract with [the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)] as a direct contracting entity, and our job is to coordinate a network of providers, called DCE participants, and then also preferred providers, which would be hospices, home health agencies that can help coordinate the care as the patients move into the home setting.”.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We’re future makers, and we want to be able to see the [Medicare] hospice benefit preserved and to be the program that is covering and meeting the community’s needs. We have started in skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, and we have done some home-based palliative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. Medicare is thinking about it. In post-acute care, we see people further down in their health trajectory.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

A leading cause of fraud involves hospices billing Medicare for services for which patients were not eligible, according to a 2021 report from Bass, Berry, & Sims. Some hospices have already begun seeing penalties from a rise in UPIC audit activity, including reimbursement suspensions or Medicare claim repayments.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Care is also provided in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospice centers. Care is paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans and HMOs. Most hospice care is provided in the home – where the majority of Americans have said they would want to be at this time.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Hunt, who is a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Researcher, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at UCSF. I think in that way, what we see with more than half of Medicare beneficiaries dying under the care of a hospice, that expansion was potentially a good thing. Melissa: Thank you.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Justice Department accused the pair of submitting thousands of false claims to Medicare and of arranging more than $2 million in kickbacks in exchange for referrals. In total, Atoyan, Karapetyan and others caused the agencies to submit over 8,000 claims to Medicare for the cost of home health care and hospice services. “In

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

The organization provides services at its three inpatient hospice centers, in patient homes, and in facilities like assisted living, skilled nursing and other residential community care centers. of Medicare decedents elected hospice during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. About 47.6%

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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.” Diane: Huge.

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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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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. We look for creative ways, but hospice has its own reimbursement source through Medicare. Hospital residential care assisted living, nursing facilities resident. Kimberly, in the q and a just asked, what is the difference between hospice and palliative care?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

You can see all of the ways that our society is not geared towards the lived experience of people who’ve encountered structural oppression. A lot of them need what we would call in the middle class world assisted living, right? But I have had this fight, as it were, with the NIA and with JAGS over the time.

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