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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

Hospice News

One is how can we continue to diversify our services and help more people in more ways — and second, looking at how we can reduce our dependence on Medicare reimbursement. One of the things that we’re doing also is launch our new program on social isolation and loneliness with the frail elderly. So what do we do?

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EdenHill Senior Living Communities Starts In-House Hospice Business

Hospice News

Patients have already begun receiving care through EdenHospice, which is currently awaiting Medicare certification. The EdenHospice team includes a hospice physician, director of nursing, chaplain, social worker, aides and volunteers. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Texas reached 52.1%

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VITAS Expects Recruitment Gains to Spur 2023 Growth, Revenue

Hospice News

The bonus program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. jump from assisted living facilities. The decline resulted from the reinstated 2% Medicare sequestration, a 2.8% in Q4, along with a 2.7%

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CareConnectMD Building Hospice Network as Footprint Grows

Hospice News

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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VITAS Community Access Program Spurs Upward Trend, but Staffing, COVID Headwinds Still Sting

Hospice News

These factors, along with the return of Medicare sequestration, have contributed to declining revenues. They also saw a 7% decline in assisted-living facility admissions. But some indicators in Q3 point to an upturn in some areas as 2023 approaches. Admission rates in Q3 were mixed depending on the referal source.

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Lifematters Selects AlayaCare as a Home Care Software Partner

AlayaCare

Home care is seeing greater participation in Medicare Advantage Plans and Transitional Care programs for healthcare systems and skilled nursing facilities, which are also important programs for Lifematters. metropolitan area.

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Common Hospice Myths Debunked

Traditions Health

Most patients do not view this as giving up, but as coming to peace with their prognosis and deciding to live the best possible life for the time that remains. Patients with Medicare usually pay very little or nothing for hospice services. A patient may enroll in hospice care only to improve and be discharged from care.

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