The Caregiving Years Training Academy

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In addition, doctors can refer the caree and family caregiver to a Community Health Worker to receive Principal Illness Navigation Services, now reimbursable through Medicare. Resources Be sure to download the Kindle versions of my books , available for free through Feb. What support did you wish you would have received?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) requirement that hospices provide bereavement care for 13 months following a patient’s death. We can’t even read a whole book. The startup’s business model includes partnerships with hospices. Operators can purchase 13-month subscriptions and offer families access.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Now’s the time to make sure your entire book of business isn’t tied to one source. Most PACE participants are reimbursed through the long-term care programs within Medicare and Medicaid, according to Black. “We’re seeing a lot of providers building the foundation now for the changes that are coming.

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Chicago Caregiving

MAY 31, 2022

If you’re eligible through Medicare Advantage, you’ll get access to online classes, classes through local senior centers, and other content — such as meditation classes, lectures, book clubs, mental enrichment activities, and more. Find your eligibility for membership through the Silver Sneakers website.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 9, 2022

We booked an Air BnB at small beach side town on the north coast. Given we have 3 quite young children, I could not have imagined the chaos or potentially afforded this holiday if I was only able to book in at one of the local hotels in the bigger towns nearby. Let’s take last week for example.

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Shining Light Hospice

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 1969, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified the five stages that many terminally ill patients experience in her book, On Death and Dying. In the book, she suggested that home care was preferable to institutional care for dying patients, and argued that patients should be able to participate in decision-making.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 9, 2022

Ap·pen·dix — a section or table of additional matter at the end of a book or document. million Medicare beneficiaries had at least two chronic conditions and accounted for the bulk of healthcare services provided under Medicare. Renee Kinder. Let us begin with our current state and access to telehealth.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

So the Oasis is the data tracker for cms that every patient who has Medicare as their primary, primary insurance has to have on file. It is a book into itself. And if you work in home health, you know, that book backwards and forwards. Don’t panic at Medicare. I think that’s a good description.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And then if you think underneath that, there’s Medicare certified home health, palliative, and hospice, that really kind of sits in the home.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I looked up the annual Medicare spending, is about one 10th that, so it’s like 10 times the annual Medicare budget. And, I would lower the Medicare age so that there’s Medicare for all. You held your head like a hero, on a history book page. Alex: That’s a lot of money. Eric: Not on amyloid drugs.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

These realizations led Barbara to sit down and write, gone from my site, the little blue book that has changed the hospice industry. We love this book, especially me, I like to show off my copy. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. So thank you Barbara, for being here with us today.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 14, 2022

Barbara Karnes, author of 'Gone From My Sight', 'The Little Blue Book' and 'The 11th Hour' explains the role of an end-of-life doula in Hospice, how they can support patients and their families, and the importance of advocating for the dying process. She’s the author of gone from my site, the little blue book and the 11th hour.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The nursing workforce is 50 percent of a healthcare institution’s expenditure, and when trying to balance the books, they will look at their biggest costs. You’ll get better reimbursement from Medicare, the big blues, and everybody else in insurance. Nursing is taking up the most significant amount.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) designed the Hospice Care Index (HCI) to paint a picture of care processes that occur between a patient’s admission and discharge, but as currently designed it may not be an effective measure of quality. The HCI also uses two indicators for burdensome transitions.

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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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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

AUGUST 25, 2023

Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that announces and solicits public comments from us on proposed policy changes for Medicare payments. These proposed policy changes include training for family caregivers and navigation system support. dementia) in carrying out a treatment plan.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

You’re booked, you’re booked for the next podcast, Amanda Sternklar ( 33:46 ): <Laugh> Linda Leekley ( 33:49 ): I was gonna ask Kristin what your thoughts are about you. There’s a huge jump in the number of Medicare Advantage plans coming onto the market in 2023. Linda Leekley ( 33:42 ): Right.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

You’ll already have your generic nursing responsibilities laid out by your state’s nursing regulations and practice acts.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. But we are still laboring under this Medicare benefit. I’m excited.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

You’re booked, you’re booked for the next podcast, Amanda Sternklar ( 33:46 ): <Laugh> Linda Leekley ( 33:49 ): I was gonna ask Kristin what your thoughts are about you. There’s a huge jump in the number of Medicare Advantage plans coming onto the market in 2023. Linda Leekley ( 33:42 ): Right.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

So I started asking around in terms of even my colleagues and so forth, you read about these little, like you say, paragraphs in books that say something about what you should do with hearing loss and testing for hearing loss, and making sure hearing aids are in place. Nick: Alex, I’ll be honest with you. Let that do its thing.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Sarguni: And I think the inadequacies of the Medicare hospice benefit really come into play here because a lot of times people are not sure if they want to get more cancer treatments. And doing that informed this whole process much more than learning anything clinical in a book. That’s the problem. What are other options?

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills. And just stop me if I’m going too deep, huh? It was outta my control actually it was the balanced budget act of 1997.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then we linked that cohort with administrative data, which allowed me to pull out the ICU admissions in addition to manually abstracting all of the paper data for the managed Medicare participants. And I really want to encourage people to … Wes Ely writes beautifully about that in his book. Julien: Absolutely. All the above.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Because our division of geriatrics has such expertise in secondary data analysis and how their retirement studies, can set me off on this task to go read the code books in HRS. Have Medicare recognize social health as an important topic that is actually reimbursable in terms of services. Lightning round: magic wand. What would it be?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 4, 2022

Additionally, we received press releases related to CMS Acts to Improve the Safety and Quality of Care of the Nation’s Nursing Homes and CMS Seeks Public Feedback to Improve Medicare Advantage. Background: Nearly 140 million Americans (74 million for Medicaid, nearly 64 million for Medicare) benefit today from Medicaid and Medicare.

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