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Evaluating Alternate Payment Models in Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice News

I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. Spano: There’s roughly 52 Medicare Advantage plans that have a VBID offering that covers approximately 10 million American lives today.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

That setting has had the greatest impact on my mind and heart, but my experiences in home-based primary care, hospice in the home, skilled care and long-term custodial care have enabled me to further develop my professional skillset. What is age-friendly care, and why is it important now? The post Voices: ??Dr.

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The Path to Successfully Navigating OASIS-E, Begin With the End in Mind!

Home Care Pulse

What do you want for the patients you serve? Would you be surprised to learn that the data you collect via OASIS is used to improve overall patient care by incentivizing best practices and enabling payment based on best outcomes rather than volume of services? What are CMS’s goals? Do they align with yours?

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Palliative Care Panel: A Discussion with Axxess

Hospice News

If you think about that in terms of the elderly population and the population that’s up and coming, with the disability, chronic illness, and serious illness that affects them, there’s definitely going to be a huge need for palliative care. We have 10,000 Americans becoming Medicare-eligible per day.

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The Rise of Hospital at Home

AlayaCare

Accelerated production of PPE and flex care solutions While the overall response to COVID has bee n uneven, to put it one way, there has been a strong push at many levels to bolster PPE production (an acronym everyone now understands), increase hospital ward capacity, and think generally out side the box when it comes to patient care.

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