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Bringing Palliative Telehealth to Rural Tennessee

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A Tennessee provider is working to break down barriers to palliative care for rural cancer patients in their home state. For cancer patients in rural areas, accessing palliative care services can be a burden due to the distance needed to travel to a clinic or for an in-home provider to come to them.

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Aveanna’s 4-Pillar Strategy for Growth

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We also experienced improvement in our caregiver caregiver hiring and retention trends by aligning our efforts to those payers willing to engage with us on enhanced reimbursement rates and value based agreements,” CEO Jeff Shaner said in an earnings call. Aveanna’s net service revenue reached $490.7 million in the prior year’s period. “The

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Pediatric Palliative Care Providers Seek to Improve Parental Engagement

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Pediatric palliative care providers can sometimes struggle to engage parents and families. Parental engagement can be a difficult hill for pediatric palliative providers to climb. The pediatric hospice and palliative care provider cares for communities in Las Vegas and in Reno, Nevada, as well as in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Fraudulent Hospice Providers May Be Moving Between States

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“What concerns me more is not the competition, it’s about poor patient care.” Some of these providers, in addition to bilking Medicare of millions of dollars, also engaged in referral kickback schemes, enrolled patients who were not eligible for hospice and lied to them about being terminally ill. More than 3.2

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New Jersey Passes Community-Based Palliative Care Medicaid Bill

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A New Jersey state bill recently passed that establishes community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid. A main concern is that the state’s Medicaid funding system may be strained to implement the community-based palliative coverage changes, according to New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy.

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Alive Hospice Not for Sale, but ‘Significant Investment’ Required to Sustain Operations

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Workforce shortages, rising care delivery costs, reimbursements shifts and widespread consolidation were the main reasons that a potential sale was on the table, according to Alive Hospice’s board of directors. Nearly 4,000 community members signed an ongoing petition for Alive Hospice to remain a nonprofit organization.

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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

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A lack of trust and cultural competence are two factors fueling disparities in advance care planning and palliative care among underserved African American communities. Black populations have long-faced a history of racism that has affected the ways they access and receive care, according to a recent study.

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