Hospice News
JULY 5, 2023
A new cancer-focused payment model demonstration from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) could create opportunities for palliative care providers. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That’s another CMMI program that has an obvious palliative care tie-in.”
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Additional services include palliative care, a veterans program and care coordination. The rule requires providers seeking Medicare certification to report any changes in ownership and ensure the “highest level of screening,” possible, Piland said. On Wednesday, the U.S.
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Hospice News
JULY 8, 2022
But this is definitely still not the norm.”. Health care organizations have taken some strides towards addressing social determinants of health, though that work is not over. Our health system doesn’t incentivize the type of care coordination that we might need. Case in point, the U.S.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
APRIL 25, 2024
The recently published “Quality in Motion: Acting on the CMS National Quality Strategy April 2024” highlights further evolution of the 2022 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Quality Strategy (NQS). Let’s begin with some definitions. What exactly is the “Universal Foundation”?
Hospice News
MARCH 5, 2024
You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in will be carved back out by the end of this year. Among other goals, the program was designed to test coverage of hospice care through Medicare Advantage, as well as the delivery of palliative care and transitional care.
Hospice News
JANUARY 19, 2024
“These gaps are becoming increasingly apparent due to a multitude of factors that include the general trend of an aging population and a health care system that is increasingly asked to deliver care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions.” Gaps in public policy is a contributing factor.
Hospice News
JANUARY 2, 2023
The possibility exists that hospice care will change more in the next few years than it has during the previous four decades. The Medicare Hospice Benefit turned 40-years-old in 2022, and in that time the program has remained fundamentally unchanged. To an extent, it has also segregated hospice from the rest of the health care system.
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