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LeadingAge to Congress: Reform Hospice Benefit, Fund Palliative Care

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The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. In addition to concurrent care, LeadingAge urged Congress and the U.S. In addition to concurrent care, LeadingAge urged Congress and the U.S.

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Why Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Operators Invest in Home-Based Hospice Programs

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Offering hospice can be a gamechanger for skilled nursing and assisted living operators looking to stand out from competitors and improve patient reach. Home-based care, including hospice, has become an increasingly attractive space for facility-based health care providers of all walks. Among the 1.6

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Bartlett Regional Hospital Gets Green Light to Take Over Hospice Services, Executives Step Down

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Alaska-based Bartlett Regional Hospital recently received approval from legislators to relaunch hospice and home health services nearly a year after a local provider shut down. Bartlett Regional Hospital in January began the process of taking over HHCJ’s hospice and home health patients to fill care delivery gaps in southeast Alaska.

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Transitions Care Leverages Tech, New Care Models to Improve Patient Outcomes

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Illinois-based Transitions Hospice is implementing new technology and innovative care models to maximize its opportunities for value-based reimbursement, improve patient outcomes and create efficiency to reduce the burden on staff. .

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4 Pillars Underlying the Amedisys, Option Care Health Transaction

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And throughout health care, change is certainly in the air, with value-based payment models as key drivers. For one, care coordination is a watchword within the value-based programs. Historically, home-based care and hospice providers have worked primarily within Medicare fee-for-service models.

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CAPC CEO Brynn Bowman: Palliative Services Are a Fundamental Shift in Health Care

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Palliative care services including skilled conversations with patients and families to understand their goals of care, managing pain and other symptoms, support for family caregivers, care coordination, and addressing patients’ social, psychological, and spiritual sources of suffering. While the large majority of U.S.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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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.”

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