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Breaking Down Costs, ROIs of Hospice-Death Doula Partnerships

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The Virginia-based hospice is part of Goodwin Living, a nonprofit senior living and health care organization. Goodwin Hospice formed a collaboration with end-of-life doula provider Present for You LLC roughly three years ago. Death doula services are not reimbursed by Medicare or other insurance. Louis, Missouri.

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How ACO Flex Could Make Hospice ‘Top of Mind’ with Primary Care Providers

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Collaborations with participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Primary Care Flex demo could allow hospices to leverage their skill sets to access more patients. Hospices and palliative care providers can come to ACOs by two main avenues.

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CareConnectMD Building Hospice Network as Footprint Grows

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A direct contracting entity (DCE), CareConnectMD offers primary care, palliative care, and care coordination services. Through the program, DCEs take complete responsibility for a patient’s care while assuming 100% of the financial risk. The company’s interdisciplinary care model is “high-touch,” according to Phan.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

Hospice News

We can talk a little bit more about some of the components with ACO REACH or some of the other opportunities that are available through supplemental benefits, through the MA plans but essentially, we think that the Medicare Advantage plans realize the value of paying for palliative care and the value add of hospice.

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

Hospice News

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule calling for a 2.7%

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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.” Diane: Yeah.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

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I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.