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The Intersections Between Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice News

Hospice is a model with a definition of what gets delivered, how often and by whom,” Silvers told Hospice News at the summit. Better understanding could foster improved care coordination between hospice and palliative care, helping providers to address unmet patient needs, he stated.

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Transparency Essential to Hospice Compliance in 2024

Hospice News

Caris Healthcare provides adult and pediatric hospice care to more than 40,000 patients and families across 28 locations in Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Additional services include palliative care, a veterans program and care coordination.

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How Palliative Care Fits in to CMMI’s Enhancing Oncology Model

Hospice News

A new cancer-focused payment model demonstration from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) could create opportunities for palliative care providers. The goals of the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), which went live on July 1, are to improve the quality and reduce the cost of cancer care with augmented care coordination.

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Grief Care Platform Betterleave Expanding Via New Hospice-Partnership Model

Hospice News

The grief care tech platform Betterleave is expanding with a new hospice-partnership model that augments its employee-benefit business. But in recent months, Betterleave has been collaborating with hospices to offer their services to families receiving bereavement care, as well as their workforce.

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HHS: Hospice, Post-Acute Providers Lag on EMR Interoperability

Hospice News

“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.”

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CareSource Partnership with Radiant Alliance, to Combine Hospice, Palliative Care, Senior Living and Payer Assets  

Hospice News

The nonprofit health plan CareSource has signed a definitive agreement to partner with Radiant Alliance, a new entity formed by Metta Healthcare and United Church Homes. The creation and subsequent partnership with Radiant Alliance will bring a hospice and palliative care company and senior living operator under the auspices of a payer.

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The Universal Foundation: What therapy teams should know

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Let’s begin with some definitions. The “Universal Foundation” further aligns quality measures and will focus on provider attention, reduce burden, identify disparities in care, prioritize the development of interoperable, digital quality measures, allow for cross-comparisons across programs, and help identify measurement gaps.