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How Palliative Care Providers Can Enhance Care Coordination

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This type of coordination can improve outcomes , decrease costs, and offer patients a better quality of life. Navigating system challenging for patients Critiques of current care coordination often focus on the disjointed experiences patients have when dealing with multiple providers, specialists and other services.

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Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit

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In some cases, a frightened patient or a patient in crisis may call an ambulance or visit and emergency room, prompting revocation of the Medicare Hospice Benefit in order to receive hospital care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. The impact on providers can also be profound.

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Enhancing Care Coordination Can Give Hospices An Edge in Value-Based Models

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As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Care Coordination Key to Hospices’ Success in Value-Based Care

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As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Aetna’s President of Medicare: MA Plans Go All-In on Aging in Place with New 2024 Benefits, Palliative Care, Hospice VBID

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“Aetna remains focused on providing benefits and services to help our members age in the place that is best for them – whether that is with caregivers or without, in a family home or in a senior living community,” Terri Swanson, president of Medicare for Aetna, told Hospice News in an email. “We

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Compassus, VNS Health Team Up to Manage End-of-Life Care for Medicare Advantage Payers

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Compassus and VNS Health have formed a value-based collaboration aimed at improving access, awareness and quality of hospice and palliative care services. The two home-based care organizations are joining forces in a Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model partnership. Recently, the U.S.

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New CMS Medicaid, CHIP Guidance Could Help Clarify Pediatric Palliative Care Payment

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new guidelines intended to better support state-based pediatric reimbursement systems and help improve equitable health access among youth populations. We’ll keep working until every child can get the care they need, when they need it.”