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C-TAC: CMS’ ‘Palliative’ Definition in 2025 Proposed Hospice Rule ‘Misaligned, Problematic’

Hospice News

This definition could complicate hospices’ ability to accurately and appropriate bill for palliative care, C-TAC stated. The post C-TAC: CMS’ ‘Palliative’ Definition in 2025 Proposed Hospice Rule ‘Misaligned, Problematic’ appeared first on Hospice News. This would require tight monitoring to flag and reduce that.

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Payers to CMMI: We Need a Standardized Definition for Palliative Care

Hospice News

A group of health plans, policymakers, and insurance companies recently told the Center for Medicare & Medicare Innovation (CMMI) that they needed a standardized definition for palliative care in order to improve access. The definition of palliative care that is out there is something that’s an intangible.

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The Hurdles Providers May Face When Setting Up a Palliative Care Program

Hospice News

It definitely affects the staff that you’re going to need and the enrollment. There’s definitely all sorts of missteps in terms of everyday billing, but the financial piece is really where the missteps are. Are there any kind of common missteps that providers sometimes make as they’re moving through this process?

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New EAPC Publication: Consensus definition of advance care planning in dementia: A 33-country Delphi study

EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

It is open access and available to read at: [link] The post New EAPC Publication: Consensus definition of advance care planning in dementia: A 33-country Delphi study appeared first on EAPC. The EAPC Task Force on Advance Care Planning and Dementia have recently had their paper published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

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Taking Action on Customer Satisfaction: The Definitive Guide to Leveraging Your Net Promoter Score (NPS)

Home Care Pulse

This definitive guide explains it all. To help you, we’ve created this definitive guide that will answer the following questions: What is a Net Promoter Score (NPS) and how do you calculate it? What are Net Promoter Scores? Who are Promoters, Passives, and Detractors? Why should you track your NPS?

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Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss – Is it time to challenge definitions of hearing recovery?

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Different hearing recovery criteria are used in practice resulted in confusion over definitions and how hearing recovery is identified5. The post Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss – Is it time to challenge definitions of hearing recovery? However, management of steroid drug, dose, and regimes vary (2,3,4). & Hutton, B.

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How the Right Investments Can Help Hospices Reduce Turnover

Hospice News

Turnover remains a big risk Health care workers have increasingly dropped out of the workforce in the past few years, according to a report from Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ: DH). Of the 2% of hospice clinicians that left the field, roughly 26 of them were nurse practitioners, he stated.