Definition Hospice care Medicare Social worker 
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act to the Senate designed to promote greater access to those services among Medicare beneficiaries. We’re trying to make this conversation as easy as possible to have,” Gurian told Hospice News. Warner (D-Va.) House of Representatives by Rep.
Hospice News
JUNE 29, 2023
Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care. Hospices are not reimbursed enough to support grief care teams,” Gross told Hospice News.
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NHPCO
JUNE 21, 2023
For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.
NHPCO
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Continued slowdown of hospice caps: The legislation extends the cap calculation methodology implemented by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014. That cut was averted, protecting hospice patients and providers. Press Contact: Madison Summers. NHPCO Communications. Ph: 571-412-3973 .
Hospice News
JULY 14, 2023
Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of data as it relates to palliative care utilization and the disparities, or the demographics related to that utilization, as it is compared to hospice. So, it’s definitely an area of opportunity, where there’s just much more research that’s needed related to palliative care.
GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
What do we know about the differences between the two types of organizations when we’re thinking about hospice care? One is the patient population and a targeting of for-profit hospices around patients who are going to be potentially less costly and more profitable. Alex: Can I ask a question? How do you think about that?
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Eric: So we’re going to be talking about palliative rehabilitation or really the intersection between palliative care and rehabilitation. Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely.
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