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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Hospice News
JUNE 15, 2023
After more than a decade working in hospice leadership, Alli Collins came across something she had never seen before — a financially viable, all-volunteer provider that is not Medicare-certified. I’ve spent well over a decade in the Medicare-certified side of the world. She never instituted a Medicare provider number.
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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. Another is allowing the definition of eligible providers of these services. Warner (D-Va.) Similar legislation was introduced in the U.S.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
The Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act would expand utilization of these services by removing Medicare payment barriers faced by both providers and patients. The bill proposes to “wave,” or remove, Medicare beneficiary cost-sharing for advance care planning services. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Warner (D-Va.)
Hospice News
MAY 25, 2023
This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.
Hospice News
JUNE 29, 2023
These are usually chaplains or social workers providing bereavement services, and some hospices also have clinical psychologists or therapists as part of that team. There isn’t a guideline as to what would be considered best practice or appropriately fulfilling the Medicare requirements for bereavement,” Gross said.
Hospice News
JULY 14, 2023
So, it’s definitely an area of opportunity, where there’s just much more research that’s needed related to palliative care. Health equity became a large focus for McCann-Davis early on in her career. She began as a hospice volunteer as a teenager and witnessed firsthand the disparities that exist in the serious illness space.
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