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What Hospices Can Learn from Home Health Agencies on New Program Integrity Rules

Hospice News

Hospices seeking to gauge the potential impact of new regulatory actions in the space can look to their counterparts in the home health field. CMS is no doubt hoping for similar results for the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Their recommendations included a temporary moratorium on new hospices enrolling in Medicare.

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Attorney Ari Markenson: 36-Month Rule Will Have Cooling Effect on Hospice Deals

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new policies is a rule prohibiting changes of ownership within 36 months of Medicare enrollment, designed to curb quick license sales in an effort to avoid regulatory attention. I’ve got my Medicare provider number. Among the U.S. What CMS found out, and [the U.S.

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Pennant Group Retools for Efficiency in Troubled Labor Market

Hospice News

Providers have increasingly sought methods for streamlining clinical teams’ administrative tasks, for instance, including time spent on documentation. “We Pennant also hopes that investing in efficiency will lighten the headwinds brought on by the unfavorable trends in home health reimbursement. For 2023, the U.S. aggregate cut.

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Beyond Dollars & Cents: Maximizing Sellers’ Returns in Hospice M&A?

Hospice News

“If hospices are looking for the exit because they’re struggling and they’re ready to close their doors, do not negate the value of being Medicare-certified,” Sharp told Hospice News at the National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas. “It

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. That gave rise to the value-over-volume idea creating a shift to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).

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Beyond Dollars & Cents: Maximizing Sellers’ Returns in Hospice M&A

Hospice News

“If hospices are looking for the exit because they’re struggling and they’re ready to close their doors, do not negate the value of being Medicare-certified,” Sharp told Hospice News at the National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas. “It

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