Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

A growing body of research touts the benefits of palliative care for patients, families, and even providers. However, when evaluated through randomized clinical trials, the results tend to lean toward mediocre. I think the measures we have, it’s not so much that they’re wrong, but they certainly are imprecise,” Dr. Kathleen M.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Several factors are crucial to working within Medicare Advantage, including complete and accurate clinical documentation, as well as strong performance on quality metrics. For the time being, Medicare Advantage may be providers’ best bet for palliative care reimbursement. based research and consulting firm ATI Advisory.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Students are also trained on understanding how AI technology can reduce time spent on patient documentation and help catch errors. As the need for palliation grows, outcomes and experiences vastly vary – with payment often at the crux of inconsistencies in quality and care delivery approaches.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This follows a nearly $115 million shortfall the prior year, tax documents show. The hospice, palliative care and personal care provider Gentiva has acquired the hospice, home health and palliative assets of the nonprofit health system ProMedica. Heartland Hospice is headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, with locations in 26 states.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

It’s finally getting to a point where there is with platforms like KanTime and you have the documentation that you need for the ancillary products that are out there to work and give data insights. This article is sponsored by KanTime. The discussion took place on February 29, 2024 during PCN Conference in Tampa.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If that’s the incentive: you get paid more the sicker your patients are, then you are going to document any and all underlying conditions to maximize your reimbursement,” Bentley told Palliative Care News. “It Much of the palliative care delivered to U.S. It has resulted in a lot of concerns around upcoding.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2023

While documents on the model do not specifically mention palliative care, several elements of the model align with that care model, according to the Center to Advance Palliative Care. They are required to do symptom assessments and then come up with plans to address symptoms and side effects. “The

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

For example, Sharon Richardson’s staff can now use their own devices to document patient information both offline and online. Data collection and analysis are becoming increasingly important to palliative care providers’ clinical and business processes. Recently, Sharon S. Palliative care is such a challenging business.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

Palliative care providers find themselves in a dilemma. Demand for the service they provide is growing, but that growth is hindered by a lack of industry-wide standards for palliative care. That regulatory scaffolding is needed because we can have that spectrum. The problem boils down to how palliative care shows its value, Baird said.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

For Center to Advance Palliative Care’s CEO Brynn Bowman, palliative care represents a fundamental shift in health care delivery as it continues to grow and make an impact on facilities and patients. health care workforce with the skills necessary to care for seriously ill patients and their families. Are the care models consistent?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Palliative care organizations that integrate employee feedback into their staff development policies have a fighting chance in battling ongoing burnout and turnover in the field. The palliative care workforce is facing a wide range of challenges that impact their ability to thrive in the field.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Without billing codes, providers have no way to measure telehealth services, meaning that many of these visits are not documented in any official record, the industry groups argued in the letter. The organizations called on Congress to require the US.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Compliance on certification and associated documentation is crucial. Patient eligibility is a frequent focus of hospice audits, with documentation errors or omissions often at the root of identified issues. But the potential confusion didn’t stop there.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Partners in Care supplied OIG with the requested documents, amounting to thousands of pages, according to court documents. Mitchell Cox, that according to court documents identified “numerous flaws” in the OIG’s sampling and extrapolation methodology. The audit examined medical and billing records for 100 patients from Jan.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There’s not even a place in most medical records to document that. What were your impressions of that document? It’s a beautiful document. In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2023

As essential as documentation is, they of course, have other things to do and Jason is here to help figure that out. Particularly over time in hospice and home health and starting to bleed into palliative care, they’re spending a lot of their time doing documentation and charting. They’re so sucked into the documentation.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

KanTime can capture affiliated providers, documents and palliative care-to-hospice transitions seamlessly by overlaying medical records for easy reference. I have done everything from bedside nursing to administration, and my last eight years at the agency level were spent as a quality assurance coordinator.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A frequent goal is reducing the amount of time spent on documentation. Though complete and accurate documentation is essential to regulatory compliance, patient safety and securing payment, the sheer amount of it is taxing for staff. Among the dissatisfiers is the encroachment of documentation into clinicians personal lives.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Should there be documentation that all other palliative measures have been exhausted prior to billing for a payment for a higher-cost treatment? Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit. A second RFI addressed social determinants of health.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Thanks for sharing.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

JANUARY 17, 2024

The final document will be made available to education bodies to help them design future curriculum in this area. We would like to ask you to contribute to this process so that the final document will be of value to educators, students, clinicians and ultimately for the care of patients requiring palliative wound care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Documentation errors and a fragmented health system pose the greatest risks for adverse drug events among hospices. McPherson also serves on the board of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Nearly half (45.7%) of these patients had more than one adverse drug event. About 81.5%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The outmigration of more than 700,000 working-age adults (ages 20–64) in the last 15 years is responsible for the accelerated pace of population aging; an unconventional pattern that has not been documented in any other region of the world,” the study found. Brisas also operates a separate, traditional palliative care program.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

They stem almost entirely from documentation errors or omissions such as a physician’s signature on the certification form or other indications that a patient may not be eligible for hospice or for a particular level of care, such as General Inpatient Care. A few causes of denials are widely known.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Advance directives (AD) and other goals-of-care documentation often lack information related to cultural, religious and spiritual affiliations, as well as personal health values, the 2016 research indicated. This has contributed to widespread mistrust of the health care system among some communities. Researchers from Charles R.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Claims and documentation for these services are frequently flagged for audits or medical reviews. For example, many medical review activities are focused on the reasonableness and necessity of CHC, and a hospice’s documentation and compliance with CHC requirements.” Continuous home care (CHC) represented 0.9% This is down from 1.8%

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

The survey’s findings show that while Asian Americans may think about end-of-life matters, they aren’t discussing or documenting these plans with health care professionals. Nearly half (41%) of Asian Americans surveyed indicated that they knew the type of end-of-life care they wished to receive, but only 7% had documented these goals.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Worse yet, do you find yourself frustrated when “corporate” only seems to care about timely documentation? Documentation is king!!

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. . hint: coping). Celine Dion. Transcript.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We’ve heard the importance of documentation numerous times, but it’s following up with how to identify that something is a problem so you can make corrections.” This includes instilling internal standards that help flag issues among billing and documentation processes is part of hospices’ roadmap to compliance, she added.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Providers nationwide have increasingly used such platforms for streamlining clinical teams’ workflows, for example, including time spent on documentation. “We Headquartered in Atlanta, VNHS Today, offers hospice, palliative care, home health, private duty and other services to more than 13,000 patients annually across 57 Georgia counties.

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Hospice News

APRIL 6, 2023

Kevin Sarkisyan, of San Gabriel Hospice & Palliative Care, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government for his involvement in submitting false enrollment applications to Medicare that hid the “real owners of a hospice company,” according to court documents. Karen Sarkisyan, a.k.a.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A real challenge in the industry is getting research and documentation around the more anecdotal stories of parents of children in hospice and palliative care,” Cottor told Hospice News. The hospice and palliative model works and it should be available to people when they’re seriously ill.” But then it’s also this education piece.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

Hospices have a leg up on compliance if they have instilled solid documentation practices and record keeping when it comes to how they spent these funds, according to Judi Lund Person, vice president of regulatory and compliance at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

A clinician may not not have realized they were acting contrary to patients’ wishes due to insufficient training, documentation errors or process breakdowns. . They know the patient’s wishes were documented but chose to ignore them. In other instances, a health care provider acts deliberately.

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2023

Hospices need to have solid documentation to demonstrate a patient’s need for general inpatient care (GIP) as regulatory oversight zeroes in on those services. Regulators generally treat documentation and billing errors as red flags. Keys to GIP compliance include solid documentation practices and staffing training, Burns said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

From a technology perspective, it’s trying to make things easier for staff, more cost effective than traveling and more compliant with documentation redundancies so they risk less reimbursement issues.” Among the persisting obstacles in rural communities is an insufficient supply of hospice and palliative clinicians.

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