Hospice News
MARCH 15, 2024
Documentation errors and a fragmented health system pose the greatest risks for adverse drug events among hospices. Another key to reducing adverse events is increasing education around medication management at the end of life, McPherson stated. Nearly half (45.7%) of these patients had more than one adverse drug event.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 7, 2022
When stakeholders consider ways to improve Medicare Advantage, they should take care not to romanticize fee-for-service Medicare in the process, SCAN Health Plan CEO Dr. Sachin Jain cautions. Medicare Advantage (MA) is a growing force in health care. Through Medicare Advantage, the U.S. Let’s be a better industry.
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Hospice News
JANUARY 5, 2023
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently reported the results of its audit of advance care planning (ACP) billing practices among Medicare-certified physicians and other health care providers. Between 2016 to 2019, Medicare payouts for ACP totaled more than $340 million, OIG reported.
NHPCO
MARCH 21, 2023
For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 billion in savings for Medicare in 2019, while providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. In other words, earlier enrollment in hospice reduces Medicare spending even further.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Issues of fraud in the hospice industry echo events that previously affected the home health space, and providers can learn from that prior experience. Back in the 1990s, the microscope ended up focusing on the Medicare Home Health Program. In response to emerging program integrity concerns, the U.S.
Healthcare Law Insights podcast
MARCH 13, 2024
It came as a surprise to our team when we learned that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was ending the hospice component of Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) on December 31, 2024.
Hospice News
AUGUST 17, 2023
“Once again leading by example, [the Carter family] is showing us how to embrace a stage of life that people don’t want to think about — that people don’t want to talk about,” NHPCO COO and interim CEO Ben Marcantonio said at the Times Square event. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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