Hospice News
APRIL 10, 2024
The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should consider is retiring the six-month terminal prognosis requirement and allowing for some concurrent care, Wallace and Wladkowski indicated.
Hospice News
JANUARY 11, 2024
Grief care specialists take on challenging roles as they help families navigate the financial and emotional aspects of a loved one’s loss. Compassion fatigue is the leading factor fueling burnout among grief care team members, she said. Grief’s care largest staffing gaps The U.S. It’s really this growing specialty.
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Hospice News
JULY 31, 2023
Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been zeroing in on long lengths of stay as a potential indicator that suggests a hospice admitted someone who was not truly eligible. That’s a huge difference and a huge value to Medicare,” Munevar said. Additionally, the U.S.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 1, 2022
introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved. Establishing a National Grief Strategy will help people move forward with the help of skilled professionals creating a culture of awareness and support. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)
Hospice News
JANUARY 9, 2023
The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.
Hospice News
AUGUST 23, 2022
One is how can we continue to diversify our services and help more people in more ways — and second, looking at how we can reduce our dependence on Medicare reimbursement. Why is it important to reduce that dependence on Medicare reimbursement? It’s hospice, palliative medicine, primary care at home, and our grief support.
NHPCO
JULY 28, 2023
For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. billion in Medicare savings in 2019, while also providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. In other words, earlier enrollment in hospice reduces Medicare spending even further.
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