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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. Votsmier Endowed Chair and a professor in the Valentine School of Nursing at Saint Louis University, and Stephanie P. million hospice recipients were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, 6.8%
Hospice News
MARCH 18, 2024
However, more stakeholders are applying the term to palliative care. Personalized medicine is a step away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to health care. Unfortunately, that gives you a genotype of that individual, but it doesn’t give you their phenotype,” Logan told Palliative Care News.
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Hospice News
JANUARY 29, 2024
Palliative care is an evolving field. Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. Rising demand In 2024, demand will continue to rise, driven by a number of factors.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Strong performance on the Hospice Care Index is becoming increasingly essential to securing payer and referral contracts and will be a key consideration in the federal government’s forthcoming Special Focus Program (SFP). The Hospice Care Index can be a referral driver. And they are looking at that data,” Huff said.
Hospice News
AUGUST 26, 2022
Medicare reimbursement is the lifeblood of hospice providers, and a clear understanding of policies like budget neutrality can help elucidate the payment systems that keep their businesses running. The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. In addition to concurrent care, LeadingAge urged Congress and the U.S. In addition to concurrent care, LeadingAge urged Congress and the U.S.
Hospice News
APRIL 24, 2023
As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care. Every organization structures its care approach a little differently and delivers that care in a variety of care settings.
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