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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News.

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Medicare Claims for Unrelated Services Put Hospices at Risk

Hospice News

Medicare claims for unrelated services creates serious financial and legal risks for hospice providers — even if they are not the ones who sent the bill. During recent years, payouts for non-hospice services provided to Medicare beneficiaries have tipped into the billions. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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CMS to Sunset Look-Alike Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans in 2023

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2023 will phase out dual-eligibility special needs look-alike plans within Medicare Advantage. Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs. Of those, about 3.8

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Transcript.

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Rippl to Offer Home-Based Mental Health Care for Seniors After $32 Million Seed Round

Hospice News

The company foresees opportunities to collaborate with other providers in the care continuum, including primary care physicians, home health, and hospice and palliative care organizations, according to CEO and Co-Founder Kris Engskov. “On So how do we provide that infrastructure to keep them at home?”.

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Then finally, we’re doing the same kind of thing with problem-solving in palliative care, trying to move our research up upstream outside of hospice a bit. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.