Long-term care Medicare Presentation Social worker 
Hospice News
AUGUST 5, 2022
We contract with [the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)] as a direct contracting entity, and our job is to coordinate a network of providers, called DCE participants, and then also preferred providers, which would be hospices, home health agencies that can help coordinate the care as the patients move into the home setting.”.
Hospice News
JANUARY 31, 2024
Participants are typically those certified by a state to require nursing level of care (which can be home-based), and need assistance with certain activities of daily life (ADLs). Most PACE participants are reimbursed through the long-term care programs within Medicare and Medicaid, according to Black.
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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
If you can’t do that, the only alternative that we have in our system is to pick up the phone and call somebody, to go to the emergency room or go to long-term care. I was a hospice manager, and I had the philosophy, first, that social workers are a lot cheaper than nurses. They would be so afraid.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Yeah.
GeriPal
JULY 6, 2023
I’m a geriatrically trained social worker and it was my grandmother. Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. Acute care is called acute care for a reason.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. That question on the CAHPS survey is, how did I feel about the care that was being provided to me?
Home Care Pulse
JUNE 27, 2023
I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.
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