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
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. In the study, researchers present the case of an independent 87-year-old woman with moderate dementia admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. After exhausting her Medicare benefits, she depleted her assets and paid out of pocket until qualifying for Medicaid.
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Hospice News
JANUARY 2, 2024
Audits audits by Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) have proliferated during the past two years, including Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) audits, as well as those by Unified Program Integrity Contractors (UPIC), Supplemental Medical Review Contractors (SMRC) and Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC). Hospices received nearly 5.4%
Hospice News
JULY 31, 2023
Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 Representatives from NHPCO, NAHC, NORC, along with hospice providers VITAS Healthcare and Delaware Hospice, presented the data during the briefing. That’s a huge difference and a huge value to Medicare,” Munevar said. That’s a huge difference and a huge value to Medicare.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to obtain any necessary amendments or waivers to implement the provisions of the bill and to secure federal funding for the program. Too often when an older person is facing an illness, they get swept up in the health care system without being presented the option of noninvasive care.
Hospice News
MAY 12, 2023
Patients with ovarian cancer who have received palliative care had fewer hospital readmissions compared to others, according to a recent study presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer from the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) in Tampa, Florida. The results help to demonstrate palliative care’s value proposition.
NHPCO
DECEMBER 19, 2023
New this year is the addition of the first-ever “Courageous Conversations Award” to be presented, when merited, to a standout individual who has inspired and educated the public on the value of hospice. President and the first known President to utilize the Medicare Hospice Benefit.
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