Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A growing number of educational and academic institutions also have created partnerships with providers to create new pathways for palliative care clinical training, with many focusing on nurses, social work and pharmacy students – areas that are hurting for qualified professionals.

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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. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) quality measures such as the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) and the Hospice Item Set (HIS). Additionally, 90% of families reported a willingness to recommend the hospice provider to others. Even more importantly, it’s helping with staff satisfaction.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Insurance companies and Medicare are also starting to recognize the cost savings and improved patient outcomes the clinics can provide. “I Traditional Medicare will cover physician or advanced practitioner services, and Medicare Advantage plans may cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.),

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

Gaines is a doctoral candidate in palliative care at the University of Maryland, and Cagle is an associate professor at its School of Social Work. “We Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed HIS as a tool to gauge a patient’s overall care experience.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), the California Black Health Network (CBHN) and the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF). The study was funded in part by the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). For the latter, many deficiencies occur because social work and bereavement care assessments are not conducted within the required time frame. While these data are based on results from ACHC-accredited organizations, it dovetails with industry-wide results.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recently finalized hospice payment rule. Some commenters expressed interest in the role HOPE will play in advancing health equity, including voicing support for the collection of social risk data, including social determinants of health (SDOH) data,” the rule language indicated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. Chicago-based Oak Street Health consists of a network of value-based primary care facilities that serve upwards of 145,000 Medicare beneficiaries across 21 states.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 3.1% If enacted, PCHETA would authorize $100 million over the course of five years to support programs designed to bolster clinical education in hospice and palliative care, along with related interdisciplinary professions such as chaplaincy, pharmacy and social work.

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High Peaks Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

As a member of the Hospice interdisciplinary team, the primary focus of the Social Worker is to respond to the emotional and psychological needs of the patients, their families, and hospice staff. The Social Worker provides concrete social work services and actively participates in developing patient/family care plans.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As a member of the Hospice interdisciplinary team, the primary focus of the Social Worker is to respond to the emotional and psychological needs of the patients, their families, and hospice staff. The Social Worker provides concrete social work services and actively participates in developing patient/family care plans.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

That year Medicare determined that dying was no longer a diagnosis that warranted a hospital admission. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care. In 1988 they received their license from the NY Dept of Health and became eligible for reimbursement through Medicare. In 1986 Ann and her husband, the late Dr. C.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Though CON regulations are not necessarily an indicator of quality, size or ownership status, they can give lawmakers a window into the relationship between quality and oversight, as well as other variables that impact end-of-life experiences, according to John Cagle, associate professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work. “We

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Most hospice care programs provide services such as nursing care, social work services, chaplain services, and bereavement counseling. Hospice care is typically covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance plans. Hospice care is covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We have an inpatient hospice unit at our university, and at times you have to go to families and say, “They’re kind of stable, so Medicare is not going to allow this or pay for this. And secondly, nurses are best at doing nursing, and social workers are best at doing social work.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Hospice is a vastly underused Medicare benefit in the United States. The Role of Social Work in Hospice. Volunteers to provide companionship to the patient and relief to the family caregiver. Grief support. 24/7 triage support for after-hours urgent issues. Are there things I want to accomplish before I die?

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

This can result in patients coming to hospice later in the course of their illnesses, according to Lee, who also serves on the board of directors at the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule calling for a 2.7%

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Social work services : Social services are available for our patients and their families to help them work through end-of-life stress. Social workers also help patients make sure they have end-of-life items completed, such as funeral planning or will writing. . How much will hospice cost?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy. In fact, I worked for senior care options payer-provider in Massachusetts, where I am coupled end-of-life care from hospice back in 2009. We have volunteers, we have CNAs.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

Additionally, if your patient requires more frequent visits or now requests the services of spiritual care or social work, this can support recertification. You should also be aware that if your patient’s hospice recertification is late or falls out of the prescribed Medicare guidelines, their recertification can be denied.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The nonprofit hospice and home health provider became Medicare certified in 2006, and is operated by Catholic Community Service. Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance payments for patient services are not keeping up with these unprecedented increases in expenses,” Catholic Community Service indicated in the press release.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

From a business perspective, patient populations who experienced longer lengths of stay boosted hospice margins by as much as 20% during 2016, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

However, unlike hospice services, which have a distinct payment model supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), palliative care has less established infrastructure for delivery. We knew that what they had at their disposal from a hospice perspective wasn’t enough for palliative care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Though operators often feel siloed within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, they are not shielded from the shifting currents in the health care system at large. Addressing the psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients and families — including bereavement care, social work and chaplain services — have long been integral to the hospice model.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. We spoke earlier about Medicare Advantage.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

She recently spoke with Hospice News about the industry’s changing environment and the potential to revise aspects of the Medicare benefit, as well as top priorities for her upcomiing term at AAHPM. Do you think there are aspects of the Medicare benefit as it’s currently designed that need to be changed or updated?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A lot of times we, unfortunately, had to eat a lot of the reimbursement because we had to switch them to a routine level of care, even if they were in our inpatient unit, while our social work team worked on placement issues or they worked on caregiver issues. They worked on things like that.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 17, 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , for instance, announced a new strategy to add flexibility to the U.S. And it correctly points out that many different types of care are needed to meet a person’s needs from nursing, wound care and home infusion to physio and occupational therapy, to social work and personal care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Or any social determinant of health just means that means the clinician refers to social work. I think some of the work that we’ve been doing, and that Julianne and I have written about, is that this is a multi-pronged approach to talk about loneliness and isolation. Lightning round: magic wand. What would it be?

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