Hospice News
MARCH 4, 2025
Bill is an icon in the industry and a staunch Medicare beneficiary advocate, always putting patients first and fighting for their rights and benefits. He was instrumental in the development of the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS), which emerged in home health reimbursement in 2000.
Hospice News
JUNE 21, 2024
Established in 2006, the hospice provider also offers palliative care, a veterans program, sleep assistance services, bereavement support and a dementia care program dubbed Bright Moments. An estimated 19,008 Medicare decedents in the state utilized the hospice benefit in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. After experiencing a functional decline at the hospital, the woman, no longer able to live at home safely, was sent to an SNF for post-acute care, covered by Medicare. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).
Hospice News
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Support for family caregivers is an important step towards controlling health care costs, particularly for Medicare and Medicaid, according to Greg Link, director of the Office for Supportive and Caregiver Services at ACL. The strategy also contains 150 recommendations for state and local government, as well as the private sector.
Hospice News
APRIL 11, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which requires providers to acquire a building and design a center to house a PACE program. Constructed in 2006 as the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, the facility was renovated after its closure in 2011.
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.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S.
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