Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The litigation first arose in 2008 when four former employees of Care Alternatives filed a qui tam complaint alleging that the New Jersey-based company billed Medicare for hospice services when patients were not eligible to receive them. Additional allegations of hospice fraud came the following year in November 2009, when the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing launched CAPABLE in 2009 and since then has overseen the program nationally. CAPABLE began with a 2009 pilot at a Johns Hopkins site in Baltimore and since has expanded to more than 40 locations in 21 states. Medicare is thinking about it. Housing agencies are interested in it, and Medicaid.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Established in 2009, St. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) quality measures such as the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) and the Hospice Item Set (HIS). Croix Hospice cares for more than 4,400 patients daily across its 10-state service region.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Lawmakers have an essential role in ensuring the viability of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, according to Davis Baird, director for government affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). So, having those conversations about what those improvements would be is going to be an important exercise in 2024.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a law to develop its advisory council in 2009. Currently, Medicare reimburses for palliative care physician and licensed independent practitioner services through fee-for-service programs that often do not sufficiently support the full range of interdisciplinary care. In recent years, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

The 10-bed In Touch Hospice facility opened in 2009, seeing declining patient admissions during the past seven years, according to local news. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Pennsylvania reached 48.4% Hospice patients will now receive inpatient care at the Somerset Hospital and also in the home.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Actually, Manju, you probably could talk about yourself, but I cite it all the time of veterans who are equally eligible to get their care and Medicare fee for service system versus the VA and that patients who get their care in Medicare are more likely to start dialysis. 2009, yeah, 2009. One of my favorite articles.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Among the considerations behind that choice was his experience in working with payers outside of traditional Medicare. Historically, home-based care and hospice providers have operated primarily within Medicare fee-for-service models. The company has come a long way since CEO Heath Bartness founded it in 2009. Croix Hospice St.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

The faith-based hospice company received Medicare certification in 2015 and primarily serves an urban region around the Chicago area. Developing an inpatient hospice center has been part of Oasis’ “vision” since the beginning, according to Oasis CEO Sade Bello and Hakeem Bello, director of business development.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

in 2009 to 65.7% Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is putting its money behind this idea by embedding non-skilled in-home care in Medicare Advantage plans. Minimizing travel time and providing contiguous schedules with enough consistent hours to achieve a stable income has become paramount to attract workers to the sector.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. But we are still laboring under this Medicare benefit. Overall it was 3.1%

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Assessment of Excess Mortality Associated With Drug Overdose in Ohio From 2009 to 2018. National Academies Press; Washington, DC: 2009. N Engl J Med. 2019 Jun 27;380(26):2587. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1905100.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Additionally, Medicare pays 100% for home hospice with no copays or deductibles. Medicare-certified hospices also provide at least six months of bereavement support. New York: Springer 2009: 135-155. Now, there are between four and five thousand.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. And I wrote a paper a couple years ago, entitled Forced to Choose: When Medicare Policy Disrupts End of Life Care.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Non-compliance results in hefty fines of up to $1 million per violation, as enforced by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)​ ( Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services )​​. Consequently, we’ve seen widespread adoption of these patient portals that most of us now regularly use.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

My entire career has been taken care of in primary hospitalists and palliative underserved populations, either dual-eligible, Medicaid, and Medicare or community health centers, so I’ve always worked in that environment. We pay for the end-of-life doulas through our foundation.

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