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First Docs to Expand Nationally With Private Equity Backing

Hospice News

First Docs is a physician-led internal medicine practice that offers a range of health care services and frequently collaborates with hospice, palliative care, and home health providers, among others. CEO Dr. Sanjay Bhatia founded First Docs in 2010, introducing its proprietary 360 Community Medicine Care Model.

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Medicare Claims for Unrelated Services Put Hospices at Risk

Hospice News

CMS has taken a stance that essentially all the care needed by a terminally ill patient should be covered through the benefit. Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6 Case in point, the skilled nursing and long-term care service provider American Senior Communities recently settled an FCA case for upwards of $5.5

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Rise of the Dutch Model of Neighbourhood Care

AlayaCare

Yet this model of care is also poised to help the bottom line too. They are: A 2010 Ernst & Young study that calculated this model can save costs per patient by up to 40% as compared to regular home care agencies. They experience fewer health problems as a result of a more focused care plan.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And the goal, even with comfort feeding only, and what was a revelation to me is it was introduced back in 2010 as a response to the recognition that tube feeding was fraught with problems, you know, caused decubitus ulcers, didn’t extend life. Alex 12:41 We should say for our listeners too.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? We have on that podcast about re-imagining long-term care. And, Taylor wrote this song when she was at… She thought she was at the top of her game in 2010. Lynn: And, look where she is now.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. And Medicaid doesn’t pay enough to pay for long-term care. Ruth: People, society, those that need nursing home care, need to speak up and say, “This isn’t right.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010.