Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

Department of Justice alleged that the Indiana-based company billed Medicare separately for services that should have been covered by the hospice benefit. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), have been looking more closely at health care organizations’ billing for services delivered to hospice patients. CMS as of Oct.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

At the same time, the ratio of potential caregivers to seriously ill seniors is expected to shrink to 4-to-1 by 2023, a “sharp decline” from 7-to-1 in 2010, AARP reported. In 2010, the U.S. Some Medicare Advantage plans also offer some caregiver support services as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

By extending its footprint, the company is helping to fill a gap left when Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, Texas, shuttered its hospice program in 2010. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Angels Care is a portfolio company of AngMar Medical Holdings, Inc. Texas markets are ripe for hospice growth.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

billion Medicare Advantage (MA) organization that covers more than 270,000 members. In 2010 and 2011, he was a special advisor to then U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Don Berwick. Among the authors of that article was Dr. Meena Seshamani, director of the Center for Medicare within CMS. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2024

The federal government and the State of Tennessee first filed these complaints against Kindred in 2021 for claims submitted between 2010 and 2020. Gentiva’s parent company, the private equity firm Clayton, Dublier and Rice, acquired a 60% stake Kindred at Home’s hospice assets in 2022 for $2.8 million, with previous owner Humana Inc.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Some of these providers have secured licenses, as well as Medicare certification and, sometimes, accreditation. They then proceed to enroll a small number of patients for whom they never bill Medicare, multiple hospice executives told Hospice News on background. By not billing, they are better able to avoid regulators’ attention.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the state’s overall population in 2010, a jump from 9.9% At a rate of 57.9%, Florida ranked fourth nationwide for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in 2018, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported. For example, Hispanic seniors 65 and older made up 13.4% Utah held the highest rate at 60.5%

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2023

Seniors older than 65 are the fastest-growing age group in the county, having seen a 22% increase between 2010 and 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported. Census Bureau. About 585 died while receiving hospice care that year.

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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. In 2010, the U.S. The value of family caregiving is estimated to be about $470 billion per year.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Palliative services that address patients social needs, manage their pain and symptoms and provide caregiver support have increasingly become critical aspects of value-based payment demonstrations coming out of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), she said. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking answers from the hospice community — including some around utilization patterns and non-hospice spending. This includes items and services covered under Medicare Parts A, B, and D. Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6 billion, he agency reported.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

between 2010 and 2019. of Medicare decedents who used hospice in 2018, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. The Asian population is the fastest growing racial or ethnic population in the United States relative to other demographics, having risen 29.3% and 20%, respectively. They represent 1.8%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

On average, the tenures of more than a third of hospice chaplains in the United States lasted only one to two years between 2010 and 2019, according to research from Zippia. Hospices currently have no means of reporting chaplain visits on Medicare claims. A shrinking labor pool.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When the Medicare Hospice Benefit became a permanent program in 1982, its parameters were designed specifically for cancer patients. Longer lengths of stay do generate higher margins , the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported in 2019. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to “modernize” the benefit.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

between 2010 and 2019. Yet, the uptake amongst white Medicare beneficiaries remains higher than among their Asian, Black, Hispanic, or Native Americans peers.”. The Asian population in the United States is the fastest growing relative to other demographics, having risen 29.3% and 20%, respectively. .

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Nurse.com

JULY 18, 2022

This ratio has remained constant even as the number of practicing NPs has exploded in recent years , from 148,000 in 2010 to 222,000 in 2016, to 355,000 by Spring of 2022. It is no surprise, then, that NPs are in particular demand in rural America and, over 80% of NPs accept Medicare and Medicaid patients.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But it’s interesting because I started seeing, even though for instance I was working on this much earlier, but I published my large meta-analysis linking this to risk for premature mortality back in my first one in 2010. Eric: 2010 was so long ago, we barely had Amazon Prime then. And then the second one in 2015. Eric: Awesome.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 30, 2023

NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. The ICAN Act is improving care and access to nursing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But when we look at people over the age of 55, 55 and older, we had about 11,000 in 2010, and now we have 18,000 people aged 55 and older. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? Michele: Yeah, absolutely.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 19, 2023

In addition, the researchers encourage the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Joint Commission to consider safe staffing requirements for inpatient maternity care, similar to CMS working to establish minimum staffing regulations for nursing homes to promote patient safety. Nurses play a central role in the 3.6

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. I do think the growth of for-profit hospice, so around 2000 to 2010, was beneficial in terms of access. I think in that way, what we see with more than half of Medicare beneficiaries dying under the care of a hospice, that expansion was potentially a good thing.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 7, 2023

the Second Circuit affirmed dismissal of a FCA suit on jurisdictional grounds, applying the pre-2010 version of the public disclosure bar. Thus, in cases involving pre-2010 conduct, relators must still have firsthand knowledge to qualify as an original source. Oncology, Inc. , The hospital simply left things where they were.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. 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. Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And then if you think underneath that, there’s Medicare certified home health, palliative, and hospice, that really kind of sits in the home.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

An excerpt from that blog here: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has consulted with Acumen in an effort to establish a comprehensive approach to Medicare Part A PPS SNF payment reform. Assess the impact of the payment alternative on SNF residents, SNF providers, and the overall Medicare system. Well, great news!

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Take, for instance, the statistics surrounding the Medicare population and multiple chronic conditions (aka MCCs). In 2010, approximately 21.4 million Medicare beneficiaries had at least two chronic conditions and accounted for the bulk of healthcare services provided under Medicare.

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Hospice Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In fact, he reversed his own negative opinion on many patients, explaining only that he “was not the same physician [in 2013 when testifying at trial] as he was in 2010 [when opinions first rendered].” Of course, false claims cases are not the only tools available to a government eager to recover and reuse Medicare funds.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I looked up the annual Medicare spending, is about one 10th that, so it’s like 10 times the annual Medicare budget. And, I would lower the Medicare age so that there’s Medicare for all. And, Taylor wrote this song when she was at… She thought she was at the top of her game in 2010.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Merger Guidelines represent a significant departure from the 2010 Horizontal and Vertical Merger Guidelines, and the proposed HSR rules represent the first time the HSR process has been substantively updated in over 40 years.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra alleging that a Medicare contractor wrongfully sought to recoup payments. The Medicare claims in question date from Nov. Crossroads was told to repay Medicare more than $9.1 A Kansas City, Missouri, location of Crossroads Hospice has filed a federal lawsuit against U.S.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 14, 2024

In this capacity, Underwood worked on private insurance reform, summary of insurance benefits, health care quality in the Medicare program, the Agency for Health care Research and Quality, and preventive services (free screenings, immunizations, and contraceptive coverage) for four and a half years from 2010-2014.

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