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Hospice Oversight: 2024’s Most Impactful Regulatory Actions

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An OIG study of hospice billing claims submitted during 2012 found that 31% of the GIP claims that providers submitted to CMS were inappropriately billed — to the tune of an estimated $268 million that year alone. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General(OIG) launched a national audit of GIP utilization.

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St. Croix Opens Wisconsin De De Novo

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The Badger States population of seniors 60 and older was outpacing the growth of other age groups in 2012 and is projected to increase with an uptick of nearly 36% by 2030. Adults 65 and older accounted for 17.5% of Wisconsins overall population during 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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VITAS Earns AHA Heart Failure Certification Across 56 Markets

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In 2012, heart failure cost the nation an estimated $30.7 Close to 6.7 million adults aged 20 or older suffer from congestive heart failure in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The disease in 2022 was mentioned on more than 457,000 U.S. death certifications.

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Hospice as ‘Personalized Medicine’

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Between 2012 and 2019, only 6.8% Certainly we already use body weight and drug interactions and organ function and what the co-pay is all sorts of features that are linked with the person that we use as ways of guiding our choices for therapy. million cancer patients had germline DNA testing done.

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Renovus Capital Partners Acquires Hospice Provider Superior Health Holdings

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Census Bureau estimates that nearly 25% of Louisiana’ population will be older than 60 by the year 2030, up more than 25% from 2012. Administration for Community Living. More than 27,550 Medicare decedents elected the hospice benefit in 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. This is a rate of 48.2%.

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Deaths at Home Rose Globally During COVID Pandemic

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Researchers examined data on the place of death among adults in 47 countries that took place between January 2012 and December 2021, according to a new study in the Lancet. in 2012–2013. The study focused on cancer and dementia patients. Worldwide, the percentage of home deaths rose to 32.2% during 2020 and 2021, up from 30.1%

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Legacy Acquires HomeCare Hospice

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By 2023, the bureau estimates that more than a quarter of the state’s residents will be older than 60, an increase of close to 40% since 2012. .” Mississippi’s senior population is the fastest growing age group in the state, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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