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Hospice Groups, AOs Speak Out on Proposed Accreditor Oversight Rule

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule designed to strengthen oversight of those institutions. The first OIG report indicated that about 80% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had deficiencies in compliance. Some accreditation organizations (AOs) have balked at the U.S.

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2023’s Most Impactful Hospice Regulatory Moves

Hospice News

The first report shook the industry with findings that around 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a deficiency that posed a serious safety risk. Many established services for the purpose of selling the license at a profit or defrauding Medicare. In response, the U.S.

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OIG’s Hospice GIP Audit Fueled by Inappropriate Billing; Nearly One-Third of Claims Have Errors

Hospice News

Roughly one-third of Medicare claims for general inpatient hospice services (GIP) are billed in error, the OIG indicated. Longer general inpatient hospice stays and high-cost concerns are reasons for the audit, dubbed the “Audit of Selected, High-Risk Medicare Hospice General Inpatient Services,” according to OIG.

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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

Hospice News

In February that year we got our corporation licenses for a business and in November we became Medicare-certified. What led you to hospice, and how has your law enforcement background informed your leadership approach? I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012.

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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. percent of all claims in the 2022 dataset, compared to 13 percent in the 2012 dataset. Family and adult-gerontology primary care have consistently represented the majority of NP claims across 2012, 2017, and 2022 claim report datasets.

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The Rise of Hospital at Home

AlayaCare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , for instance, announced a new strategy to add flexibility to the U.S. This was the case well before COVID-19, as hospital-at-home programs have proven successful at improving patient outcomes while reducing health care costs (as evidenced in this 2012 Johns Hopkins study ).

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PEPPER Report: Target areas for rehab

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Review the instructions and obtain the information required to authenticate access. SNFs that are swing-bed units of short-term acute care hospitals will use validation codes provided to Health Care Quality Information Systems (HCQIS) Access Roles and Profile (HARP) Security Administrators to access their PEPPER from the PEPPER Portal.