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Hospice News
AUGUST 23, 2024
The new location will allow for improved support for serious and terminally ill patients that lack caregiver support or need higher levels of care, said Dr. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. It will be the first hospice center in Erie County, Pennsylvania, the provider indicated.
Hospice News
APRIL 3, 2024
In that position, he will support the organization’s Home Visit Physicians and Palliative Medical Partners programs. Pagliaro joined the organization in 2012 as a hospice and palliative physician, ascending into roles such as associate director of palliative medicine and vice president of medical services.
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Hospice News
JUNE 28, 2023
Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.
Hospice News
MARCH 12, 2024
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. They also recommended that personnel conducting these audits have knowledge equivalent to a hospice medical director. “It
Hospice News
MARCH 25, 2024
The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012. It comes with hiring the right medical directors and clinicians to make sure patients are eligible.
High Peaks Hospice
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Dr. Merkel engaged with his partner Dr. Robert Kasulke to spear head the medical care. Dr. Kasulke became the first High Peaks Hospice Medical Director, and today he continues to serve as Medical Director for the Hospice in Jefferson County. Ann and David gathered a team. Lawrence Counties.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).
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