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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. After experiencing a functional decline at the hospital, the woman, no longer able to live at home safely, was sent to an SNF for post-acute care, covered by Medicare. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).
Hospice News
JULY 20, 2022
Payers, including Medicare, like to see providers reduce the costs of care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reimbursed palliative care through a fee-for-service model that only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services, rather than the full range of interdisciplinary care.
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Hospice News
MAY 16, 2022
“This would allow for greater flexibility than the current Medicare model provides.” . Often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in , the VBID demonstration project took effect January 1, 2021. The carve-in is designed to assess payer and provider performance related to hospice within Medicare Advantage.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Medicare may cover CHC for as long as 24 hours a day. Utilization continuous home care has dropped precipitously during the past decade, with labor pressures, regulatory scrutiny and billing challenges as contributing factors. Continuous home care (CHC) represented 0.9%
Hospice News
JULY 5, 2022
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) penalizes hospitals for readmissions rates that exceed certain thresholds, but the agency does not account for the supply of post-acute providers available to patients in a providers’ service region.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Among the organization’s goals of the collaboration is to reduce overhead costs, improve the members’ bargaining position with payers and health plans and smooth the transition into value-based payment models, such as Medicare Advantage. Three hospices in 2013 established Ohio’s Hospice, for instance.
Hospice News
MARCH 30, 2023
Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013. In 2021, close to 80,150 Medicare beneficiaries in Ohio utilized the hospice benefit, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The collaborative began with three hospice members and now includes 11 affiliates.
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