AlayaCare

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Lifematters employs more than 1,500 caregivers across the mid-Atlantic region in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C., Home care is seeing greater participation in Medicare Advantage Plans and Transitional Care programs for healthcare systems and skilled nursing facilities, which are also important programs for Lifematters.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JULY 21, 2022

Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act. But onward to post-acute care and what we see coming in the future. . Figure 4-1.

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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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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

Quality inequities among special needs, dually-eligible beneficiaries Dually-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries may have a lower likelihood of receiving care from high-quality hospice providers, according to a recent analysis. Consumers need better information on hospice quality.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nearly 80% of states nationwide have passed at least one or more types of palliative care legislation since 2014, according to Yale University’s Palliative Care Law and Policy GPS data tracker. Consequently, fellow incarcerated caregivers provide much of the care and support that palliative care patients receive in prison settings.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

” Alex: So I’m sure there’s some element of difference between what the patient might say and what their caregiver might say about this issue. I think it was 2014, but we did a survey of driving rehabilitation specialists in the U.S. Eric: Does Medicare generally cover driving rehab specialists?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. 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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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. 1-3 This three-month minimum promotes hospice’s ability to provide the physical and emotional support that helps patients and their family caregivers. Medicare Policies. 2014; doi 10.1007/s00520-014-2397-7.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. The most visible attempt began in 2020 when CMS began allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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