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Dr. Andrew Mayo: Hospice Leaders Face ‘Delicate Balance’ in Today’s Regulatory, Workforce Climate

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Croix Hospice in 2014 as an associate medical director. Hospices need to have internal processes to ensure compliant care delivery practices, including having robust quality assurance reviews and ongoing documentation review processes, Mayo indicated. Croix Hospice. Mayo joined St.

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Hospices Welcome Expanded Chaplain Services Codes, Seek Clarity on Applicability

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Hospices are seeking greater clarity on updated Medicare rules that allow hospices to document a broader range of chaplain services on claims. The three HCPCS codes were initially rolled out for the VA in 2019 after previous spiritual care billing codes were discontinued in 2014.

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Bilingual Patient Navigation Can Improve Palliative Care Outcomes for Hispanic Patients

Hospice News

To determine effectiveness of lay patient navigators, researchers utilized a palliative care intervention method piloted in 2014. More than half (59.6%) of seriously ill Hispanic patients in the intervention group completed some form of advanced directive documentation, compared to 26.9% among others. “In

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Supreme Court May Weigh In on Hospice FCA Cases

Hospice News

This is the largest total the Justice Department has seen since 2014. OIG has planned the audit for calendar year 2023 and will contact individual hospices to request Medicare claims and associated documentation. The audit will focus on patients who did not have a hospitalization or emergency department visit prior to electing hospice.

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AlayaCare Announces the Release of COVID-19 Vaccine Tracking Feature for Home Care

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Track vaccination status updates and submitted documentation in real-time. AlayaCare was founded in 2014 and is the parent company of Procura, Arrow, CIMS, and AcuteNet. Quickly pull reports for proof of vaccination. AlayaCare’s Vaccine Tracker Automation the first feature of AlayaCare’s expanding Compliance Tracker Automation.

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The power of nurses to impact policy: An imperative

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Having completed my undergraduate dissertation on pain assessment and management, I was asked to review the documentation that we used in the cancer unit and to make recommendations for improvement. The review went well, the documentation was utilised throughout the hospital and the training programme was repeated on several occasions.

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AlayaCare Announces the Release of COVID-19 Vaccine Tracking Feature for Home Care

AlayaCare

AlayaCare was founded in 2014 and is the parent company of Procura, Arrow, CIMS, and AcuteNet. Combining traditional in-home and virtual care solutions, AlayaCare enables care providers across the world to propel towards innovation and healthcare of the future.

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