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Researchers Link Social Determinants to Pain Management in End-of-Life Care

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Black or Latino patients in socially vulnerable areas were less likely to utilize hospice than white patients, and there’s a compounding effect on end-of-life pain management.” Researchers examined patient data for 48,631 Medicare hospice decedents from 2008 to 2016 across 15 states.

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Leadership Transitions at 4 Hospice Providers

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Bell previously served as the nonprofit hospice providers vice president and chief medical officer since 2016. The nonprofit organization provides hospice, palliative care and advanced care planning services across 44 counties in Arkansas. Brian Bell as its new president and CEO. He succeeds Judith Wooten, who retired in 2024.

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CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

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MCCM beneficiaries ultimately appeared to have received better-quality end-of-life care according to established quality measures, such as spending more days at home at the end of life,” CMMI authors wrote in a report attached to the paper.

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New California Law Further Tightens Hospice License Oversight

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We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.”. “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We

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Canon Healthcare Owner Receives Prison Sentence, $42 Million Fine in Fraud Case

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A federal jury last November convicted Akula on 23 counts of False Claims violations reaching nearly $47 million between 2013 and 2016, with the company billing Medicare for $62 million total. The FBI thanks its partners the U.S.

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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

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Advance directives (AD) and other goals-of-care documentation often lack information related to cultural, religious and spiritual affiliations, as well as personal health values, the 2016 research indicated. Fewer than 24% of Black participants had completed an advance directive, compared to 44% of caucasians who had.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

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Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016. Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers.

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