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Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Less Likely to Receive Aggressive End-of-Life Care

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“Financial incentives to reduce costs in MA appear to promote less use of potentially burdensome treatments but also leave some patients without home-based or facility care after hospitalization.” For the study, researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018.

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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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CMS Report: Concurrent Hospice, Curative Care a Winning Proposition

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But for the past four years, a lesser-known payment model demo, the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM), has been hitting every target — reducing costs, improving quality and family satisfaction and keeping patients in their homes. Initially slated to complete in 2020, CMS extended the program until December 2021. .

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Comfort Care Homes Build Bridges to Hospice for Underserved Patients

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Cassidy is a nurse practitioner, board-certified in palliative care, who also worked for 30 years as a professor of nursing. During her clinical practice in a hospital, she recognized that the end-of-life care needs of some patient populations were not being met. “So It’s a gap in the continuum of care.

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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.