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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. The California-based hospice provider in October 2024 received nearly $1.14

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CMS: Concurrent Hospice Care Improves Quality, Reduces Costs

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its fifth and final report on the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM), which studied the effects of allowing individuals to receive hospice care without foregoing other treatments. The agency launched the MCCM in 2016.

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The Case for a Palliative Care Medicare Carve-Out

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Positive outcomes yielded by the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) could be helping to build the case for a Medicare palliative care carve-out, Farrand indicated. Launched in 2016, the MCCM model was designed to curb costs, improve quality and family satisfaction, and keep patients in their homes.

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CMS Report: Concurrent Hospice, Curative Care a Winning Proposition

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care. The recent report focuses on 4,574 Medicare beneficiaries who enrolled in the program between January 2016 and September 2020 and who died by March of 2021.

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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

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The health care system, in both private and public settings, that is engaged with financing, managing, and providing palliative and hospice care must directly address the issue of racism, discrimination, and disparities, particularly among marginalized underserved non-Hispanic Blacks,” authors stated in the study.

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MA Enrollment to Outstrip Traditional Medicare in 2025

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Medicare Advantage currently does not reimburse for hospice care outside of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) demonstration. The hospice component of VBID is slated to end on Dec. Researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018.

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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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