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

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MA enrollees were also more likely to receive hospice care and less likely to receive facility-based care after a hospital discharge, according research published in JAMA Health Forum. However, they identified gaps in which patients don’t always receive sufficient post-acute care. “We less likely to die in a hospital.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

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Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. CMS introduced SIA in 2016.

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Comfort Care Homes Build Bridges to Hospice for Underserved Patients

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These are generally nonprofit residential facilities that will give patients a place to stay while they receive hospice care. While some comfort care homes do have paid staff, many are volunteer-run, according to Karen Cassidy, founder and executive director of Hildegard House in Kentucky. There’s a huge caregiving crisis.

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How Medicare Budget Neutrality Impacts Hospice Payment

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is required by the Affordable Care Act to ensure that reimbursement rate changes are budget neutral. An earlier version of budget neutrality was phased out in 2016. The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care.

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VOICES: Ryan Krout, PharmD, VP, Clinical Management, Enclara Pharmacia

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In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Ryan Krout, PharmD, VP, Clinical Management, Enclara Pharmacia, to talk about the future of predictive analytics in hospice care, and the steps providers can take to get the most out of this evolving technology. We always say, “You deliver the care, we make it easier.”

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VA Study Finds 95% Increase in Palliative Care Utilization When Patients Have Access to Social Workers

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Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found. They included VA hospice encounters in the outcome but not enrollment in a home hospice program, nursing home hospice center or Medicare-paid hospice.