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How Medicare Budget Neutrality Impacts Hospice Payment

Hospice News

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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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.

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MA Beneficiaries More Likely than Fee-for-Service Patients to Enter Hospice from Community Setting

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Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are more likely to enroll in hospice from a community setting than patients in traditional fee-for-service programs. million patients who elected hospice in the last 90 days of life during the years 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018. Medicare Advantage currently does not cover hospice care.

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The Uncertain Future of Hospice Certificates of Need

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New Hampshire, which scrapped CON in 2016, was the most recent. In this day and age, we’ll see how long CONs last,” Freeman Smith, north region president for Traditions Health told Hospice News at the VALUE Conference in Chicago. Montana removed CONs for all settings except nursing homes as of last October.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

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Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Hunt, who is a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Researcher, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at UCSF. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special.

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Diverse Caregivers

Chicago Caregiving

The Care Plan helps people navigate healthcare systems not set up for LGBTQ+ or racially diverse caregivers. After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care. She’s continued to learn ever since.

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