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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. These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.

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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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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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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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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

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The pilot, which ran from September 2015 through February 2016, had 82 patients enrolled across four counties and palliative care organizations: Collabria Care in Napa, Interim Healthcare in Redding, ResolutionCare in Eureka and YoloCares in Davis.

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Hospice Case Manager Workloads Correlate With Longer Stays, Profitability

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Careful management of hospice care manager workloads correlates with longer lengths of stay. For many patients length of stay is a week or less, which is too short for them to receive the full benefit of hospice care. Length of stay is an important metric from both a clinical and business standpoint.

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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

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Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life. If a family can’t withstand these burdens, the patient may have to receive care in a facility to ensure their needs are met.

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