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Hospice News
MARCH 7, 2025
The future of palliative care payment is reaching an uncertain, but potentially promising time in the Medicare landscape. The Alliance has been looking at additional opportunities to provide sustainable reimbursement for palliative care, whether that is through concurrent care approaches or something like a Medicare Care Choices 2.0
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
By 2060, more than 48 million people globally will die with serious health related suffering, up 87% from 2016, the authors indicated. More than 10,000 people become Medicare-eligible every day, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Palliative care is a neglected health care priority worldwide, three nursing experts contend.
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Hospice News
JUNE 28, 2023
Despite this potential, existing programs hit barriers created by misconceptions about palliative care among referring physicians, as well as health equity concerns, among others, according to an analysts of four payment model demonstrations carried out by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation.
Hospice News
MARCH 4, 2025
Bill is an icon in the industry and a staunch Medicare beneficiary advocate, always putting patients first and fighting for their rights and benefits. He was instrumental in the development of the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS), which emerged in home health reimbursement in 2000.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Growth in the number of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries will likely overtake that for traditional Medicare in 2025, according to new estimates from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018.
Hospice News
JUNE 27, 2022
Social and economic factors like these drive 40% of health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance. For example, 2016 research found that close to 3.6 Health care providers, payers, and other stakeholders are increasingly paying more attention to both social determinants and palliative care, including Medicare and Medicaid.
Hospice News
AUGUST 26, 2022
Medicare reimbursement is the lifeblood of hospice providers, and a clear understanding of policies like budget neutrality can help elucidate the payment systems that keep their businesses running. An earlier version of budget neutrality was phased out in 2016. But a similar move within the Medicare Hospice Benefit is unlikely.
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