Hospice News
AUGUST 26, 2022
An earlier version of budget neutrality was phased out in 2016. The payment increases were generally seen as a boon for providers, though some voiced concern about the cut to routine home care, which represents about 97% of the services hospices provide, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).
Hospice News
JANUARY 16, 2023
Researchers analyzed records for 43,200 veterans with prior hospitalization who had received primary care at a VA site between October 2016 and September 2019. 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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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
“While we found that hospice length of stay was longer for those enrolling from the community vs hospital or nursing home settings, we overall found that hospice length of stay among MA enrollees was only slightly longer than for those in [traditional Medicare].”
Hospice News
AUGUST 9, 2023
Prison populations across the United States saw a 280% rise in incarcerated seniors in this age group from 1999 to 2016, the research found. The prison system was never designed to become a nursing home or hospice, but it has become one. They didn’t have a specific nurse for them.
Hospice News
JUNE 28, 2022
New Hampshire, which scrapped CON in 2016, was the most recent. Montana removed CONs for all settings except nursing homes as of last October. These federal rules were eventually repealed, and since then states have been left to make up their own minds about CON. Will CON laws last? CONs and the quality question.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
AUGUST 18, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). Project Support. Activities Not Assessed (ANA).
AlayaCare
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Home health visits can reduce the likelihood of hospital readmission by as much as 25 percent. Receiving home care is a safer alternative than nursing homes, hospitals or long-term care facilities – chances of infection are much lower.
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