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Hospice News
MARCH 27, 2024
In 2017, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded a Condition of Participation pertaining to disaster preparedness planning. For hospice and palliative care providers, many were unable to reach patients in facilities and at times could not provide care in some homes, Baker Rogers indicated.
Hospice News
MARCH 29, 2023
Are you in an outlier scenario with your data that Medicare contractors are looking at? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Young told Hospice News.
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Hospice News
APRIL 4, 2024
Current reimbursement structures within the federally established Medicare Hospice Benefit do not sufficiently support the level of care needed in rural-based communities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). “We House of Representatives’ Ways and MeansCommittee.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
APRIL 28, 2022
April 2022, however, also brings us a renewed approach and initiatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its National Quality Strategy. 2017 – CMS developed a new quality measures framework focused on increasing measure alignment across CMS programs and other public and private initiatives.
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). What was this group’s aim you ask? Project Overview.
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