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Hospice News
MARCH 24, 2023
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to extend the value-based insurance design (VBID) model through 2030: patients’ social needs, health equity and improved care coordination. This includes the hospice benefit component, often called the Medicare Advantage carve-in, CMS confirmed.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 10, 2024
NPHI is a national advocacy organization with more than 100 nonprofit advanced illness care providers, including those offering hospice and palliative care services. Muir joined the organization in 2019 as its chief of clinical innovations. Both King and McDaniel also join the organization’s leadership council.
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Hospice News
JULY 31, 2023
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a new payment model demonstration geared toward dementia-related illnesses, which are becoming more prevalent among hospice patients. Participating operators may also receive payment for respite care. By 2050, this is expected to nearly double to 12.7 million people.
Hospice News
JUNE 1, 2022
About 10% of hospice patients were enrolled for only two days or less during 2019, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Close to half of all hospice patients were enrolled for fewer than 18 days, and 25% received care for five days or less. Staffing Constraints Limit Growth.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Nationwide, about half of all hospice agencies are freestanding, while the remaining half are owned by other types of providers mainly home health agencies, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Among the 1.6 Among the 1.6
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
“The investment in Uintah Basin Home Health and Hospice will allow us to enhance the care coordination with Uintah Basin Medical Center and provide better health outcomes for the patients and clients we serve in the Uintah Basin area.”. Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide.
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