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Hospice Medical Director Receives 50-Month Prison Sentence for $150M Fraud

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A federal judge has sentenced Jesus Virlar-Cadena, formerly a medical director for the Texas-based hospice company Merida Group, to 50 months in prison for his role in a $152 million scheme. The Texas Medical Board suspended his medical license in 2019, when he pleaded guilty to the fraud charges.

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Leadership Transitions at 4 Hospice Providers

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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.

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New Executives Tapped At Hospice Organizations Across Country

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Muir joined the organization in 2019 as its chief of clinical innovations. He first joined that company as its executive vice president of clinical services and CMO in 2002 while holding a similar role at Hospice of the Piedmont from 2019 to 2020. 3HC Announces New CEO 3HC Home Health & Hospice Care Inc.

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

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About 10% of hospice patients were enrolled for only two days or less during 2019, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Two previous iterations of the bill passed in the House but stalled twice in the Senate, most recently in 2019, despite its nearly 300 bipartisan cosponsors.

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Hospices Struggle to Balance Costs, Patient Needs in Medication Deprescribing

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave hospices a 3.1% Clinical practice guidelines are more clear regarding the initiation of medications, but often unclear about when discontinuation is safe and appropriate, a 2019 study in the journal Clinical Medicine indicated.

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Study: Asian Americans Most Open to Receive Emotional Support Near End of Life, Less Likely to Have Advance Care Plan

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Understanding these perspectives can drive conversations about management of these symptoms, according to VITAS Medical Director Robert Nguyen, who worked on the study. between 2010 and 2019. of Medicare decedents who used hospice in 2018, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported.

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5 Numbers that Shaped Hospice in 2022

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Contributing to these declines were constraints on clinical capacity stemming from the labor shortage, as well as some instances of lower reimbursement for its home health services due to the shift of more patients towards Medicare Advantage, executives said in an earnings call. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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