Hospice News
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could produce misinformation that could interfere with access to care. This was in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. The soon-to-be-implemented hospice Special Focus Program (SFP) from the U.S.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made public its first cohort for the hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). Congress included the language in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). million annually.
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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The first was two July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Investigations have shown that potentially hundreds of newly licensed hospices have bilked Medicare of millions of dollars during the past several years, all while providing egregiously poor care or none at all.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not responded to congressional concerns about the hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). The SFP program was developed in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Private equity transactions represented half of all home health and hospice deals in 2018 and 2019, resulting in a 300% increase in patients enrolled under PE-backed providers, according to research published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Care Compare site.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Hospices flagged by the SFP also will be surveyed every six months rather than the current three-year cycle and could face monetary penalties or expulsion from the Medicare program. This was in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S.
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