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Hospice News
AUGUST 17, 2022
Medicare claims for unrelated services creates serious financial and legal risks for hospice providers — even if they are not the ones who sent the bill. During recent years, payouts for non-hospice services provided to Medicare beneficiaries have tipped into the billions. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2023 will phase out dual-eligibility special needs look-alike plans within Medicare Advantage. Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs. Of those, about 3.8
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
The Texas Medical Board suspended his medical license in 2019, when he pleaded guilty to the fraud charges. They enrolled patients with long-term incurable diseases such as Alzheimers and dementia as well as patients with limited mental capacity who lived at group homes, nursing homes and in housing projects.”
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
in 2019, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Dementia-related illnesses are the fastest growing primary terminal diagnosis among hospice patients. A little more than 20% of hospice decedents in 2020 suffered from dementia, up from 18.5% of terminal diagnoses in 2020, while cancer accounted for 7.2%.
Hospice News
JANUARY 11, 2023
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires operators to report incidents of patient abuse and neglect that involve their staff. GAO determined that under current rules abuse reports from hospices may be less complete or timely than those from nursing homes and hospitals. NAHC also called on the U.S.
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.
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. That number reached 92.5
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