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Early Palliative Care Spending Rose Over the Last Decade

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Though the numbers are still relatively low, spending on early palliative care rose between 2010 and 2019 for patients with advanced cancers, a recent study found. in 2017 through 2019 compared to 51% in 2010-2013. A decline occurred with between-provider variation, 45.3%

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Dr. Steven Landers: Hospice SFP Could Spread Misinformation About Quality

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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.

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Hospice Researchers Seek to Untangle Possible Relationships Between Tax Status and Outcomes

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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.

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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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Hospice Oversight: 2024’s Most Impactful Regulatory Actions

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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.

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Reps. Van Duyne, Panetta Introduce Bill to Reform Hospice Special Focus Program

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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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Hospice Underutilized for Patients with Several Types of Conditions

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million Medicare decedents who died in 2018 and examined the differences in hospice utilization during the last year and a half of life. The study examined 1,929 adolescent and young adult cancer patients who died between January 2003 and December 2019 across three health care organizations in the United States.

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