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Choice Health CEO Jackson: Instant Care Deal an Extraordinary Opportunity in Non-Medical Home Care

Hospice News

Its supportive services include assistance with daily activities, housekeeping, meal preparation, feeding and transportation. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to offer non-skilled home care services as a supplemental benefit. As of 2019, the U.S.

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Key Palliative Care Trends to Watch in 2024

Hospice News

Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care. Today, many palliative programs are supported by philanthropic donations or treated as a loss leader that can feed referrals to other services like hospice care.

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Paying Your Care Staff More Won’t Keep Them Around Longer—Here are 4 Solutions that Will, According to the Experts

Home Care Pulse

We need to change the paradigm a little bit and learn from how our partners on the Medicare side of the fence handle scheduling. They want to know when I need them so they can plan the rest of their life which feeds into the notion of work-life balance. The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022.

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Population Health, Quality, and Palliative Care: The Role of Public and Private Payors

AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), followed by health plans, usually sets the general tone of quality assessment and incentives, thus influencing the allocation of resources to specific programs in the short and long term. media.capc.org/filer_public/0f/2f/0f2f8662-15cf-4680-baa8-215dd97fbde6/payer-providertoolkit-2015.pdf

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Former Mercy Health CEO: U.S. Needs to Embrace ‘Death Literacy’

Hospice News

The concept of death literacy comes from a Lancet Commission report in February 2022. It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. People think of Medicare as an insurance product. It’s just postponing it.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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That was in April of 2022. And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” As of December of 2022, there is no X waiver anymore. Jessie, we’re delighted to welcome you back as well.

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Holding Onto the Heart of Hospice While Embracing Standardized Quality Outcomes

Home Care Pulse

The 2022 theme is Meeting You Where You Ar e. The answer to that question determined whether the beer went down the feeding tube or was a savor and spit process. Sunday dinners involved feeding four generations. Will the need to report the same data on every patient mean that individualized care must go by the wayside?

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