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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

Hospice News

On the patient side, Medicare beneficiaries face out-of-pocket costs when advance care planning is performed in any setting outside of an annual wellness visit. The 272 participants polled in the 2022 research included clinicians and administrators from 11 health systems nationwide, among other key stakeholders. Introduced by U.S.

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Providers Work to Solve Palliative Care’s Biggest Growing Pains

Hospice News

Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice launched its palliative care service line in 2007, mainly providing these services in hospital-based settings. Samaritan’s Palliative Medical Partners provided 17,000 patient visits during 2022 across eight hospitals in south New Jersey, Goldfine stated. That’s a different payer mix.

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More States Integrating Palliative Care Into Medicaid Programs

Hospice News

Case in point, New Jersey legislators are currently mulling a bill that would create a community-based palliative care benefit within the state’s Medicaid program. “We And it’s not only the social needs, there’s a stage of life difference, at least between Medicare patients and Medicaid patients. It’s a lot of complex needs.”

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Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

Hospice News

Case in point, the average annual per-patient total cost of care for hospice beneficiaries 65 and older with some kind of dementia was nearly 17x higher in 2022 than for those without these conditions, according to research from the Alzheimer’s Association.

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NHPCO and HAN Urge CMS to Implement More Telehealth Data Collection and Oversight

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September 14, 2022 . Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses. Center to Advance Palliative Care. Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. The National Palliative Care Research Center. American Telemedicine Association Action. HealthCare Chaplaincy Network. LeadingAge .

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Hospices’ 2024 Public Policy Priorities 

Hospice News

Recent evidence indicates that more of these providers are being enrolled in Medicare despite the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) efforts to date on curbing fraud and abuse. revived PCHETA in 2022 and again in July 2023, but the bill has yet to pass. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

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We also explore additional COIs from the 2016 Guideline’s creation group before the final release of the updated CDC 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for pain, hereafter the 2022 Draft Guideline (6,7). The HHS Draft Report on Pain Management Best Practices quietly faded into obscurity. opioid policy.

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