2023 Care at home Medicare 
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers analyzed Medicare fee-for-service claims spanning between 1999 and 2019, including data on hospice billing, patient enrollment, hospitalizations, health costs and chronic condition indicators. Hospice has saved money for Medicare by offsetting other expensive care for ADRD patients.”
NHPCO
DECEMBER 19, 2023
President and the first known President to utilize the Medicare Hospice Benefit. While in office, the Carter administration tested hospice care as a model, which later led to the Medicare Hospice Benefit we know today. This year’s HAN award recipients are as follows: The Courageous Conversations Award, 2023 Honoree 39 th U.S.
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Hospice News
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Fraudsters misspend millions of Medicare dollars annually, though the actual hospice-specific amounts are difficult to determine, regulators previously told Hospice News. In the end, Medicare fraud costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year. Each dollar lost to fraud takes away resources intended for people with Medicare.”
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
“Our joint venture partnership model with leading health care systems and our relationships with health plan insurers facilitate our ability to take and manage additional risk for this patient population in value-based arrangements.” Contracts like these will become crucial to its palliative care business going forward.
NHPCO
JULY 28, 2023
For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. billion in Medicare savings in 2019, while also providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. With hospice, you can provide that care at home.”
NHPCO
MARCH 21, 2023
For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 billion in savings for Medicare in 2019, while providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. Hospice stays of six months or more result in savings for Medicare.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 13, 2023
As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million.
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