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How Fraudulent Hospices Evade Regulators

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced a series of new regulations to combat fraud during the past two years. As of August 2023, CMS personnel had appeared at 7,000 locations, with plans to visit every hospice site in the country, according to a blog post by two CMS officials.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. We’re very fortunate to have Medicare chronic care management, which is a wonderful resource that really is very goal driven, incorporating things like patient priorities, care and what matters most.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

Randy died February 26, 2023. And so Ruth highlighted one of the features of this pragmatic trial that was different than the outpatient trial was that we didn’t need to consent patients and families for participation in this study. And so that’s how we were able to proceed with the study under this waiver of consent.

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