Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Medicare has released the calendar year 2023 final rule related to Medicare Part B, which is impacted by the physician fee schedule and determines rates and coding updates for your rehab providers. CY 2023 PFS rate setting and conversion factor. Click here for a fact sheet on the CY 2023 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule.

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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. In other words, earlier enrollment in hospice reduces Medicare spending even further.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

31, 2023, Contessa was a stakeholder in at least 10 joint ventures that were actively admitting patients, according to the SEC filing. In addition to these types of partnerships, Contessa also contracts directly with some payers, primarily Medicare Advantage plans. “We

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MAY 12, 2023

Patients with ovarian cancer who have received palliative care had fewer hospital readmissions compared to others, according to a recent study presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer from the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) in Tampa, Florida.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The nation’s four largest hospice industry organizations — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) — in late 2023 conducted a 133-respondent provider survey focused on regulation.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a financial incentive to foster better performance on the measure, the service-intensity add-on. visits in the last seven days of life between May and November 2023. CMS introduced SIA in 2016. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The four largest hospice industry organizations have been working to present a united front to address widespread program integrity issues. At the same time, we are also working hard to address LeadingAge members’ concerns, which we presented to Congress in late January 2023.” This prompted the U.S. We all want to be involved.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

The home health and hospice provider last summer placed a focus on expanding its Medicare Advantage (MA) business, forming a payer innovation team focused on strengthening Enhabit’s value proposition to health plans. We’ve faced challenges as a result of our previous lack of work with Medicare Advantage plans.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization recently concluded their third annual conference in September 2023 and an inaugural neuropalliative care research symposium in April. “We We were able to fund 13 junior investigators to come to Denver to present research into neuropalliative care.” To increase the number of specialists in the field, Daly said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has offered further guidance on what rules will change when the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) ends on May 11. While the waiver specifically is going away, hospices can continue this practice through at least 2024 through provisions in the 2023 omnibus spending bill.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Commonly known as the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model officially launched on January 1, 2021, with 53 Medicare Advantage Plans offering the benefit in 206 counties within 13 states and Puerto Rico for 4 years ending in 2025. The difference is Medicare Advantage vs Humana VBID.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Its more than 9,743 staff provide hospice care to an average 17,830 patients per day as the Q1 2023. Census Bureau. More patients elect hospice in California than in any other state. Close to 156,000 people enrolled in the benefit during 2021, according to the U.S. year-over-year.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2022, the hospice community laid the groundwork for a transformational 2023. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. Pay Raise for 2023 (July 27). During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S. 3–6 Big Provider, Payer Hospice Deals.

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). We’ve seen strong historical interest here in our own transactions and anticipate that continuing in 2023 as buyers continue to develop their platforms and acquire new ones.”. Texas markets like Houston are primed for hospice growth.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The company reduced its guidance for calendar year 2022 in the wake of falling hospice lengths of stay, rising wages, the return of Medicare sequestration, and a slower rate of census growth than executives had anticipated. But executives indicated that they would be back on the hunt during the second half of 2022 and into 2023. . “We’ve

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JUNE 13, 2024

Hospice Action Week brings together leaders, advocates, and supporters from across the country to unite as one voice to drive positive, legislative change for the betterment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. “The cornerstone of effective advocacy is storytelling.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make regulatory and legislative changes to instill stronger program integrity safeguards. We have recently joined forces with other voices in hospice to present a list of program integrity measures that can be considered.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eden Health will take over Community’s inpatient services effective May 1, 2023. In 2021 the company added hospice and palliative care services in its eastern Idaho market when it gained Medicare certification and accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC).

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NHPCO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a community, we are profoundly disappointed with this decision. Over the past two years, the national hospice associations have presented CMS — in letters, in-person meetings and via other channels — with a wide array of research and well-supported advocacy outlining our concerns.

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JUNE 27, 2024

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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NHPCO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For Immediate Release October 6, 2023 Photo Link (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) hosted its annual leadership conference (ALC2023) in Little Rock, Arkansas, September 30 – October 4, 2023. All funds will support the Hospice Workforce Emergency Support Fund.

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JULY 11, 2022

million seniors who reside in Illinois are 85 or older, and 40% of Medicare beneficiaries in the state have four or more chronic conditions, according to HCCI. Starting in 2023, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is replacing the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) model with ACO REACH.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

The OIG announced a new focused audit that will be conducted in FY 2023. B oth the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) are charged with preventing fraud and abuse related to federal healthcare spending. billion Medicare dollars.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. among Medicare decedents from 51.6% NYSE: CHEM) VITAS Healthcare. “So

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

For Immediate Release October 5, 2023 Photo Link (Alexandria, Va) – This week the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) honored standout members of the hospice and palliative care community during the 2023 NHPCO Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 7, 2023

The Court explained that if the Government offers a reasonable argument for why the burdens of continued litigation outweigh the benefits, the court should grant the motion, even if the relator presents a credible assessment to the contrary. A handful of FCA circuit court decisions issued in 2023 are noteworthy as well. Piacentile v.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

If enacted and fully funded, PCHETA could work to address a growing need for more trained hospice and palliative care professionals, as well as help Medicare beneficiaries and their families understand the value of hospice and palliative care, Compassus CEO David Grams told Hospice News in an email. Staffing Constraints Limit Growth.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The consensus paper, published in Nursing Outlook , underscores research from 2023 reports by Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and the Congressional Research Service, that found adults with MCC are the largest, fastest growing U.S. adults have MCC, including 80% of Medicare beneficiaries. patient population. One in three U.S.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 19, 2023

HCP WEBINAR What Skilled Nursing Facilities Need to Know About Proposed CoreQ Regulations Thursday, May 18th , 2023 Thursday, May 18th , 2023 Thursday, May 18th , 2023 2:00pm EST | 30 min 2:00pm EST | 30 min 2:00pm EST | 30 min Is your organization prepared to meet proposed CoreQ regulations?

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JANUARY 12, 2024

On the other hand, NHPCO is disappointed by MedPAC’s recommendation to Congress that hospice reimbursement rates for patient care should not be updated in 2025, although by law hospice payment rates are pegged to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) inpatient hospital market basket rate.

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APRIL 17, 2023

For Immediate Release April 17, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule that would update key components of hospice reimbursement and regulations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Throughout 2023, the national hospice trade groups’ advocacy emphasized the need for reforms to ensure program integrity and presented 34 recommendations to CMS. To date, half of these recommendations have been implemented.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. I think from our perspective, that’s where we believe that Medicare Advantage plans are starting to see that value add. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. For a patient, a panel is essential.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Ron Elfenbein, a physician, billed Medicare and private payors a Level 4 E/M for patients receiving COVID-19 tests. But on December 21, 2023, the federal judge who presided over that trial granted Dr. Why Was This Physician Acquitted Following Conviction at Trial? 21, 2023), at 81. [2] 1] United States v.

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MARCH 13, 2024

The proposal follows a number of significant cyberattacks on healthcare organizations in recent years; Senator King noted that approximately 133 million people, or nearly one in three Americans, had their personal information compromised in 2023 alone. Cybercriminals are not just targeting hospital systems and other healthcare providers.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Thomson, DO MBA HMDC FACOI FAAHPM As one of AAHPM’s delegates, I had the privilege of representing the field of Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) 2023 Annual Meeting held in Chicago in mid-June. A few of the arguments presented against the resolution were that: 1.)

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JANUARY 31, 2024

About 16% of the survey respondents indicated plans to start palliative care programs this year, a decline from 56% of respondents in 2023. Most PACE participants are reimbursed through the long-term care programs within Medicare and Medicaid, according to Black.

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