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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
For the time being, Medicare Advantage may be providers’ best bet for palliative care reimbursement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) also allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.
Hospice News
JANUARY 23, 2025
As we look at diversity, language barriers and being more inclusive, were doing a better job of providing Medicare beneficiaries with more care. For example, we try to buy vehicles for our nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. From a cost standpoint, paying for that mileage is very expensive.
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Hospice News
AUGUST 26, 2022
Medicare reimbursement is the lifeblood of hospice providers, and a clear understanding of policies like budget neutrality can help elucidate the payment systems that keep their businesses running. Budget neutrality has stirred up controversy in recent months due to its role in proposed payment cuts for home health care in Fiscal Year 2023.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The bonus program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. The decline resulted from the reinstated 2% Medicare sequestration, a 2.8% The majority of these hires were nurses, Westfall indicated. across its markets.
Hospice News
JULY 13, 2023
Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been zeroing in on long lengths of stay as a potential red flag, one that could suggest a hospice admitted someone who was not truly eligible.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
If you were to write a book about hospice in 2023, what would you call it? We’ve heard from the [Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)] on the 20% payment cap reduction. Is Medicare Advantage going to be the path? The amount of work you have to do to collect money with Medicare has grown.
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. 1 Social Workers Leaving Hospice, Health Care in Record Numbers (July 11). CMS gave hospices a 3.8%
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