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Managing the Hospice Payment Cap by Balancing Length of Stay

Hospice News

Careful management of the hospice aggregate cap is key to providers’ sustainability as regulatory scrutiny continues to heat up. The cap is designed to prevent overuse of hospice, put controls on Medicare spending and foster greater access to care among patients. For Fiscal Year 2024, the U.S.

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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

Moreover, families frequently give feedback that they wished their loved ones had entered hospice earlier in order to reap the full benefits, often via Consumer Assessment of Health Care Provider and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders. So a lot of results coming in when you think about, do these default orders for palliative care… What kind of impact should we be seeing from them?