Hospice News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

For Fiscal Year 2024, the U.S. The average length of stay for a patient with a neurological condition in 2022 was 159 days, compared to 106 days for those with cardiac conditions and 52 days for those with cancer, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services set the cap at $33,394.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

The agency posed similar queries in its proposed rule for 2024. It would also remove three nursing home items from the survey, revise the existing Hospice Team Communication and Getting Hospice Care Training measures and add a new Care Preferences measure. It would also “shorten and simplify” the survey, according to CMS.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Hospice providers need to have nursing facilities and hospitals available to partner with … Congress needs to investigate the causes and impacts of these closures as well as find incentives for all providers to enter and stay in rural and frontier communities.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And it turns out, actually, it was a classical study published by Neil Resnick in New England Journal of Medicine many years ago, which was a nursing home study of more than 100 incontinent nursing home residents, study of urodynamics.

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Nurse.com

JUNE 3, 2022

Entering the hospital or a nursing home long-term poses both physical and mental risks. A research study found that approximately 20% of all nursing home residents have major depression (about 350,000 people in the U.S.), Transitioning to Home Healthcare. and an additional 30% have significant depressive symptoms.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JUNE 5, 2023

In the 25 years since, the OIG has issued multiple and specific CPGs that apply to particular segments of the healthcare industry including Medicare Advantage organizations, hospitals, home health agencies, nursing homes, and clinical laboratories.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The end of the beginning in the fight against fraud Hospices have been feeling the regulatory heat in recent years and 2024 was no exception. The hospice M&A market hit a slump in 2023 and 2024 due to a range of factors. interest rate cut in 2024, with more reductions expected over the course of this year.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursing home residents who initiate dialysis. So, for example, you know, we see somebody coming in from the nursing. A nursing home. Let it be (hint hint).

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2025

Fosina recently ascended to the hospitals helm after serving as COO of Calvary since March 2024, overseeing its integrated services with parent organization ArchCare, the health care ministry of the Archdiocese of New York. A Calvary Hospice nurse practitioner, for example, could provide dedicated service to a nursing home.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Some settings may have tighter policies than others, such as skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes, according to Gurian. CMS will no longer waive Life Safety Code requirements for the placement of alcohol-based hand rub dispensers in skilled nursing facilities. Additional waivers are also going away.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Katie: Well, I think you’re assuming that they’re accepting them to nursing homes, which is usually the first stop sign. Katie: Yep. Jessie: Yep.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I once had a patient in the ICU at Moffitt who had had a stroke and was facing, not recovered, going to a nursing home with a feeding tube.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. There have been nursing homes that have been sued for patient chokes on some food is DNR DNI, and nobody goes to help the patient perform a simple Heimlich because they’re DNR DN I. Would that really happen nowadays? Bill 16:01 To.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 14, 2022

During the March 1, 2022 State of the Union address, President Biden reaffirmed the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to protecting residents and staff of nursing homes. To support this VBP expansion, CMS cited its own Reports to Congress on the Appropriateness of Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios in Nursing Homes from 2001.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The regulatory watchdog agency’s hospice-related enforcement actions thus far in 2024 have included roughly $143.81 The Biden Administration also has taken aim at private equity and real estate investment in the nursing home sector. CMS has finalized rules mandating greater transparency related to nursing home ownership.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex 16:46 On time to nursing, needing nursing home level of care. There’s a jama.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes. Alex 03:54 Very generous.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2023

With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) going away on May 11, many of the temporary flexibilities that came with it are expected to end, though Congress did extend some through 2024, including hospice re-certifications via telehealth.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Huge.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and mRNA vaccines COVID treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid Differences in COVID impact on nursing home residents and those with serious illnesses We wrap up with a “magic wand” question.

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