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CMS Proposes 2026 Hospice Payment Rule with Potential ‘Unimaginable’ Consequences

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hike CMS approved in its 2025 final rule. The payment update reflects a 5% annual wage index update, rising inpatient care costs alongside the potential financial impacts of new quality standards, according to the agency. increase in per diem payments alongside evolving quality reporting measures. It is also lower than the 2.9%

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

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So if it’s an absolutely emergency, you got a physician in the med, you know, the health center medical director, if it’s urgent, like in this particular case, we get the ethics committee involved. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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So there are some clinics where you can talk to the medical director and they may give people like a take home dose for the afternoon. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. And I let them know that when they go back out to their treatment clinic that it’s going to be consolidated once again.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Hope is a palliative care doc and hospice medical director at Evergreen Health up near Seattle, Washington. There was a patient who was living in Seattle at a skilled nursing facility. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us.

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HSPN ELEVATE: Hospice Clinical Innovation Trends

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This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. What they care about is professional development. HSPN: Thank you.

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