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Hospice News
MAY 30, 2025
A forthcoming alternative payment model for hospitals focuses on discharge planning and ensuring effective post-acute care, including hospice and palliative care when appropriate. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) late last year unveiled its new Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM).
Hospice News
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The organizations voiced “strong support” for extended telehealth utilization, which has helped reduce costs and barriers to quality care, improved timely access and expanded clinical bandwidth, they stated. Extending this flexibility, especially in rural and high-traffic urban areas, will significantly benefit both patients and providers.
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Hospice News
APRIL 11, 2025
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Friday announced its proposed 2026 hospice payment rule , which includes a 2.4% The increase represents an estimated $695 million rise in total hospice payments for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. The proposed hospice cap amount for FY 2026 is $35,292.51, slightly up from $34,465.34
Hospice News
DECEMBER 17, 2024
This could be interpreted as a signal of interest in retaining some of these flexibilities into the future, according to Katy Barnett, director of home care and hospice operations and policy at LeadingAge. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), they would not be able to recertify via telehealth.
Home Care Pulse
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Linda Leekley ( 12:51 ): So you’re saying that HOPE would be on, on admission more like the OASIS and, and MDs or, or during patient care, Dr. Jennifer Kennedy ( 13:00 ): So yeah, it would be adminis. So they’re invested in not only high quality care provision for the beneficiaries, but also in cost savings, obviously.
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