Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Oftentimes it’s either combination of home visits and telephonic services. Sometimes they might be doing consultations either inpatient or in the nursing home or in assisted living. There are things you can bill for, particularly your traditional Medicare; you can bill for some of the clinician visits.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ramped up auditing activity in the space while also sunsetting the hospice component of its value-based insurance design (VBID) model demonstration ahead of its initial expiration. The financial incentives in Medicare Advantage are designed to reduce overutilization, researchers indicated.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

And I think with the Medicare hospice benefit not meeting the needs of older adults, it’s very hard to even have a segue to have those conversations because you can’t really offer people a path forward in a way that aligns with their values. Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Eric: BlackRock.

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Community Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2022

It’s not difficult to understand why most people feel comfortable aging in their current homes. Moving to an assisted living facility can be difficult. Here we offer a comprehensive outline of how hired caregivers can be of assistance, as well as the benefits patients enjoy while living at home: 1.

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

Building strong relationships with referral sources such as hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, assisted living facilities , and home health agencies can help you develop a consistent client rate. Grants and loans may be available, but research all funding options before deciding.

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Hospice Law Blog

MARCH 18, 2020

Many hospices report that nursing homes and assisted living facilities are on infection lockdown (perhaps rightly so) and will not admit hospice staff to see patients. Here is what we need to do: Telehealth. Certification/Narrative.

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Caregiver Support Services

MARCH 7, 2024

Additionally, consider your savings and assets, such as properties or investments, and pay careful attention to coverage gaps in your Medicare or private insurance plans. This type of insurance provides coverage for various care costs, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health care services.

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Seasons Hospice

MAY 21, 2024

Many older adults are living on fixed incomes, making it difficult to afford dental services, especially if they lack insurance coverage for dental procedures. Policymakers can consider options such as including dental benefits in Medicare or creating separate dental insurance programs tailored to the needs of older adults.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Offering hospice can be a gamechanger for skilled nursing and assisted living operators looking to stand out from competitors and improve patient reach. Home-based care, including hospice, has become an increasingly attractive space for facility-based health care providers of all walks. Among the 1.6 Among the 1.6

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Utilization of the general inpatient level of care (GIP) is frequently the subject of audits by Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs), and avoiding or responding to that scrutiny requires strict compliance to a complex web of rules. If GIP billing exceeds that metric, the hospice must refund those payments to Medicare.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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. And what is their motivation, Eric?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. Alex: Can I ask a question? Melissa, were you a banker before you did research?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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