Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

VITAS saw nursing home admissions rise 9.4% jump from assisted living facilities. and home-based admissions also dipped 7.5%. The decline resulted from the reinstated 2% Medicare sequestration, a 2.8% For some of those other metrics, results were mixed for both Q4 and full-year 2022. in Q4, along with a 2.7%

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Since 2020, the company has been beleaguered by the staffing shortage, reduced lengths of stay, and disruption in skilled nursing, senior housing, and to some extent acute-care referrals. These factors, along with the return of Medicare sequestration, have contributed to declining revenues. drop among those referred from hospitals.

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Chicago Caregiving

JULY 6, 2024

Generally, the person or their loved one has to choose among assisted memory care, skilled nursing (a facility that offers care from licensed nurses), home care, rehabilitation, or sub-acute care (which requires specialized tools or treatments).

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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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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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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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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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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

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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Chicago Caregiving

JULY 6, 2024

Look at it this way: Less doctor visits, hospital stays, or even the need for nursing home placement can save dividends in the long run. Marcie Nach: Not only is the cost of living in an assisted living or long-term care facility prohibitive, but one or both spouses may also need to hire a private caregiver as well.

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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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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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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

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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