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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

Hospice News

One is how can we continue to diversify our services and help more people in more ways — and second, looking at how we can reduce our dependence on Medicare reimbursement. One of the things that we’re doing also is launch our new program on social isolation and loneliness with the frail elderly. So what do we do?

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EdenHill Senior Living Communities Starts In-House Hospice Business

Hospice News

Patients have already begun receiving care through EdenHospice, which is currently awaiting Medicare certification. The EdenHospice team includes a hospice physician, director of nursing, chaplain, social worker, aides and volunteers. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Texas reached 52.1%

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

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So for example, you know, the director of the assisted living facility could be the person who knows the patient the best. And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate.

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CareConnectMD Building Hospice Network as Footprint Grows

Hospice News

We contract with [the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)] as a direct contracting entity, and our job is to coordinate a network of providers, called DCE participants, and then also preferred providers, which would be hospices, home health agencies that can help coordinate the care as the patients move into the home setting.”.

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VITAS Expects Recruitment Gains to Spur 2023 Growth, Revenue

Hospice News

The bonus program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. jump from assisted living facilities. The decline resulted from the reinstated 2% Medicare sequestration, a 2.8% in Q4, along with a 2.7%

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Nonprofit Startup Emmaus Catholic Hospice: Supportive Culture Key to ‘Rapid Growth’

Hospice News

Becoming Medicare-certified in April 2023, the hospice served its first patient last June. Owens: We are a home hospice provider and take care of patients wherever they call home, whether it’s with family or in their own home or at a skilled nursing, memory care or assisted living facility.

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VITAS Community Access Program Spurs Upward Trend, but Staffing, COVID Headwinds Still Sting

Hospice News

These factors, along with the return of Medicare sequestration, have contributed to declining revenues. They also saw a 7% decline in assisted-living facility admissions. But some indicators in Q3 point to an upturn in some areas as 2023 approaches. Admission rates in Q3 were mixed depending on the referal source.