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Bill is an icon in the industry and a staunch Medicare beneficiary advocate, always putting patients first and fighting for their rights and benefits. His insights will be invaluable as we continue to innovate homecare and Burn the Ships to rethink and redesign care delivery models.
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Today, in a time of financial and workforce challenges, we should be expanding access to care at home, not cutting it. The organization currently provides home health care, palliativecare, grief services, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), adult day services, primary care services and more.
The research examined Medicare hospice beneficiary data including timely start of care following patient admission, disenrollment and live discharge rates, volume of patient visits, length of stay and billing claim amounts. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Care Compare site.
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Logan Hoover, vice president of policy and government relations for the National Alliance for Care at Home, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Hospice News. So that’s where I really started to learn the policies of hospice and palliativecare through his work in that space, and his interest in that space.
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