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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Our philosophy is that palliative care as a whole should be kind of a blanket that goes over all of those things and helps coordinate the care that those patients need across all of those settings, no matter which specialists they’re seeing or which which Medicare defined service line they’re a part of, Walker told Palliative Care News.
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.
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Hospice News
MARCH 14, 2025
[Its] talking about the value that we bring from the perspective of patient care, and then talk about the plans, the payers, the opportunity to enhance their financial outcomes. This is a rise from Medicare hospice expenditures that reached $23.7 billion in 2022, Medicare (MedPAC) reported. Census Bureau report.
Hospice News
AUGUST 25, 2023
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2024 updates to the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model: care coordination, managing health equity-related risks and social determinants of health. Three principles are guiding the U.S.
Hospice News
AUGUST 4, 2023
The 2024 final hospice payment rule included a modest payment increase for general inpatient care (GIP) at a time when regulators are zeroing in on increased utilization and longer stays. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included in the rule a 1.031% increase to hospice GIP services.
Hospice News
MAY 4, 2023
And throughout health care, change is certainly in the air, with value-based payment models as key drivers. For one, care coordination is a watchword within the value-based programs. Historically, home-based care and hospice providers have worked primarily within Medicare fee-for-service models.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) raised hospice per diems by 3.8% With much of hospice payments and revenues coming from Medicare, it’s virtually impossible for hospices to shift costs to other payers. Proactive care models mean a change in mindset of the ‘we’ve always done it this way’ mentality,” Parker said.
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