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How to Diversify Services Within the Medicare Hospice Benefit

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Hospices nationwide have been diversifying their services to include palliative care, PACE, home-based primary care and a host of other business lines. However, some organizations have found success with disease-specific programs reimbursed through the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice of the Chesapeake Launches New Dementia Program Amid ‘Urgent, Significant’ Need

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Hospice of the Chesapeake has unfurled a new dementia care program aimed at providing improved emotional, educational and practical support for patients and their caregivers as their conditions progress. Responding to the community’s needs is a “responsibility we cannot ignore,” she added.

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2024’s Most Read Palliative Care News Stories

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Topping the list of trends to watch in the last year was rising demand among swelling aging populations with chronic conditions, many of which lack the caregiving and family support to manage their symptoms in the home. This trend has helped community-based palliative care to earn greater recognition of its benefits.

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5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

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The project is designed to learn more about the innovative, person-centered care models that can help address common challenges that these patients and their caregivers face including approaches that integrate palliative care services. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services value-based insurance design (VBID) model.

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How Palliative Care Providers Can Enhance Care Coordination

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Navigating system challenging for patients Critiques of current care coordination often focus on the disjointed experiences patients have when dealing with multiple providers, specialists and other services. Christopher Comfort, CEO of Calvary Hospital, told Palliative Care News.

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Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice

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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.

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Inside Heart to Heart Hospice’s Palliative Care Growth Strategy

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The Texas-based hospices InHome Connect Palliative Care brand has led to significant declines in capitated per member per month (PMPM) costs and positive trends in timely access. The results are a product of the hospices recently formed value-based partnership with a leading unnamed Medicare Advantage plan in its home state.