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New Dementia-Focused Payment Model Emphasizes Caregiver Support

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Without family caregivers, most hospice and palliative care patients would be unable to receive care in the home. Now, some emerging payment models are including caregiver support as a key component. The model comes at a time when dementia-related illnesses are on the rise among hospice patients.

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How AccentCare Pursues Growth Via JVs, De Novos

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The second is delivering excellence in patient care, and the third is to continue to grow across all of our business lines. As we break those down a little bit, first, on the people and culture front, we really strive to provide an environment where people want to come and stay in today’s health care landscape.

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Aveanna Revs Hospice, Home Health M&A Engine

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“Our home health and hospice platform is dedicated to creating value through effective operational management and the delivery of exceptional patient care.” We are experiencing accelerated caregiver hiring trends, patient discharges from children’s hospitals and improved staffing levels in both Georgia and Massachusetts.”

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Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice

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To bring this philosophy into practice, Pennant offers training and guidance on palliative care for members of its physician group who oversee a patients care. These practitioners are reimbursed via Medicare Part B and have the ability to integrate palliative services into a patients care when medically warranted.

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National Alliance’s Scott Levy: Hospices Need ‘Regulatory Relief’ to Protect ‘Sacred Benefit’

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Those resources that have to be diverted toward responding to audits are ultimately being diverted away from patient care. Were all pushing on this to make sure that the hospice benefit is protected for those at the heart of it, the patients, families, caregivers and clinicians.

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CMS to Surveyors: Keep Eyes Open for Hospice Fraud

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Nevertheless, the primary focus for surveyors should be on direct patient care, per CMS. CMS said that reviewing certain documents and information that identify key managers, services and locations is “essential.”

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3 Key Hospice Technology Trends

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However, many organizations express uncertainty about effectively integrating AI into their workflows and patient care. We utilize technology to help reduce the burden of administrative tasks on caregivers, improve our caregivers engagement with patients, improve quality and compliance, and be more efficient with operations.

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