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New Dementia-Focused Payment Model Emphasizes Caregiver Support

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled in July 2023. The model comes at a time when dementia-related illnesses are on the rise among hospice patients. Caregivers of patients with longer prognoses face difficult emotional challenges, including feelings of guilt, frustration and grief, she stated.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Lauren O’Dwyer, CFO, Anvoi Hospice and Anvoi Management

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). With everything that’s changing in the industry right now, I’m more heavily involved in the decision-making with our hospices and how their care plans handle specific situations as they arise each and every day. It’s all in how to handle different situations.

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