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Palliative Care Increasingly Important in Value-Based Landscape

Hospice News

Primarily, Medicare reimburses for palliative care through fee-for-service payment programs that cover physician and licensed independent practitioner services. Already, a growing range of health care providers are investing in those services, including hospices, home health agencies, health systems, primary care and other providers.

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Hospice News ELEVATE : Fireside Chat with Netsmart

Hospice News

HSPN: Can you talk a little bit about what kind of disruption could occur in the hospice industry, as a result of Medicare Advantage? Warren: I know many of you in the audience have home health organizations, you see the challenges that home health organizations face, from an M&A disruption. Are you not?

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UnityPoint VP Agnew: Educate Patients, Clinicians to Expand Hospice

Hospice News

When you talk about an interdisciplinary team coming into your home — nurses, a social worker, chaplain, having access to the physician, volunteers — people are automatically going to think that there’s a cost associated with that. Can you give me some details about that initiative?

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

We had a lot of this in home health, and now it’s hospice’s turn to be scrutinized. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. This seems to go in waves.

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