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Hospices Welcome Expanded Chaplain Services Codes, Seek Clarity on Applicability

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Hospices are seeking greater clarity on updated Medicare rules that allow hospices to document a broader range of chaplain services on claims. Tracking the use and services of chaplains is an important and overlooked data. In recent years, the hospice community has sought better ways to measure and account for chaplain services.

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Culture, Compensation, Education Are Keys to Hospice Chaplain Turnover

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The hospice chaplain shortage is reaching a tipping point. As they work to recruit and retain their chaplain labor force, hospices are contending with a barrage of issues that also can impact patient access. More than 7,768 chaplains were employed by hospices nationwide in 2019, according to the Zippia report.

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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

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Couzens has also held hospice chaplain roles at St. As a hospice chaplain, I was often confronted with the pressure of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole when it comes to how underserved communities are actually reached and cared for. Elizabeth Healthcare and Trustbridge prior to its affiliation with Empath Health.

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Stillwater Hospice CFO: A Winning Recipe for Improving Rural Hospice Care

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As we look at diversity, language barriers and being more inclusive, were doing a better job of providing Medicare beneficiaries with more care. For example, we try to buy vehicles for our nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. From a cost standpoint, paying for that mileage is very expensive.

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Key Research Trends: Long Hospice Stays, Palliative Care Save Medicare Dollars

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Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been zeroing in on long lengths of stay as a potential red flag, one that could suggest a hospice admitted someone who was not truly eligible.

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Michigan Center for Rural Health Working to Expand Rural Palliative Care

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The two organizations, which have partnered on projects related to critical care hospitals and Medicare beneficiaries, will choose five rural communities in the state with the goal of increasing their capacity to provide palliative care.

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How Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley Built a Collaborative Care Model Without Medicare Certification

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After more than a decade working in hospice leadership, Alli Collins came across something she had never seen before — a financially viable, all-volunteer provider that is not Medicare-certified. I’ve spent well over a decade in the Medicare-certified side of the world. She never instituted a Medicare provider number.

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