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Payers to CMMI: We Need a Standardized Definition for Palliative Care

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A group of health plans, policymakers, and insurance companies recently told the Center for Medicare & Medicare Innovation (CMMI) that they needed a standardized definition for palliative care in order to improve access. The definition of palliative care that is out there is something that’s an intangible.

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C-TAC: CMS’ ‘Palliative’ Definition in 2025 Proposed Hospice Rule ‘Misaligned, Problematic’

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This definition could complicate hospices’ ability to accurately and appropriate bill for palliative care, C-TAC stated. The post C-TAC: CMS’ ‘Palliative’ Definition in 2025 Proposed Hospice Rule ‘Misaligned, Problematic’ appeared first on Hospice News. This would require tight monitoring to flag and reduce that.

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How the Right Investments Can Help Hospices Reduce Turnover

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Turnover remains a big risk Health care workers have increasingly dropped out of the workforce in the past few years, according to a report from Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ: DH). Of the 2% of hospice clinicians that left the field, roughly 26 of them were nurse practitioners, he stated.

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The Hurdles Providers May Face When Setting Up a Palliative Care Program

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It definitely affects the staff that you’re going to need and the enrollment. There’s definitely all sorts of missteps in terms of everyday billing, but the financial piece is really where the missteps are. Are there any kind of common missteps that providers sometimes make as they’re moving through this process?

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U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne: Crack Down on Hospice Fraud

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Because there’s definitely an increasing need every day for the hospice services; we don’t want to limit the growth of good actors, but you definitely don’t want to give more money to the bad. Whether or not that needs to be clarified, it’s definitely something that our office can review and look further into.

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Palliative Care Needs a Defined Scope to Expand Access, Reimbursement

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A primary barrier for patient and family access to palliative care is a lack of standardized definition and payment mechanism. Without an established palliative care benefit or universally recognized definition in place, care delivery models, patient experiences and reimbursement of palliative care services vary widely across the nation.

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Future Leader: Hayley Powell, Clinical Operations Manager, PalliCare

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It would definitely be how people view hospice and palliative care. I definitely hope that we can get into a benefit period of palliative care, that would be the most amazing thing that Congress could give us. That’s the biggest hurdle that we’ve come across in the past two and a half years since we’ve been a company.