Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

These are usually chaplains or social workers providing bereavement services, and some hospices also have clinical psychologists or therapists as part of that team. There isn’t a guideline as to what would be considered best practice or appropriately fulfilling the Medicare requirements for bereavement,” Gross said.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

We can talk a little bit more about some of the components with ACO REACH or some of the other opportunities that are available through supplemental benefits, through the MA plans but essentially, we think that the Medicare Advantage plans realize the value of paying for palliative care and the value add of hospice.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

HSPN: Can you talk a little bit about what kind of disruption could occur in the hospice industry, as a result of Medicare Advantage? As more and more Medicare beneficiaries become of age every day, they’re opting into the MA plans. They always say they’re going to operate like Medicare, follow Medicare guidelines.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. Sweet Caroline. That’s the problem.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

So, it’s definitely an area of opportunity, where there’s just much more research that’s needed related to palliative care. It really plays such a huge benefit to the patient when you have a social worker or nurse come into the home, and they’re able to see things that they may not see in the office. One of [U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Definitely. This is something we are all going to experience, and about 50% of Medicare decedents will choose hospice. We’re saying that whether it be across engineering to marketing, strategic partnerships, all the way to care team members from nurses, social workers, dietitians, and death doulas.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Eric: Martha – breaking the definition for palliative care, no longer an extra layer of support. Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? But if somebody wants to continue a medication, and that’s sort of the deciding factor for them, with the Medi-Cal, Medicare, there’s restrictions that don’t allow me that flexibility. Michele: Yeah, absolutely. Michele: Yeah.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Continued slowdown of hospice caps: The legislation extends the cap calculation methodology implemented by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014. There is no requirement for hospices to use MFTs or MHCs and a social worker is still required if needed under a patient’s plan of care.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

In a recent comment letter , NHPCO included examples of hospital pressures on hospices and recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) or its contractors “should publish specific and accessible guidance about the hospital mortality metric specifically for hospitals and hospices.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: Yeah, I think I can definitely see Joe’s point of view. Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. Yes, my hair is definitely on fire. billion in one year hospice saved Medicare, and that was by focusing on what matters to people, to patients and families.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I think in that way, what we see with more than half of Medicare beneficiaries dying under the care of a hospice, that expansion was potentially a good thing. Melissa: It’s definitely true that that’s the incentive under nonprofit and for-profit. Alex: Can I ask a question? They both have to make money. Lauren: Yeah.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. 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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Brian: The standard definition that we take a lot, from the work of David Kissane, has been poor coping, the sense of helplessness or hopelessness, and a lack of purpose and meaning. To Brian’s point, that we are also integrating chaplains, social workers, it’s not necessarily two psychotherapists. What is this?

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 14, 2022

Actually I should have been a social worker. They have social workers for emotional, psychological support. That’s definitely a hurdle to get across. It, it definitely takes a special type of individual, you know, to be an end of life doula, be a caregiver that would see the end of life over and over again.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Especially because Hilary definitely told you that she had 2 weeks worth of orientation and preceptor time. This is solely due to demand and the availability of Medicare and other funding for home health services. This is great, you have your home health nursing orientation and preceptor time all next week…. Killin’ it!

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

But through a mixture of trust built on our relationship and exploring her underlying concerns, I think she ultimately listened to my reassurance that she would not lose her Medicare. Her Medicare coverage wasn’t changing, and this truth would bear out for her regardless of her belief. The truth was the truth.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Secondly, the scores from this survey are followed and recorded by Medicare. Table based on data measures from the Medicare Compare website. WHAT DOES MEDICARE CAHPS REPORT? Visit the Medicare Compare website to see how your agency stands up! Last but not least, the survey results are shared publicly on the internet.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

To make matters worse, hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any other health care setting in the care continuum as turnover rises to 27%. So while paying your employees more definitely impacts retention, the data shows that your caregivers are still looking for more than just pay.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

Now, for those of us in home care, you know, we know original Medicare is not a payer for us. So whether that’s, you know, skilled nursing, physical therapy, social worker, speech therapists, all different modalities that we work closely with, which is really important factor. We hear that all the time.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I think there’s definitely a stigma that, like you said, we just all wanna be fixers and we almost don’t wanna take advantage of that, that thought that, oh, the things I did weren’t enough, or I, I wasn’t able to to really fix that person. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

We know about 50% of all Medicare beneficiaries who are eligible for hospice care receive it. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] final wage index rule includes a payment increase for this next fiscal year 2023 of 3.8%. What are your thoughts on how the 2023 final rule will affect providers and patients?

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

They’re associated with about 90% of deaths in the Medicare population. I think that was always cool is that we adopted a pretty broad definition. So physicians, this person should definitely have it, and the white population had more of it, so it just kind of balanced that out. I think you had to be age over 55.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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