AlayaCare

JULY 17, 2018

For U.S. home care agencies rushing to implement federally-mandated electronic visit verification (EVV) systems, there looks to be some reprieve. Last month, the House passed a bill to push the initial deadline of January 1st, 2019 a full calendar flip to January 1st, 2020 for Medicaid-reimbursed home care providers to be up and running with EVV. While the bill still must pass the Senate, there is a strong likelihood this will move ahead, giving agencies some time to breathe and strategize about

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

JULY 17, 2018

This episode features Matthew Allsop (St Gemma’s Academic Unit of Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK). This retrospective cohort study aimed to identify patient and organisational factors that influence the duration of hospice-based palliative care in the United Kingdom prior to death. The results of this study found that despite increasing rhetoric around early referral, patients with advanced disease are receiving referrals to hospice specialist

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