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Leadership Transitions at 4 Hospice Providers

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Bill is an icon in the industry and a staunch Medicare beneficiary advocate, always putting patients first and fighting for their rights and benefits. His insights will be invaluable as we continue to innovate home care and Burn the Ships to rethink and redesign care delivery models. as well as the U.S.

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Federal Officials Call for Stronger Medicare Advantage Oversight

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Congressional legislators are casting doubts on regulatory oversight of Medicare Advantage plans over concerns about spending, claims denials, and end-of-life care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) or any Medicare Advantage plans spoke at this hearing. No representatives from the U.S.

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Adena Health, ASHN Form Hospice, Home Health JV

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Adena Health System operates four Ohio hospitals with a total of 341 beds, as well as six regional clinics, a medical group, behavioral health services and a charitable foundation, among others. The health system currently employs more than 4,000 workers. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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New Executives Tapped At Hospice Organizations Across Country

Hospice News

During his tenure, he has helped to develop and oversee the launch of the NPHI Innovation Lab, which focuses on designing systematic approaches to improve advanced illness care by examining trends in population health, claims analytics and practice optimization. Whitley joined the organization 29 years ago as a visiting nurse. “I

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Program Integrity, Health Equity, Workforce Pressures Top of Mind for Hospice Leaders in 2024

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Among them is an evolving conversation around potential changes to the Medicare Hospice Benefit, an increasing focus on equitable access and service diversification to engage patients further upstream. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended through 2030. Hospice care reduces Medicare expenditures by about $3.5

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Future Leader: Drake Jarman, SVP of Growth, Hospice, Amedisys

Hospice News

This entails closer integration with palliative care and innovative payment models that allow for holistic, end-of-life care. A notable challenge, however, pertains to the adoption of the value-based insurance design (VBID) [demonstration] by [Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs)].

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Ep.6: The State of Training in 2022

Home Care Pulse

And then I transitioned to clinical education first at the local level, and then at, at a corporate level for a, uh, national, uh, home health company. Well, for anyone who is around in home health in 1998, <laugh> Dinosaur years, um, Medicare did one of its reimbursement cuts.

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