Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

She recently spoke with Hospice News about the industry’s changing environment and the potential to revise aspects of the Medicare benefit, as well as top priorities for her upcomiing term at AAHPM. Do you think there are aspects of the Medicare benefit as it’s currently designed that need to be changed or updated?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 27, 2025

I debated whether to focus this article on how efficiency connects to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services National Quality Strategy or how it relates to proactive patient identification in skilled nursing. Being a good steward of the Medicare trust fund requires both delivering needed care and avoiding preventable expenses.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 27, 2025

I debated whether to focus this article on how efficiency connects to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services National Quality Strategy or how it relates to proactive patient identification in skilled nursing. Being a good steward of the Medicare trust fund requires both delivering needed care and avoiding preventable expenses.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

For example, if your patient was eating 50% upon admission and able to feed themselves, and now they require assistance with feeding and are only eating 25%, you should state it in detail. Physical : Patient requires full assist with feeding, eating 25% of meals, was eating 50% last period. You want to avoid this at all costs.

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Traditions Health

MARCH 27, 2023

In fact, a patient must be homebound for Medicare to cover the costs. By delivering care directly to the patient, we can help them avoid expensive hospital bills and can keep the ED open for others. Your patient is homebound If your patient is homebound, it’s likely they would benefit from home health care.

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Traditions Health

AUGUST 21, 2023

If you’re eligible, Medicare, Veteran Affairs, or private insurance covers home health care services. Cost savings Home health care is more affordable than staying at a hospital or long-term care facility. It reduces health care expenses while maintaining high-quality care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Nadine: Especially where Medicare generally won’t cover that population on CGMs unless they’re on insulin. We have a chef who will cook our patients anything they want for comfort feeding end of life, and this means no carb counting, and our staff and our nurses aren’t trained to manage insulin related to food.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

We need to change the paradigm a little bit and learn from how our partners on the Medicare side of the fence handle scheduling. They want to know when I need them so they can plan the rest of their life which feeds into the notion of work-life balance. Create work-life balance with flexible but consistent work schedules.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

So the Oasis is the data tracker for cms that every patient who has Medicare as their primary, primary insurance has to have on file. Don’t panic at Medicare. It’s the improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act. If you teach Amanda Fish, you feed him for the rest of his life. So it’s scary.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), followed by health plans, usually sets the general tone of quality assessment and incentives, thus influencing the allocation of resources to specific programs in the short and long term.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I looked up the annual Medicare spending, is about one 10th that, so it’s like 10 times the annual Medicare budget. And, I would lower the Medicare age so that there’s Medicare for all. Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed. Alex: That’s a lot of money. Eric: Not on amyloid drugs.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

Every call or message creates a case that feeds into our newly developed dashboard. Another crucial part of our clinical support is the provision of drug utilization reviews (DURs) required under Medicare Conditions of Participation. We are committed to enhancing the customer experience with our dedicated training and quality teams.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. The third recommendation would be to make it a requirement that you can’t get Medicare without an advanced directive. People think of Medicare as an insurance product.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

She could no longer feed herself, much less cook, and was dependent on others for everything. Payer Sources: Private HMO insurance plan through Alice’s job Medicare as Alice became eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare when she was diagnosed with ALS. As her ALS progressed, she lost the ability to speak.

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Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

Nurses aides can assist with activities of daily living such as toileting, bathing, and feeding. Medicare hospice benefit covers the cost of medications related to the hospice diagnosis, durable medical equipment such as a wheelchair or hospital bed, and the medical, spiritual and social services that are provided.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” But I think one aspect there was, what’s up with cancer pain, in general? Is cancer pain really different? Should we be excluding it?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

Before a patient is admitted to hospice, they must meet Medicare eligibility criteria. Foleys/Tubes -Does the patient have any tubes such as feeding tubes, CADD pumps, or Foley catheters. If the patient is on tube feedings, you will want to verify that they have feeding supplies available. Hospice Intake & Admissions.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s not the tool itself, it’s that doctors are handing out POLSTs to people at they’re welcome to Medicare or annual wellness exams. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. People who just want to default treatment. Don’t give that person a POLST.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The answer to that question determined whether the beer went down the feeding tube or was a savor and spit process. Sunday dinners involved feeding four generations. Sometimes it meant helping a patient distinguish between the desire for the taste of beer and the buzz associated with beer consumption. Love and laughter filled the home.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And then we linked that cohort with administrative data, which allowed me to pull out the ICU admissions in addition to manually abstracting all of the paper data for the managed Medicare participants. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Myth 4: Hospice Care Hastens Death A common misconception is that hospice care hastens death by withholding life-sustaining treatments such as IV fluids, feeding tubes, or resuscitation efforts. This broad scope allows many patients and families to access the compassionate care they need, no matter what condition they are facing.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Before that healthcare was cooking along really growing and then this balanced budget act was passed in 1997 and it drastically slashed Medicare reimbursement amounts for services across the continuum. It was outta my control actually it was the balanced budget act of 1997. You know, CMS was looking to save 1.6 billion over five years.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 22, 2023

A s part of the order, a portion of Medicare payments could be reliant on how well these facilities retain staff. Brenda used to start her morning by getting the dining room ready for the clients who would need assistance feeding themselves. But she left. Between setting the tables, she would also be running the blender.

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