Geriatrics Hospice care Medicare 
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
He was so intrigued that he gathered a few volunteers and began Hospice of the Valley, which was largely a volunteer organization living off of a few grants here and there prior to when hospice Medicare reimbursement came around in the early 1980s. Over the years, Hospice of the Valley has grown.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Croix Hospice in 2014 as an associate medical director. The Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G. Mayo has focused on geriatric care for 17 years, completing a residency in family practice at Bethesda St. Joe’s Hospital in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin.
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Hospice News
MAY 8, 2023
The company has about a dozen different insurance companies in its payer mix, in addition to Medicare and Medicaid. “We It’s not the same as home health and hospice. On a Part A benefit, you’re getting that benefit from Medicare, so you want to have like 80/20 Medicare versus private payers.
Hospice News
JUNE 9, 2023
Increasingly, both policymakers and providers are seeing potential opportunities to reform the Medicare Hospice Benefit, including the prospect of concurrent care. Driving these conversations is the need to lighten the nation’s heavy health care spend, which in 2021 reached $4.3 told Hospice News. “If
Hospice News
JULY 11, 2022
Among the program’s goals is to enroll at least 3,000 new Illinois patients into home-based primary care by 2024. million seniors who reside in Illinois are 85 or older, and 40% of Medicare beneficiaries in the state have four or more chronic conditions, according to HCCI. million primary care visits in 2016.
Hospice News
APRIL 22, 2024
Hospice providers with higher volumes of assisted living-based patients are 7% more likely to receive lower quality scores than those in other settings, according to a recent study , published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. It is likely that some other factors may have drawn lower-quality hospice agencies to ALs.
Hospice News
JULY 25, 2023
Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. We know that addressing issues related to quality of hospice care is timely and critical to state (and also federal) lawmakers,” Cagle told Hospice News in an email.
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