Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Mayo has focused on geriatric care for 17 years, completing a residency in family practice at Bethesda St. Cancer has been one of the most common conditions among patients since the Medicare Hospice Benefit was established roughly 40 years ago. Croix Hospice in 2014 as an associate medical director. Joe’s Hospital in St.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Providers need stronger supportive programs that help caregivers more effectively navigate the challenges of dementia care, said principal investigator of the study Dr. David Reuben, director of geriatric medicine and gerontology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health system.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

About 25,271 Medicare decedents in 2021 elected the hospice benefit, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Currently 22.62% of the Maryland population is 60 or older, a number expected to rise to 26.6%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. The study spanned data among 199,828 Medicare decedents 50 and older who died in 2018.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Landers is a board-certified physician in hospice and palliative care, as well as family and geriatric medicine. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) officials. He most recently served as president of the consulting and advisory company Landers StratAGEy.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

The nonprofit senior care provider Empath Health is partnering with the Medicare Advantage organization American Health Plans (AHP), a division of American Health Partners to serve patients who are enrolled in Institutional Special Needs Plans (ISNP).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Building partnerships with other providers can help mitigate these barriers, according to Dr. Nathan Goldstein, professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. After experiencing a functional decline at the hospital, the woman, no longer able to live at home safely, was sent to an SNF for post-acute care, covered by Medicare. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ value-based insurance design (VBID) model has largely been met with a sense of relief by providers as they plan new initiatives for palliative care in 2025. The process of negotiating reimbursement was often unfavorable to providers, with rates lower than fee-for-service Medicare at times.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Actually, Manju, you probably could talk about yourself, but I cite it all the time of veterans who are equally eligible to get their care and Medicare fee for service system versus the VA and that patients who get their care in Medicare are more likely to start dialysis. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

On the patient side, Medicare beneficiaries face out-of-pocket costs when advance care planning is performed in any setting outside of an annual wellness visit. the bill proposed to remove Medicare beneficiary cost-sharing while also widening the scope of staff who can bill for these services. Introduced by U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The new nonprofit will combine SCAN’s Medicare portfolio with CareOregon’s predominantly Medicaid health plans. The legacy SCAN would become the Medicare division of the company. billion and will serve nearly 800,000 health plan members through Medicare and Medicaid managed care offerings. Humana Inc.’s

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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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). A lot has happened since the [Medicare Hospice Benefit] was first initiated. trillion , according to the U.S.

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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 On a Part A benefit, you’re getting that benefit from Medicare, so you want to have like 80/20 Medicare versus private payers. We really haven’t come up with the perfect payer mix yet,” he said. “It’s

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is replacing the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) model with ACO REACH. About 12% of the 2.1

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. of Medicare decedents elected hospice during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

However, he also emphasized the challenge of deploying skilled professionals to the home-based arena, where he said the best providers typically have combined skills in primary care, palliative care and even geriatrics. “We Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is affecting the palliative care space. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

The ability to scale a palliative care program comes with an understanding of how reimbursement takes shape within the scope of Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance realms, according to Lynn Spragens, founder and partner of Spragens & Gualtieri-Reed, a North Carolina-based health care consulting company. “A

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

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. The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

Homebase Medical, a subsidiary of SCAN Group, is developing a new palliative care model to care for some of the Medicare Advantage organization’s most vulnerable beneficiaries. It provides Medicare welcome visits, transitional care visits and palliative care for frail older adults. SCAN is a $4.3

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Patients with dementia often have longer hospice stays and require more intensive and expensive levels of care compared to others, drawing the attention around a potential call to change around how the Medicare Hospice Benefit is structured from providers, industry stakeholders and policymakers alike.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Fee-for-service reimbursement through Medicare only covers physician services rather than the full scope of interdisciplinary care, and coverage through value-based programs like Medicare Advantage are not available in many markets. “It

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Dr. Nathan Goldstein, professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said he agrees. So often the JV needs to work with insurers, including Medicare and Medicaid, to engage in risk-contracting to help cover some of the costs of these programs.” These partnerships are a win-win-win.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Unroe has worked in advance care planning and palliative care, dating back to experience at the Duke University Medical Center as a Geriatric Fellow and as a fellow for the Office of Disability, Aging, and Long Term Care Policy at the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , approximately 1.2

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2024

Recipients of home health and hospice distinction must demonstrate their ability to proactively ensure patient safety and provide goal-concordant care, in addition to implementing four evidence-based practices in geriatric care known as the “4Ms”: What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility. These metrics are rooted in the U.S.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sharon Brangman, who is a SUNY Distinguished Service professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and director of the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. ” Eric: Nice. So I agree.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The divestiture fits into Humana’s stated goal of raising its enterprise value by $1 billion , while building out its health care services and Medicare Advantage business. The company began as the fourth largest provider of Medicare-certified home health services and the 12th largest provider of Medicare-certified hospice services nationally.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I think from our perspective, that’s where we believe that Medicare Advantage plans are starting to see that value add. Standard, those that have new entrants and then the high-risk population ACOs.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

“We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher. Joel may know. Joel: Yeah.

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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.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

During his most recent tenure as the president and CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife, he led an organization known for superior senior living, geriatric health care, research and teaching. Landers has dedicated his career to seeking home- and community-based health care solutions for people of all ages.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In total hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 This paradigm shift will force continued consolidation and collaborations across the industry [and] will require growth through expansion into non-hospice services such as home health, geriatric medical services and other senior care programs.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Though far more resources are needed, more opportunities for clinical palliative care training have been emerging in recent years, according to Dr. Nathan Goldstein, currently professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. This paper was published recently in the Journal of American Geriatric Society Lead. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.

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