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 The integration of technology into palliative care services and research is also on the rise, according to experts. “In

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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 impending demise of the hospice component of U.S. That problem was mirrored in the environment outside of the program.

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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. But we’re probably seeing 20% to 25% growth month over month right now.”

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Strains on reimbursement, referrals and staffing represent the biggest obstacles to palliative care providers’ viability and growth. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services.

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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. A rising number of health systems and community-based providers have been making larger investments in palliative care through joint ventures. These partnerships are a win-win-win.

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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. 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.

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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

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. It’s really a clinical-first model.”

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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. This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health.

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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 Unroe said.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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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). The organization is the parent company of 20 affiliates and four philanthropic foundations.

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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. Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas. Introduced by U.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

JUNE 9, 2022

I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022.

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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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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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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

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. A projected 12.7

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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. But business trends are also driving change.

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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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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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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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NHPCO

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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JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today? Alex 12:52 Yeah.

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JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Alex Lee, who’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. Goldilocks zone). Nadine: Thank you, guys.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Nicole: One other thing to mention with that analysis though, is we didn’t have Medicare, we didn’t have claims data for the hospitalization. The post Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently recognized Bloom as a top performing High-Needs Accountable Care Organization under the agency’s Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model. We have Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles, Medicare Advantage, Medicare fee-for-service.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The research examined Medicare hospice beneficiary data including timely start of care following patient admission, disenrollment and live discharge rates, volume of patient visits, length of stay and billing claim amounts. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Care Compare site. Morrison is also the Ellen and Howard C.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2020

But through a mixture of trust built on our relationship and exploring her underlying concerns, I think she ultimately listened to my reassurance that she would not lose her Medicare. Her Medicare coverage wasn’t changing, and this truth would bear out for her regardless of her belief. The truth was the truth.

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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. They often have long periods of caregiving.

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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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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. Spano: There’s roughly 52 Medicare Advantage plans that have a VBID offering that covers approximately 10 million American lives today.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. They’ve all been laid out for you. Alex: Great Eric: These are the questions submitted by our audience? Anne: Right. So, we’re not totally winging it here. Alex: Oh no.

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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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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 1, 2024

A growing body of research touts the benefits of palliative care for patients, families, and even providers. However, when evaluated through randomized clinical trials, the results tend to lean toward mediocre. I think the measures we have, it’s not so much that they’re wrong, but they certainly are imprecise,” Dr. Kathleen M.

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