Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care.

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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

JULY 11, 2023

Last year and early 2023 has brought the launch of palliative care programs at organizations such as Florida-based Big Bend Hospice and Virginia-based Blue Ridge Hospice , among others. It also raises the bar on collaboration with geriatric populations.” That’s a different payer mix.

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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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