NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

On behalf of our member hospices NHPCO has raised concerns about hospitals pressuring hospices to admit patients in the last hours of life. Reality: The median length of stay in hospice care is 17 days and the average lifetime length of stay is 92.1 days, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

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Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Other benefits hospice care for veterans provides include: Delivering individualized care plans that address medical and psychological issues common in veterans. A comprehensive care team comprised of physicians, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual professionals, and trained volunteers.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

When you don’t document, Medicare doesn’t pay. Think of it this way, if Medicare repeatedly denies payment, then you might not get that raise you deserve. Document using hospice scales: Medicare uses scales to determine eligibility. These scales are just one way to document hospice eligibility and changes.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

Fortunately, as America has begun going home to die with higher quality of life at ever increasing rates, the hospice industry has also grown to support that. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Additionally, Medicare pays 100% for home hospice with no copays or deductibles.

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Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 20, 2021

In most cases, you will have access to a hospice doctor, as well as a nurse/nurse practitioner 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Also, your team may include counselors, social workers, pharmacists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, hospice aides, and more. Does Hospice Care Work to Cure the Disease?

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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. If not, your patients may end up struggling to ensure all the bills are paid. Alice receives care for her ALS at a specialized ALS clinic.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

An example of this could be that your hospice aide has requested a change in diaper size for the patient. These are all items that can support hospice recertification. When a hospice patient is enrolled for a long period of time, this can result in increased scrutiny of your documentation.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Now that we have that out of the way, we can talk candidly about providing hospice care in the nursing home. When you provide care at the nursing home, you must follow the regulatory standards of the SNF, Medicare, and your agency. It also helps to establish the best visit days and can help you establish your hospice aide schedules.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

So when I was researching what hospice was, I was learning through Googling, instead of necessarily learning from the doctors that that’s what he needed. After that, when he went into in-home hospice, I can’t tell you how much the home hospice aides and the nurses were working so hard to try to give my dad the best experience.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Among the considerations behind that choice was his experience in working with payers outside of traditional Medicare. Historically, home-based care and hospice providers have operated primarily within Medicare fee-for-service models. Before that, he was president of Walgreens Co.,

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. 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.

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