Hospice care Medicare Presentation 
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently elaborated on its plans to expand public education campaigns designed to help protect hospice beneficiaries from fraudulent actors in the space. Program integrity concerns have heated up in the hospice industry.
Hospice News
APRIL 10, 2024
The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should consider is retiring the six-month terminal prognosis requirement and allowing for some concurrent care, Wallace and Wladkowski indicated.
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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.
Hospice News
MARCH 7, 2025
How can we really partner with them on the talking points to broach these goals-of-care conversations so they understand what is included through Medicare and Medicaid services while still being comfortable in their homes. They can use that energy trying to figure it all out to focus on being present.
Hospice News
JULY 31, 2023
Longer stays yield greater savings Regulators have fixed their gaze on longer hospice stays as signals of potential fraud, waste and abuse. Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 The longer the hospice stay, the more potential savings.” That’s a huge difference and a huge value to Medicare,” Munevar said.
Hospice News
MARCH 15, 2024
Common pain and symptom management medications used in the hospice space can be particularly “problematic” in terms of overlapping risk factors for adverse effects, he said. Adverse drug events (ADEs) present on a spectrum from discomfort to medical emergency, so the impacts can range widely,” Krout told Hospice News in an email.
Hospice News
MAY 31, 2024
Determining when a person with this condition is nearing the final stages can be a complicated process, making the ability to assess appropriateness for hospice a challenge, Brandt said. Opportunities exist to formulate improved plans for concurrent hospice care among pediatric patients in particular, she added.
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