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Hospices Leaders: ‘Vigilant’ Compliance Pivotal in MAC Auditing Climate

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Based in Providence, Rhode Island, the nonprofit provides hospice, palliative care, grief support and dementia services in Massachusetts and in its home state. HopeHealth has an average daily hospice census of about 800 patients, with a similar range for palliative patient volumes.

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Managing the Hospice Payment Cap by Balancing Length of Stay

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Salinas made these remarks during a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference. This allows for greater flexibility in providing care to those in need.” Regulators and other stakeholders have been keeping an increasingly close eye on the payment cap.

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Hospices’ Collaboration with Discharge Planners Key to Effective Care Transitions

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Lissy Hu, president of connected networks, CarePort, a WellSky company Among the challenges associated with a hospice discharge is ensuring the timeliness of care — finding a hospice that can be with the patient in their home as soon as possible, according to Joan Carpenter, assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.

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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

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I don’t know that there’s enough access to hospice and palliative care services,” Rep. told Hospice News. When I look for ways to make sure that we try to drop the cost of Medicare per person, hospice and palliative care are attractive to me, because the more we utilize that, the lower costs can drop.” Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. See also our accompanying editorial , first author Ashwin Kotwal who joins today as a co-host, and a podcast I recorded with JAMA editor Preeti Malani). Alex, who are our guests today?