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Managing the Hospice Payment Cap by Balancing Length of Stay

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Careful management of the hospice aggregate cap is key to providers’ sustainability as regulatory scrutiny continues to heat up. The cap is designed to prevent overuse of hospice, put controls on Medicare spending and foster greater access to care among patients. This corresponds with quality of care considerations.

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Hospices’ Collaboration with Discharge Planners Key to Effective Care Transitions

Hospice News

Collaboration with hospital discharge planners can help hospices ensure smoother care transitions and timely referrals. Securing timely referrals for eligible patients remains a challenge because many hospice patients receive care for only a few days prior to death. So, it’s all about communication.”

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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

Recent allegations that staff at HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) put pressure on patients to enter hospice dovetail with longstanding questions over how and when patients should be referred. SEIU benchmarked HCA’s hospice transfer rates against national data. It’s hard to say that you have proof. This looks really questionable.”

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

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And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders. So a lot of results coming in when you think about, do these default orders for palliative care… What kind of impact should we be seeing from them? Eric: Okay.