Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.” 19 CSR 30-82.050(2)(A)-(F).

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Please read full disclosure for more information. Hospice care is delivered anywhere the patient calls home and for many elderly, this includes the nursing home. Learn how you can build better relationships with nursing homes while delivering quality hospice care. BENEFITS FOR NURSES.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ACHC initially focused on accrediting home health agencies, but over the years, it has expanded its scope to include other health care sectors such as hospice, hospital, pharmacy, DME, home care and renal dialysis. For more information on Voices, please contact sales@agingmedia.com.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

And I think with the Medicare hospice benefit not meeting the needs of older adults, it’s very hard to even have a segue to have those conversations because you can’t really offer people a path forward in a way that aligns with their values. Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: Here’s our contact information.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). The PAC QRP Support team will conduct further analysis to inform this decision.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. I got a question then, because I see one in 12 nursing home patients with dementia are placed on thickened liquids. I think it’s around one in 12 nursing home patients But it’s a lot. Eric: Oh yeah. I see this in a lot in dementia. Raele: Yeah.

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Nurse.com

JUNE 3, 2022

Rather than leaving the profession altogether, nurses should consider the benefits of home health care positions compared to working in the hospital environment. Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses. Entering the hospital or a nursing home long-term poses both physical and mental risks.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JUNE 5, 2023

In the 25 years since, the OIG has issued multiple and specific CPGs that apply to particular segments of the healthcare industry including Medicare Advantage organizations, hospitals, home health agencies, nursing homes, and clinical laboratories. 2] To join OIG’s listserv, visit [link].

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Sahara Hospice Care

OCTOBER 13, 2021

People who have Medicare qualify for these four levels of care. The four levels of hospice care are: Routine home care: routine care is the basic regular hospice care that could be provided by home or a hospice facility. This is usually given at hospice facilities, nursing homes, hospitals and more.

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The World According to Dr. El

JANUARY 11, 2022

Late last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that they will begin to post staff turnover data on the Medicare.gov Care Compare website. . Attending to turnover has the potential to improve quality, reduce certain expenditures, and rehabilitate the public’s image of nursing homes.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Please read full disclosur e for more information. 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. Related Article: 3 Common Mistakes Hospice Nurses Make and How to Avoid Them. This post may contain affiliate links.

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Caregiver Support Services

MARCH 7, 2024

Additionally, consider your savings and assets, such as properties or investments, and pay careful attention to coverage gaps in your Medicare or private insurance plans. You can make more well-informed decisions when it comes to planning for the future and long-term care with a complete understanding of your finances.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

among Medicare decedents in 2023, up more than two percentage points from the prior year, according to recent data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Total Medicare hospice payments in 2023 reached $25.7 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which is being implemented this year.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

An excerpt from that blog here: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has consulted with Acumen in an effort to establish a comprehensive approach to Medicare Part A PPS SNF payment reform. Assess the impact of the payment alternative on SNF residents, SNF providers, and the overall Medicare system. Well, great news!

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Nursing services : RNs visit patients in residential homes, nursing homes and hospitals. The Medicare hospice benefit covers over 85% of hospice patients. Check out our FAQ page for more information. We’ve broken down some of our most prominent services into three categories below. .

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The majority of hospice care in the US is covered by Medicare, the federal health insurance program. Medicare will cover: Medical and nursing services. The National Cancer Institute , part of the National Institutes of Health, provides valuable information on the subject of hospice care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursing home residents who initiate dialysis. So, for example, you know, we see somebody coming in from the nursing. A nursing home. Let it be (hint hint).

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

Quality inequities among special needs, dually-eligible beneficiaries Dually-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries may have a lower likelihood of receiving care from high-quality hospice providers, according to a recent analysis. Consumers need better information on hospice quality.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care. The study spanned data among 199,828 Medicare decedents 50 and older who died in 2018. More than half (59%) spent the last three years of life in the home. About 27% were in skilled nursing home care with “heavy use” of home health and hospice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. And what is their motivation, Eric?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And if we don’t do it now, we’re gonna be talking about this 20 years from now, and all of us are going, we’ll be sitting in our, you know, skilled nursing home, talking to each other about it. Like, Boy, wish I was home. There, most state association’s websites are just a fountain of information.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2022

Transitions Hospice is a portfolio company of the Transitions Group, which also holds skilled nursing, home health, medical equipment and therapy assets. It’s really enhanced how quickly a patient can be seen and treated, but we’re also reducing the Medicare cost by being able to come and provide the services immediately.”.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Smith said Prospero’s global measure of success is providing more days for patients at home, rather than keeping them in hospitals, nursing homes or rehab facilities. Reimbursement for palliative care in fee-for-service Medicare currently only covers physician or nurse practitioner services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Our job is to provide that support, education, coaching, and give them their options so that they can make informed decisions that’s best for them.” Winegarner came into the field in 1976, making her one of the longest serving hospice nurses in the country.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Another recent example came in December when Arizona-based Hospice of the Valley launched a community education program to help inform health care providers about dementia care support and patients’ changing needs as they age. I think that’s going to be a continuing area of focus.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And if we don’t do it now, we’re gonna be talking about this 20 years from now, and all of us are going, we’ll be sitting in our, you know, skilled nursing home, talking to each other about it. Like, Boy, wish I was home. There, most state association’s websites are just a fountain of information.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

But I think what we’re missing a lot of information on what Joe is talking about is just how much variation there is in that within both non-profit and for-profit, and I think these issues are coming up in non-profit hospices as well, and we just don’t have the data because the information is not reported to anybody.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2022

“As Wall Street firms take over more nursing homes, quality in those homes has gone down and costs have gone up. Medicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve and expect.”. That ends on my watch,” Biden said. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

HHS is also releasing ownership data for all Medicare-certified home health agencies, the department specified in a Thursday announcement. Federal health care officials had already implemented a similar measure for the nation’s skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). ” This is a developing story.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? Home with a 75 year old mom who can’t really move them? We need that information. This information is so vital.

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