Hospice News
JUNE 5, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced a series of new regulations to combat fraud during the past two years. A key component of the enhanced oversight includes a medical review of claims before a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) will pay them. Other agencies such as the FBI and the U.S.
Hospice News
JULY 16, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires hospices to offer bereavement care for a minimum of 13 months following a patient’s death. Was informed consent given? It’s going to take a long time to restore not just the individuals’ trust who have experienced this firsthand, but also the public’s.
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GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. We’re very fortunate to have Medicare chronic care management, which is a wonderful resource that really is very goal driven, incorporating things like patient priorities, care and what matters most.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
People diagnosed in the past 12 months, for example, so our… I think this was published in JAMA Oncology because it’s novel and we don’t have a lot of information about prevalence, but our estimates weren’t particularly precise because of our small sample sizes.
GeriPal
MARCH 9, 2023
If we can get on a path that is a Federal path, where it’s legal, I also can see a world where Medicaid pays for this, where Medicare pays for this, where insurance companies pay for this, in a way that makes it viable for many more people, is my hope.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Thus, we envision creating an ethics-based, education-focused informed consent process that allows patients to weigh treatment risks versus potential benefits collaboratively to enhance opioid prescribing safety (165).
GeriPal
JULY 13, 2023
And so Ruth highlighted one of the features of this pragmatic trial that was different than the outpatient trial was that we didn’t need to consent patients and families for participation in this study. And so that’s how we were able to proceed with the study under this waiver of consent. I think you had to be age over 55.
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