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Palliative-Primary Care Integration Crucial for MCC Patients

Hospice News

Bruera defines palliative care as person centered care to patients with chronic progressive diseases and their loved ones that is delivered by an interdisciplinary team in settings that include the home, outpatient facilities, and inpatient acute and long-term care facilities. health care expenditures. “I

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3 Strategies for Hospice GIP Compliance

Hospice News

Utilization of the general inpatient level of care (GIP) is frequently the subject of audits by Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs), and avoiding or responding to that scrutiny requires strict compliance to a complex web of rules. If GIP billing exceeds that metric, the hospice must refund those payments to Medicare.

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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News. In the study, researchers present the case of an independent 87-year-old woman with moderate dementia admitted to the hospital with pneumonia.

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CareConnectMD Building Hospice Network as Footprint Grows

Hospice News

We contract with [the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)] as a direct contracting entity, and our job is to coordinate a network of providers, called DCE participants, and then also preferred providers, which would be hospices, home health agencies that can help coordinate the care as the patients move into the home setting.”.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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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. I mean, it’s just such a high risk population in terms of advancing illness and disability, often cognitive in nature.

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How CON Laws Influence Hospice Quality, Program Integrity

Hospice News

Florida is among the states with hospice CON laws in place, while Georgia’s CON programs predominantly pertain to other health care facility types such as hospitals and long-term care facilities. Operating in both regulatory climates has come with challenges around program integrity, Ponder-Stansel indicated.

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act. Is UPAC a new term to you? Let’s start with some background here.