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Hospice News
MARCH 7, 2025
The future of palliative care payment is reaching an uncertain, but potentially promising time in the Medicare landscape. The Alliance has been looking at additional opportunities to provide sustainable reimbursement for palliative care, whether that is through concurrent care approaches or something like a Medicare Care Choices 2.0
Hospice News
JANUARY 31, 2025
However, some organizations have found success with disease-specific programs reimbursed through the Medicare Hospice Benefit. These are essentially hospice programs that are adapted to these particular populations, and they can be paid for via the Medicare benefit.
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Hospice News
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The Chicago-based Elea Institute is seeking to improve public awareness of hospice and palliative care as well as convene discussions about ways to rethink the Medicare benefit. For example, the Medicare Hospice Benefit was initially designed in the 1970s and 80s to serve the needs of cancer patients.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently elaborated on its plans to expand public education campaigns designed to help protect hospice beneficiaries from fraudulent actors in the space. Scammers have also offered individuals hundreds of dollars in exchange for their Medicare identification beneficiary number.
Hospice News
APRIL 10, 2024
The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should consider is retiring the six-month terminal prognosis requirement and allowing for some concurrent care, Wallace and Wladkowski indicated.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Fraudsters misspend millions of Medicare dollars annually, though the actual hospice-specific amounts are difficult to determine, regulators previously told Hospice News. In the end, Medicare fraud costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year. Each dollar lost to fraud takes away resources intended for people with Medicare.”
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Growth in the number of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries will likely overtake that for traditional Medicare in 2025, according to new estimates from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018.
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