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Hospice News
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Palliative care providers have explored diverse routes to improve quality and access to their services in 2024. Below are five under-the-radar stories that, while important, didnt make our most read this year. SMI patients with serious physical illnesses often have less access to appropriate medical care and mental health services.
Hospice News
APRIL 16, 2025
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) include five areas of social determinants of health: food and housing insecurity, transportation needs, utility difficulties and interpersonal safety. Screening tools developed by the U.S. Does palliative care intersect with social determinants of health? Photo by TBAR Productions.
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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Our philosophy is that palliative care as a whole should be kind of a blanket that goes over all of those things and helps coordinate the care that those patients need across all of those settings, no matter which specialists they’re seeing or which which Medicare defined service line they’re a part of, Walker told Palliative Care News.
Hospice News
MARCH 4, 2025
The value-based agreement contracts Thyme Care with Humana Medicare Advantage plans, giving them access to their beneficiaries. Humana Medicare Advantage members who are eligible for the program in Michigan, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and New Jersey may now receive services from Thyme Care.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a nearly 2.9% To put it bluntly, Medicare plans to pay us less while costs go up. Since 1992, Medicare payment has been made under the PFS for the services of physicians and other billing professionals. Industry organizations were quick to denounce the pay cut. “To
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
That model aligns to a large degree with that used within the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment demonstration from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, according to study author and research scientist Dr. Greg Sachs with the Indiana University Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
The program operates under WesleyLifes hospice umbrella, with a dedicated nurse practitioner and social worker leading patient care. Our nurse practitioner and social worker collaborate with each patients primary care physician and specialists to ensure seamless communication and coordination. Both are hospital- and clinic-based.
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