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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
JANUARY 16, 2023
Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found. These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.
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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.
Hospice News
MAY 7, 2025
California governor Jerry Brown in 2014 signed into law SB 1004, which requires managed care plans associated with Medi-Cal (Californias Medicare) to provide for palliative care programs. Some plans may reimburse enhanced care management, which addresses the social determinants of health (such as access to food and job and housing security).
Hospice News
JANUARY 23, 2025
As we look at diversity, language barriers and being more inclusive, were doing a better job of providing Medicare beneficiaries with more care. For example, we try to buy vehicles for our nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. From a cost standpoint, paying for that mileage is very expensive.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act to the Senate designed to promote greater access to those services among Medicare beneficiaries. Social workers are probably the most positioned for these kinds of conversations. Sunsetting the co-pays could cost Medicare roughly $104.5
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.
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