Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act would expand utilization of these services by removing Medicare payment barriers faced by both providers and patients. The bill proposes to “wave,” or remove, Medicare beneficiary cost-sharing for advance care planning services. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

While the home setting saves as much as $470 billion per year for the health care industry, Medicare and Medicaid, for the caregiver, the price tag can be a considerable burden — as much as $7,200 per year, or up to 26% of their income. Caregiving is often a very physically and emotionally demanding task lasting for many years.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), the California Black Health Network (CBHN) and the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF). This has contributed to widespread mistrust of the health care system among some communities.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

Gaines is a doctoral candidate in palliative care at the University of Maryland, and Cagle is an associate professor at its School of Social Work. “We Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed HIS as a tool to gauge a patient’s overall care experience.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The nonprofit hospice and home health provider became Medicare certified in 2006, and is operated by Catholic Community Service. Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance payments for patient services are not keeping up with these unprecedented increases in expenses,” Catholic Community Service indicated in the press release.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We’re seeing more and more nurse training programs, more social work training programs, etc., In tandem with these investments is the rise of managed care, such as Medicare Advantage plans and some Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). We’re putting more people out there in the world through these training programs.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. We spoke earlier about Medicare Advantage.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Though operators often feel siloed within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, they are not shielded from the shifting currents in the health care system at large. Addressing the psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients and families — including bereavement care, social work and chaplain services — have long been integral to the hospice model.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 3.1% If enacted, PCHETA would authorize $100 million over the course of five years to support programs designed to bolster clinical education in hospice and palliative care, along with related interdisciplinary professions such as chaplaincy, pharmacy and social work.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

She recently spoke with Hospice News about the industry’s changing environment and the potential to revise aspects of the Medicare benefit, as well as top priorities for her upcomiing term at AAHPM. Do you think there are aspects of the Medicare benefit as it’s currently designed that need to be changed or updated?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) quality measures such as the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) and the Hospice Item Set (HIS). In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. Even more importantly, it’s helping with staff satisfaction.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Though CON regulations are not necessarily an indicator of quality, size or ownership status, they can give lawmakers a window into the relationship between quality and oversight, as well as other variables that impact end-of-life experiences, according to John Cagle, associate professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work. “We

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recently finalized hospice payment rule. Some commenters expressed interest in the role HOPE will play in advancing health equity, including voicing support for the collection of social risk data, including social determinants of health (SDOH) data,” the rule language indicated.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently recognized Bloom as a top performing High-Needs Accountable Care Organization under the agency’s Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model. We have Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles, Medicare Advantage, Medicare fee-for-service.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Social work services : Social services are available for our patients and their families to help them work through end-of-life stress. Social workers also help patients make sure they have end-of-life items completed, such as funeral planning or will writing. . ” Don’t worry; you’re not alone.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. But clinical education will need a much larger boost to ensure a sustainable workforce, according to many providers.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

Quality inequities among special needs, dually-eligible beneficiaries Dually-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries may have a lower likelihood of receiving care from high-quality hospice providers, according to a recent analysis. Consumers need better information on hospice quality.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Insurance companies and Medicare are also starting to recognize the cost savings and improved patient outcomes the clinics can provide. “I To meet growing demand, more outpatient palliative care clinics and programs are cropping up. The patient will then be referred to an outpatient clinic or home-based provider for further care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

Recent evidence indicates that more of these providers are being enrolled in Medicare despite the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) efforts to date on curbing fraud and abuse. In their meetings with legislators, providers made known their policy priorities.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires hospice providers to offer bereavement care to their patients’ families for 13 months after death. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. She recently spoke about her work at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) annual conference. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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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. Family caregivers are among those with some of the greatest unmet bereavement needs, according to a study published in the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. Chicago-based Oak Street Health consists of a network of value-based primary care facilities that serve upwards of 145,000 Medicare beneficiaries across 21 states.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. I have a lot of questions, because I have never worked within end-of-life doula in my 20 years of doing palliative care. Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth? John: I do.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A lot of times we, unfortunately, had to eat a lot of the reimbursement because we had to switch them to a routine level of care, even if they were in our inpatient unit, while our social work team worked on placement issues or they worked on caregiver issues. They worked on things like that.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so that’s why we have a lifetime worth of work ahead of us to figure out what we need to be doing. Or any social determinant of health just means that means the clinician refers to social work. Have Medicare recognize social health as an important topic that is actually reimbursable in terms of services.

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NHPCO

JULY 11, 2024

Dr. Harper’s lifelong leadership had profound and lasting positives impact across social work; hospice care; and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). Dr. Harper’s advocacy also impacted hospice care domestically, particularly in her pivotal role in integrating hospice care benefits into Medicare.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As a member of the Hospice interdisciplinary team, the primary focus of the Social Worker is to respond to the emotional and psychological needs of the patients, their families, and hospice staff. The Social Worker provides concrete social work services and actively participates in developing patient/family care plans.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

That year Medicare determined that dying was no longer a diagnosis that warranted a hospital admission. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care. In 1988 they received their license from the NY Dept of Health and became eligible for reimbursement through Medicare. In 1986 Ann and her husband, the late Dr. C.

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Most hospice care programs provide services such as nursing care, social work services, chaplain services, and bereavement counseling. Hospice care is typically covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance plans. Hospice care is covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Hospice is a vastly underused Medicare benefit in the United States. The Role of Social Work in Hospice. Volunteers to provide companionship to the patient and relief to the family caregiver. Grief support. 24/7 triage support for after-hours urgent issues. Are there things I want to accomplish before I die?

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