Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. The agency is also releasing applications for participation for eligible Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) for calendar year 2024. It makes sense.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The auditing environment has heated up in the hospice industry, with inconsistencies reportedly proliferating among the various types of regulatory enforcement activity — particularly those performed by Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers to be unusual.

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Hospice News

APRIL 14, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) currently allows Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit. Based on current trends, risk-based payment systems will likely shape the future of palliative care. The palliative care market is projected to swell during the next decade.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Providers see sustainability and expanded service growth as main draws to participating in the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recent webinar. Providers have also found that payments from Medicare Advantage plans were often delayed, leading to financial pressures. “In

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A main barrier to palliative care growth in the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in is a lack of understanding of these services among beneficiaries, as well as inconsistent service delivery. When the U.S. There’s substantial variation when you look under the hood.” “There’s substantial variation when you look under the hood.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I was asked to speak at a virtual webinar a few weeks ago on this issue, and I wanted to be honest about how difficult the caregiving experience is. We have an inpatient hospice unit at our university, and at times you have to go to families and say, “They’re kind of stable, so Medicare is not going to allow this or pay for this.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make regulatory and legislative changes to instill stronger program integrity safeguards. These cases generally involve allegations that hospices billed Medicare for services for which patients were not eligible.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You have better care outcomes,” Molosky said during the Hospice News 2024 Outlook Webinar. Watch (click here): Hospice News 2024 Outlook Webinar The hospice (and larger health care) workforce has been dwindling even as demand for care rises. Your turnover is less; you have to reinvest less frequently. Culture is everything.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). This start date reflected the timing of CDC’s webinar for its intended release of its 2016 Guideline (2, 3), while the end date preceded a decision by CDC on the final form for its 2022 Revised Opioid Guideline (6, 7).

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

Melanie has previously been on several webinars with us here at HCP and I’m honored to have you on today before we jump into our discussion today, Melanie, can you give our listeners a little snippet about yourself and home care sales? Melissa Mendez ( 00:12 ): Welcome to vision the home care leaders podcast. And that was awesome.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). We’re going to have COVID vaccinations fall in line with much of the other normative practices around vaccination for influenza,” Muir said during a recent Hospice News webinar. I think one of the lasting effects is much more focused on infection control in general,” Lund Person said.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Academy leaders and staff joined NCHPC partners in a meeting with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to discuss the Coalition’s “ Recommendations for Cross-cutting Quality Measures to Include in All Payment Models Involving Care for People with Serious Illness.” Humanities Award – Nicole Robinson, MFA .

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It was a fantastic opportunity for us to understand what this would look like under Medicare. Then we did a larger study in several Medicare Advantage Plans in the VA. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” ” Back then, they were called Medicare Plus Choice. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

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