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. For instance, patients being enrolled who are not eligible for hospice may eventually be prohibited from electing these services in the future.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
This bill will make it easier for hospice providers by extending access to telehealth as a way for them to continue offering critical care and to monitor the health of their patients. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented telehealth recertifications on an emergency basis during the pandemic.
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Daily Nurse
DECEMBER 2, 2024
The inevitable result will be further burnout and attrition, which will have a negative impact on patient care. If nurses are to fulfill their primary mission of caring for patients amid continued short-staffing and growing demand for care , they desperately need help. That remains just as true today.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a memo to accreditation bodies and state agencies advising surveyors to watch out for potential hospice fraud. Some of these providers engaged in referral kickback schemes, enrolled patients who were not eligible for hospice and lied to them about being terminally ill.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) is the system through which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services determines payment rates for services provided by physicians and other healthcare professionals. This year’s Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule was released last Friday (Nov.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The research examined Medicare hospice beneficiary data including timely start of care following patient admission, disenrollment and live discharge rates, volume of patient visits, length of stay and billing claim amounts. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Care Compare site. “CMS,
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.
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