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CMS Ramps Up Efforts to Root Out ‘Door Knocker’ Hospice Schemes

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently elaborated on its plans to expand public education campaigns designed to help protect hospice beneficiaries from fraudulent actors in the space. Scammers have also offered individuals hundreds of dollars in exchange for their Medicare identification beneficiary number.

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California Hospice Physician Sues CMS, HHS Over Fraud Allegations

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to fraud allegations that have resulted in licensure and billing privilege revocation. District Court for the Central Division of California to allow for continued Medicare licensure until the fraud dispute is resolved through the U.S. court documents stated.

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‘Upgrading’ the Medicare Hospice Benefit

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The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should consider is retiring the six-month terminal prognosis requirement and allowing for some concurrent care, Wallace and Wladkowski indicated.

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Hospices’ Mythbusting Strategies: ‘It’s Not Brink-of-Death Care’

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Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. We must be better at positioning hospice care as a part of improving their lives, rather than simply being present at death.” The average length of stay among hospice decedents was 95.3

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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

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How can we really partner with them on the talking points to broach these goals-of-care conversations so they understand what is included through Medicare and Medicaid services while still being comfortable in their homes. They can use that energy trying to figure it all out to focus on being present.

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Providers to Lawmakers: Hospice a ‘Huge Value to Medicare’

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Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 Representatives from NHPCO, NAHC, NORC, along with hospice providers VITAS Healthcare and Delaware Hospice, presented the data during the briefing. That’s a huge difference and a huge value to Medicare,” Munevar said. That’s a huge difference and a huge value to Medicare.

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OIG Estimates $42 Million in Improper Medicare Payments for Advance Care Planning

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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently reported the results of its audit of advance care planning (ACP) billing practices among Medicare-certified physicians and other health care providers. Between 2016 to 2019, Medicare payouts for ACP totaled more than $340 million, OIG reported.

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