Hospice News
APRIL 10, 2024
The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. Wladkowski, the Larry and Patty Benz Professor and an associate professor of social work at Bowling Green State University. This is according to a recent editorial in Health Affairs by Cara L.
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
JANUARY 16, 2023
They found a 95% increase in hospice or palliative utilization among veterans served by VA providers participating in the agency’s Social Work Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”. The average age among the veterans was about 65.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Groups of physicians, hospitals and other health care providers voluntarily join forces in ACOs, which are designed to offer high-quality, coordinated care to Medicare patients. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) payment model ACO Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH).
Hospice News
JUNE 21, 2023
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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2.8%
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
From a business perspective, patient populations who experienced longer lengths of stay boosted hospice margins by as much as 20% during 2016, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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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