Hospice Care, Medicaid and Quality of Care - Health Care Quality Digest

Fixing A ‘Badly Broken Medical System’: Home Care Leaders Testify Before Congress On Post-Acute Care

Home Health Care

MARCH 11, 2025

The hearing centered on concerns regarding proposed budget cuts to Medicaid and their potential impact on the quality of care patients receive in the future. million seniors and individuals with disabilities, and that care is now on the chopping block. Home-based care isnt just for those actively dying, he said.

Home Care

Home Care Medicaid Rehabilitation Medicare

Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care October 25, 2021 / by Salom Teshale, Kitty Purington, Wendy Fox-Grage, and Mia Antezzo. Comprehensive care coordination. billion on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) per year. Assessment and management of pain and other symptoms.

Medicaid

Medicaid Hospice Care Regulations Integration

Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

MARCH 14, 2022

Strengthening Care for People with Serious Illness Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid. People with complex or life-threatening conditions often need extra support to manage symptoms and make critical decisions about their care and quality of life. March 14, 2022.

Medicaid

Medicaid Rehabilitation Quality Assurance Patient Experience

Future Leader: Brett Ringold, Vice President, A Long Term Companion

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Some of this care will be paid for through Medicaid or privately by families, but funding for home care is a pressing issue that needs to be addressed.

Home Care

Home Care Quality of Care Hospice Care Medicare

CMS is Taking Action to Address Benefit Integrity Issues Related to Hospice Care

Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has an important role to play in ensuring that hospices are providing necessary and critical, high-quality care to our Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life. Unfortunately, hospices are profiting from fraud at the expense of beneficiaries far too often.

Hospice Care

Hospice Care Integration Medicare Medicaid

Voices: Carter Bakkum, Senior Consultant, Data & Analytics, Trella Health

Home Health Care

JANUARY 16, 2025

Hospice agencies evaluating new markets for organic expansion can compare a regions rate of hospice utilization to the national average to identify areas that are already saturated with hospice care. Outside of all of the data you analyze, what qualitative challenges are you hearing from industry leaders?

Medicare

Medicare Integration Hospice Care Quality of Care

Updated Information Gathering Report for Hospice Quality Reporting Program

Briggs Healthcare

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Many Americans rely on hospice care for end-of-life support. million Americans received hospice care, with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) spending $20.9 billion on hospice services (MedPAC, 2021). High quality hospice services are critical to terminally ill patients.

Hospice Care

Hospice Care Quality of Care Integration Medicaid

How States Can Embed Palliative Care in Health Care Reform Initiatives

NASHP

MARCH 15, 2023

Opportunities for State Policymakers State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. Palliative care can be an important component of these strategies.

Medicaid

Medicaid Primary Care Nursing Medicare

Maxim Healthcare Group Splits; HouseWorks Agrees to Buy Greater Boston Home Care

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Ed and his team are extremely well respected and have a strong reputation for delivering high-quality personal care services to seniors across Massachusetts,” Michael Trigilio, CEO of HouseWorks, said in a statement. Residential has managed home health and hospice services for Edward-Elmhurst Health for more than a decade.

Home Care

Home Care Healthcare Hospice Care Nursing

Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. Target Populations That Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services Use data to identify Medicaid enrollees with serious illness.

Medicaid

Medicaid Quality Assurance Hospitals Quality of Care

Hospices in Four States to Receive Extra Scrutiny Over Concerns of Fraud, Waste and Abuse

Briggs Healthcare

JULY 25, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare “Last week, regulators rolled out enhanced oversight for new hospices in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas. The changes, detailed in a 196-page document , went into effect immediately.”

Hospice Care

Hospice Care Regulations Medicare Medicaid

HHS Making Ownership Data for All Medicare-Certified Hospice and Home Health Agencies Publicly Available

Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

For the first time, anyone can now review detailed information on the ownership of more than 6,000 hospices and 11,000 home health agencies certified to participate in the Medicare program on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website.

Medicare

Medicare Nursing Hospice Care Quality of Care

Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. Senate report cited the TV exposé in voicing alarm at the " corporate practice of dentistry in the Medicaid program.” Five years later, a U.S.

Doctors

Doctors Tricare Medicaid Medical Services

Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. Senate report cited the TV exposé in voicing alarm at the " corporate practice of dentistry in the Medicaid program.” Five years later, a U.S.

Doctors

Doctors Tricare Medicaid Medical Services

Health Care Quality Digest

Fixing A ‘Badly Broken Medical System’: Home Care Leaders Testify Before Congress On Post-Acute Care

Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

Future Leader: Brett Ringold, Vice President, A Long Term Companion

CMS is Taking Action to Address Benefit Integrity Issues Related to Hospice Care

Voices: Carter Bakkum, Senior Consultant, Data & Analytics, Trella Health

Updated Information Gathering Report for Hospice Quality Reporting Program

How States Can Embed Palliative Care in Health Care Reform Initiatives

Maxim Healthcare Group Splits; HouseWorks Agrees to Buy Greater Boston Home Care

Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

Hospices in Four States to Receive Extra Scrutiny Over Concerns of Fraud, Waste and Abuse

HHS Making Ownership Data for All Medicare-Certified Hospice and Home Health Agencies Publicly Available

Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

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