Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 5, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On March 31, 2023, CMS posted FY2024 Hospice Payment Rate Update Proposed Rule Fact Sheet. This rule also proposes conforming regulations text changes related to the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. QM Reports now include two measures based on Fiscal Year 2018 and 2019 Medicare claims data: the Hospice Care Index (HCI) and Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life (HVLDL).

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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. Some of these hospices obtained licenses only to sell them to other entrepreneurs. Some did both.

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Briggs Healthcare

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. It’s never fun to share a negative article about healthcare providers but it’s important for the industry to be aware of what’s “out there” in the media. Forty years on, half of all Americans die in hospice care.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Arizona’s End of Life and Advanced Care Planning benefit is referenced in its MCO contracts and further described in state regulations. Adults may receive benefits along with curative care until they choose to receive hospice. Children may access services along with both curative and hospice care.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 6, 2023

trillion in funding across a range of domestic initiatives, including certain appropriations to healthcare and related programs. The Act extends certain flexibilities for Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth services through December 31, 2024. Recertification of Eligibility for Hospice Care. Telehealth.

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KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. The FTC would not say how much market consolidation is too much or whether it plans to step up scrutiny of health care mergers and acquisitions.

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