Home Health & Hospice Week
Hospice Doesn't Raise LTC Costs, Study Says
A new study boosts hospices’ efforts to show their benefit in the long-term care setting.
“Use of hospice services does not increase care costs in the last six months of life for long-stay nursing homes residents, according to an analysis conducted by researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute,” says an IU release. “Avoidance of costly hospitalization and subsequent post-acute care in the nursing home appears to offset hospice services costs, even when hospice services are provided over a prolonged period of time according to the study of 2,510 long stay nursing home decedents, a third of whom received hospice services.”
“An active debate about length of stay, reimbursement and other aspects of Medicare and Medicaid payment reform is underway,” says lead researcher and physician Kathleen Unroe, a professorat the IU School of Medicine. “Our study provides data relevant to the evolving policy landscape surrounding hospice care.”
See the study’s abstract at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27059000.
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