Home Health & Hospice Week
Hospice Video Could Increase Benefit Access, Study Says
There may be a way to educate potential hospice patients about the benefit, even though physicians often feel uncomfortable discussing the topic. A new Harvard Medical School study shows that after watching a six-minute video about hospice, patients with advanced cancer were more likely to use hospice services before they died (85.2 percent vs 63.6 percent) and had longer lengths of stay (median of 12 days vs 3 days), says a study published June 8 in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer. Caregivers assigned to view the video were more likely to prefer hospice for their loved ones (94.4 percent vs 65.4 percent) and were less likely to endorse that hospice is only about death (0.0 percent vs 23.1 percent), says the study’s abstract at https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cncr.32967.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- COVID-19:
New PPP Law Provides More Flexibility
Bonus and hazard pay count toward 60% payroll target, interim final rule clarifies. Another week [...] - Legislation:
PPP Borrowers Narrowly Avoid Forgiveness Cliff
Legality of the change is still fuzzy, but providers will take it. The feds might [...] - Medicaid:
Medicaid Providers To Finally See Some CARES Act Help
Can you abide by the two conditions? Medicaid home care providers left out of Provider [...] - Review Choice Demonstration:
Yep: RCD 'Pause' Will End With 100% Postpay Review
But review schedule will consider burden, CMS says. Home health agencies hoping for a reprieve [...] - Compliance:
OIG, HH Chain Duke It Out Over Audited Claims
Ten denied claims lead to $2.1M overpayment. The latest improper payment rate for fee-for-service Medicare [...] - Industry Note:
Consider These New Survey Priorities
Routine surveys are back on deck. Back in March, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced that [...] - Industry Note:
HOPE Tool Alpha Testing Still On Schedule For Fall
COVID-19 isn’t derailing the development of Medicare’s Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation assessment tool. The Centers [...] - Industry Note:
Couple Uses Home Health Medicaid Fraud Proceeds For Jet, Jewelry And More
Two Medicaid fraud cases focus on home health services. Case #1: Married couple Latisha Harron [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice Video Could Increase Benefit Access, Study Says
There may be a way to educate potential hospice patients about the benefit, even though [...] - Industry Note:
If OCR Investigator Calls, Don't Take Their Word For It
Watch out for yet another scam to swipe your patients’ private info. An individual posing [...]
