Two recent settlements highlight important Medicare hospice program requirements and the need to remain vigilant about compliance with Medicare program rules. The first settlement involved Charles ...

Local hospice providers are making sure patients spend their final days with loved ones even as the coronavirus pandemic prompts changes to visitation rules. “Our staff is amazing and they never ...

I heard the rules recently changed related to hospice. Do you know what will be included? CMS recently finalized regulations impacting the relationship between hospice and skilled nursing facilities, ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finalized three rules for hospice care, inpatient psychiatric facilities and inpatient rehabilitation facilities. The 2023 hospice payment update is ...

A little over three years ago, my husband of 45 years and the 84th governor of Connecticut, William A. O’Neill, passed away following a long battle with emphysema. Bill received excellent health care ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - African Americans are less likely than whites to seek end-of-life hospice care -- and a new study suggests that hospice admission criteria may be partially to blame. The ...

House Bill 286, which became effective March 20, 2019, permits a hospice care program (HCP) with inpatient facilities or units to admit non-hospice palliative care patients (NHPCPs) to the inpatient ...

Two for-profit hospice providers with operations in Southeast Michigan have paid settlements to the federal government in connection with their billing practices. Dallas-based Odyssey Healthcare Inc. ...

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