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Husch Blackwell LLP

Perspectives on End of Life Care: An Exploration of Its Past, Present and Future - A Conversation with Dr. Janet Bull

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As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Medicare hospice benefit, we stand at an important reflection point to evaluate end-of-life care and map its future. In this new series, we gather leaders and thinkers from a range...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Annual DDE Recertification Due 9/30 (And Other DDE Pitfalls)

Direct Data Entry (DDE) access is a company’s revenue lifeline: without it, hospices cannot comply with NOE filing requirements or submit claims for payment. Every hospice has DDE login rights, but many fail to recognize (and...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

It’s Important to Choose Where Hospice Is Provided

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It is understandable but unfortunate that family members frequently hesitate to broach the subject of end of life care. Instead of avoiding the subject, have a sensitive and frank discussion of hospice as a vehicle for...more

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Families turn to courts to protect difficult end-of-life choices

Many hospitals and doctors rightly have campaigned to get more patients to provide information in advance about their end-of-life care choices, but doesn’t that mean that the choices when made should be respected? And if...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Winds of Change Blowing Across the Hospice Landscape

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Recent Medicare developments indicate that end-of-life health care providers can expect to face continuing change in an already dynamic sector. These latest turns are part of an ongoing trend toward redefining hospice and...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

CMS Proposes to Establish Separate Payment for End of Life Planning Services

On July 8, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that updates payment rates and related reimbursement and quality policies for physician services furnished under the Medicare...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

AMA To Recommend Physicians Be Paid For End-Of-Life Planning

Brace yourself for a reprise of the death panel debate of 2009. The AMA will soon formally recommend to CMS that physicians be paid—or “reimbursed” in health care-speak—for talking with Medicare patients and their families...more

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