An Alternative to Consolidations: Key Considerations for Management Services Organizations
What Does It Mean? Understanding the Practical Implications of the New 36-Month Rule for Hospices
Hospice Innovators: A Conversation with Jaysen Roa, President and CEO of Avow Hospice
Strategic Restructuring for the Future, Putting a Plan Into Action: A Conversation With Gloria Brooks on Building End-of-Life Partnerships
Perspectives on End of Life Care: An Exploration of Its Past, Present and Future - A Conversation with Dr. Janet Bull
On July 21, 2020, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced settlement of a patient complaint with the Prince George’s Hospital Center of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) that enforces a patient’s right to...more
The Husch Blackwell Hospice Team has been receiving reports from hospices throughout the country that nursing facilities are prohibiting hospice workers from entering the facility to provide essential end-of-life care to...more
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
Winds of Change Blowing Across the Hospice Landscape - 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...more
This article will provide an outline of some of the most significant points for hospitals to use when confronted with a formal government investigation under the Criminal or Civil False Claims Act. As noted below, you should...more
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
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
In this issue: - Make Me a Channel of Your Peace - CMS Signals Renewed Focus on Advance Directives and Residents’ Rights to Determine End-of-Life Care An excerpt from "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace" ...more