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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) doesn't call it a rate cut. However, the net result of the proposed hospice wage index elimination over the next three years is a reduction in reimbursement.
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Although the proposed wage index reductions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will vary from county to county and state to state, hospice experts agree that all hospices will be affected.
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The 22 laptops were working fine. Data were being entered, nurses were visiting patients, and everyone was thrilled with the newly installed electronic health record system. At least that's what everyone believed until nurses started to report that data they transmitted the night before weren't showing up in the records.
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When the hospice nurses' laptops at the St. John Home Health and Hospice in Tulsa, OK, stopped synchronizing with the agency's server, agency management and the software vendor worked through the weekend to identify and solve the problem.
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When 78 million baby boomers reach age 65 in 2011, they will depend upon a health care work force that is too small and unprepared to meet their needs, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine.
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Hospice managers and staff members have become accustomed to looking for ways to streamline services and lower costs, but the proposed three-year reductions in the wage index planned by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will add an extra challenge for managers.
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Your information technology emergency plan needs to address the types of problems you are most likely to encounter
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At what price is cure a goal? And what price does hope carry?
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Patient care providers should take care to let patients express what their hopes are and to reframe those hopes, gently, with truth, says Vincent Guss Jr., MDiv, chaplain at Falcons Landing Air Force Retired Officers Community in Potomac Falls, VA.
