Hospice Management Advisor Archives – May 1, 2004
May 1, 2004
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Next new hospice product could be palliative care consulting
Palliative care consulting is much the same as other types of consultations in health care. In general, consultation is a type of service in which one provider seeks the opinion or advice of another provider regarding evaluation or management of a specific problem. -
Hospice Trends: Storytelling rewards both sides of conversation
The older I get, the more sentimental I become. I look at my own children and wonder if they will value my life-defining stories, or whether theyll simply suffer through them, as I have done with some of my parents own stories. -
One in five terminally ill Americans dies in an ICU
Although most Americans say they would prefer a low-tech approach to death, the opposite is happening, with more than 20% of terminally ill patients dying in intensive care, according to an article in the March issue of Critical Care Medicine, the journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. -
Expand your agency by forming partnerships
This is the first of a two-part series that looks at innovative approaches to patient care and expansion of services by home health agencies. This months article describes partnerships that are designed both to increase referral bases and enhance home health services. -
‘Cash & Counseling’ leads to more home care
An evaluation of Arkansas Medicaid Cash & Counseling program, in which enrollees direct their own personal care services, indicates that people in the program are much more likely to receive such services than are those who were eligible for services but had to get them in the usual way. -
HIPAA Q&A
Does the HIPAA security rule prohibit transmission of protected health information (PHI) by e-mail? Are health organizations responsible for the protection of unsolicited e-mails sent by patients? If an employee, other than field staff, works out of his or her home, either full-time or part-time (e.g., during maternity leave, on weekends or evenings, or as part of a telecommuting job description), do the HIPAA security regulations apply? If so, how do we ensure compliance? -
News From the End of Life
CMS tightens rules for processing claims; Upcoming hospice educational events.