How Long Will Medicare Pay for Hospice?
Facing death in the family is challenging enough. Money shouldn’t be another stressor during the process. The unfortunate truth is…
Medicare Gives Consumers a New Hospice Rating System
Hospice Care Index: A Perfect 10 In August 2022, Medicare included a new overall quality measure for Hospice Care Compare:…
Differences Between Grief and Depression
Sooner or later, most of us will suffer deep grief over the death of someone we love. Grieving is a…
1800HOSPICE Celebrates Home Care and Hospice Month
Each November, the home care and hospice community honors the millions of nurses, home care aides, therapists, and social workers…
Music Therapy in Hospice
The power of music is very real. It can change our mood, how we act, and even the way we…
The Dangers of Gifts from Hospices to Doctors
MCS Advantage has been ordered to pay $4.2 million in fines for breaking the rules on gift-giving in healthcare. Hospice…
Hospice, Dementia, and Quality of Life. Now We Know.
In 1983, Medicare first designed the hospice benefit around the needs of people with cancer. Over the years, hospice increasingly…
What Hospice Pays For
Without proper support, the time in which families need hospice can be stressful, with multiple unusual challenges that will need…
Opioids May Improve Survival for Hospice Patients
It is well established that hospice correlates with survival improved by days to months among the subset of patients who…
Medicare Gives Hospice a Larger Pay Raise than Expected, but Less than Needed
On July 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a final rule giving hospice a 3.8% pay…
