Telehealth Flexibility Extension Helps Hospice and Palliative Care Among Others
According to a recently published article in Hospice News, even after the public health emergency ended, 61% of patients with cancer preferred to receive...
Summer Hospice and Palliative Care Education Highlights
SDAHO is making education for hospice and palliative care training easy for our members this summer. There are several live webinars available!
National Academies of...
Certifying Physician Enrollment or Opt-Out Delayed until June 3
As finalized in the FY2024 Hospice Payment Rate Update Final Rule, physicians who certify hospice services must enroll in or opt-out of Medicare. Originally, the...
Federal Funding for Palliative Care Research
Research in Palliative Care is growing and providing the data needed to establish evidence-based practice for palliative care.  In a recent GeriPal Pod Cast, Drs. Alex...
SDAHO’s Tammy Hatting Lobbies for Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act in...
On Wednesday, April 17, SDAHO’s COO, Tammy Hatting, participated in the Patient Quality of Life Coalition Lobby Day on Capitol Hill in Washington DC....
CMS Proposed Rules Round-Up: SNF, Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities, Hospice
CMS proposes 4.1% payment update for SNFs and revise nursing home enforcement authority in FY 2025
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services March 28...
National Healthcare Decisions Day April 16
In this world, as Benjamin Franklin famously remarked, nothing is certain except death and taxes. That's why, every year on April 16, the day...
Take the CAPC Survey
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) released its first annual Palliative Pulse survey. This survey is designed to hear directly from teams providing specialty palliative...
March 31 Deadline for Hospice and SNF Update of Managing Employees
LeadingAge reminder that effective January 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) published the calendar year (CY) 2024 physician fee schedule (PFS)...
CMS Ends Hospice VBID Demonstration Project
According to Hospice News, “The U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID)...
